2000 – Mergers and Competition
Program
Friday, June 9
10.00 - 10.50 GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN and Thomas Holmes: Do Mergers Lead to Monopoly in the Long Run? Results from the Dominant Firm Model
Discussant: Jim Levinsohn
10.50 - 11.40 Sven-Olof Fridolfsson and JOHAN STENNEK: Why Mergers Reduce Profits, and Raise Share Prices
Discussant: Thomas Holmes
11.40 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 12.50 PEHR-JOHAN NORBÄCK and Lars Persson: Privatization and Foreign Competition
Discussant: Henrik Braconier
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.50 Mergers in Relation to Other Business Strategies
Chair: Henrik Horn
14.50 - 15.40 DAN KOVENOCK and Lars Persson: Mergers and Entry
Discussant: Mats Bergman
16.00 - 16.50 VOLKER NOCKE: Monopolisation and Industry Structure
Discussant: Ariel Pakes
15.40 - 16.00 Coffee break
14.00 - 14.50 KJELL-ERIK LOMMERUD, Odd Straume and Lars Sørgard: The Profitability of Merger in a Unionized Oligopoly
Discussant: Henrik Horn
18.00 - 21.30 Boat trip with dinner
Saturday, June 10
10.00 - 10.50 JONAS BJÖRNERSTEDT and Johan Stennek: Bilateral Oligopoly
Discussant: Jay Pil Choi
10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 - 12.00 SANG-SEUNG YI and Jay Pil Choi: An Equilibrium Model of Investment-Reducing Vertical Integration
Discussant: Ramon Fauli-Oller
12.00 - 13.10 Lunch
13.10 - 16.00 Merger Control
Chair: Frank Verboven
13.10 - 14.00 JONAS HÄCKNER: Market Delineation and Product Differentiation
Discussant: Roderick Meiklejohn
14.00 - 14.50 Ramon Fauli-Oller and JOEL SANDONIS: To Merge or to License: Implications for Competition Policy
Discussant: Lars Hendrik Roeller
14.50 - 15.10 Coffee break
15.10 - 16.00 LUKE FROEB: A Merger Homotopy for Bertrand Competition
Discussant: Frank Verboven
18.00 Dinner