Day 1 (June 27, 2013)
10:30 - 12:30 - Session I
Reflections upon the past and the future of merger control
- Beatriz de Guindos Talavera (Deputy Director, CNC) (slides)
- Roberto Chieppa (Secretary General, AGCM) (slides)
- Martin Cave (Deputy Chairman, UK Competition Commission) (slides)
14:00 - 16:00 - Session II
Unilateral effects
14:00 - 15:00 - I° Part: Merger simulations and UPP in theory
- Joseph Farrell (University of California and Bates White) (slides)
- Thibaud Vergé (CREST-LEI) (slides)
- Marc Ivaldi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Toulouse) (slides)
15:00 - 16:30 - II° Part: Merger simulations and UPP tests in practice
- Chris Walters (Chief Economist, OFT) (slides)
- Andrea Pezzoli (Chief Economist, AGCM) (slides)
17:00 - 19.00 - Session III
Coordinated effects
- Leslie M. Marx (Duke University) (slides)
- Marc Ivaldi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Toulouse) (slides)
- Giulio Federico (DG Comp - European Commission) (slides)
- Joseph Farrell (University of California and Bates White) (slides)
Day 2 (June 28, 2013)
9:30 - 11:00 - Session IV
Non-horizontal Mergers
- Patrick Rey (University Toulouse I) (slides)
- Dennis Carlton (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, David McDaniel Keller) (slides)
- Per Hellström (Head of Unit, Merger Energy and Environment, DG Comp, EC) (slides)
11:30 - 13:30 - Session V
The Ex-Post evaluation of the merger control decisions
- Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin & Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics) (slides)
- Daniel Hosken (Deputy Assistant Director for the Office of Applied Research and Outreach in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics) (slides)
- Robin Finer (Director of Economic Analysis at the UK Competition Commission) (slides)
- Stephen Davies (University of East Anglia, Norwich) (slides, paper)
15:00 - 16:30 - Session VI
Remedies in mergers
- Bruce Lyons (University of East Anglia) (slides)
- John Ratliff (Partner, Wilmerhale) (slides, paper)
