SP-SP - Public-Private Sector Research Center
Research to improve communication between businesses and public administration

Upcoming Seminars 

To be announced / Barcelona
Paper: "Composition of Electricity Generation Portfolios, Pivotal Dynamics and Market Prices  (PDF, 451 Kb) "
Presenter: Albert Banal-Estanol (UPF and City University London) 

March 24, 2009 / Barcelona
Paper: “Diffusion with Dueling Platforms: Technology Spillovers in the Cable-Telco Broadband Race”
Speaker: Glenn Woroch (University of California, Berkeley, and Haas Business School)

Past Seminars

December 17, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Organizations and trade  (PDF, 176 Kb) "
Presenter: Pol Antràs (Department of Economics, Harvard University)

November 25, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Mentalizing in games and markets: a neuroeconomic perspective  (PDF, 2790 Kb) "
Presenter: Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology and CEPR) 

November 18, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Personal Influence: Social Context and Political Competition  (PDF, 386 Kb) "
Presenter: Andrea Mattozzi (California Institute of Technology)

November 11, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "' >Lessonsfrom Financial Panics: The 1907 Bankers' Panic  (PDF, 162 Kb) "
Presenter: Miguel Cantillo (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School)

November 4, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Vertical integration, collusion and tariffs  (PDF, 376 Kb) "
Presenter: Pedro Mendi (Universidad de Navarra)

October 21, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Securitization, Disclosure and Liquidity  (PDF, 427 Kb) "
Presenter: Marco Pagano (University of Napoli)

October 7, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Platform Competition, Compatibility and Social Efficiency  (PDF, 495 Kb) "
Presenter: Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda (Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and SP-SP Research Center, IESE Business School)

September 30, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "IESE Report on the Spanish Telecoms Market in 2007"
  (PDF, 776 Kb) Presenter: Ángel Luis López (Postdoctoral Fellow, SP-SP Research Center, IESE Business School)

September 15, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: “IESE Report on the Spanish Energy Market in 2007”
Presenters: Xavier Vives (IESE Business  School), Giulio Federico (IESE Business  School and CRA International) and Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

September 9, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "The Impact of the Introduction of Digital TV Regulation on the Spanish Local Television Market"
Presenter: Ricard Gil (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Cruz)

June 10, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects  (PDF, 325 Kb) "
Presenter: Luís Cabral (Stern School of Business New York University)

May 20, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "An Out-of-Sample Test of the CAPM  (PDF, 218 Kb) " 
Presenter: Miguel Cantillo (Research Fellow, Centro SP-SP, IESE Business School)

May 6, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI  (PDF, 339 Kb) "
Presenter: Philip Schmidt-Dengler (Lecturer, Department of Economics, London School of Economics)

April 29, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Industry Characteristics and Anti-competitive Behavior: Evidence from the EU  (PDF, 233 Kb) "
Presenter: Núria Mas (Research fellow, Centro SP-SP, IESE Business School)

April 22, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Preferred Suppliers and Vertical Integration in Auction Markets  (PDF, 234 Kb) "
Presenter: Roberto Burguet, Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC), Campus UAB

April 15, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing  (PDF, 327 Kb) "
Presenter: Sjaak Hurkens, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC

April 8, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion”
Presenter: Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Associate Professor of Economic, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
See presentation  (PPT, 968 Kb)

April 1, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Word of Mouth and Recommender Systems: A Theory of the Long Tail  (PDF, 256 Kb) "
Presenter: Andres Hervas-Drane, (Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge)

March 25, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Advertising for Attention in a Consumer Search Model  (PDF, 230 Kb) "
Presenter: José Luis Moraga (Department of Economics, University of Groningen)

March 12, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Corporate Control in the Market for News, Tunneling Problems and Corruption  (PDF, 304 Kb) "
Presenter: Ana Paula Cusolito (Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

March 4, 2008 / Barcelona
Paper: "Collusive Networks in Market Sharing Agreements in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority  (PDF, 233 Kb) "
Presenter: Flavia Roldán (Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)

December 11, 2007 / Barcelona
Paper: “Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections  (PDF, 369 Kb) "
Presenter: Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)

December 4, 2007 / Barcelona
Paper: “Dynamic Competition in Telecom Networks Under the Receiver Party Pays Principle  (PDF, 286 Kb) ”
Presenter: Ángel Luis López (Postdoctoral Research fellow, Centro SP-SP, IESE Business School)
See presentation

November 27, 2007 / Barcelona
Paper: “Multilateral Trade Liberalization, Exports and Technology Upgrading”
Presenter: Paula Bustos (University Pompeu Fabra – CREI)

November 13, 2007 / Barcelona
Paper: “Interconnection among academic journal platforms: multilateral versus bilateral interconnection  (PDF, 297 Kb) ”
Presenter: Doh-Shin Jeon (University Pompeu Fabra, SP-SP)
See presentation  (PPT, 158 Kb)

October 23, 2007 / Barcelona
Paper: “Voluntary Certification Standards”
Presenter: Ken Corts (Associate Professor of Business Economics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)