Workshop

This research workshop is the tenth in a series of quarterly workshops organized by the SP-SP Center. The aim of the workshops is to bring together researchers in the Barcelona area to discuss different topics in applied microeconomics. This will be a special edition with the participation of some researches outside the Barcelona area. This edition focuses on the Telecoms market; we have selected four papers dealing with the impact of termination rates on retail competition and the Spanish telecoms market.

Program

9:30-10:30	Foreclosing Competition through Access Charges and Price Discrimination  (PDF, 402 Kb) Patrick REY (TSE, GREMAQ and IDEI) and Ángel L. LÓPEZ (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) Discussant: Albert BANAL-ESTANOL (City University London) See presentation  (PDF, 88 Kb)
10:30-11:30	A retail benchmarking approach to efficient two-way access pricing: termination-based price discrimination with elastic subscription demand  (PDF, 246 Kb) Sjaak HURKENS (CSIC-IAE and SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) and Doh-Shin JEON (TSE, SP-SP Center, IESE Business School and UPF) See presentation  (PDF, 252 Kb)   Discussant:Joan CALZADA (Universitat de Barcelona, IREA)
11:30-12:00	Coffee break
12:00-13:00	Testing the Waterbed Effect in Mobile Telephony  (PDF, 362 Kb) Tommaso VALLETTI (Imperial College Business School) and Christos GENAKOS (University of Cambridge) See presentation  (PDF, 567 Kb) Discussant:Francesc TRILLAS (UAB) See presentation  (PDF, 35 Kb)
13:00-14:15	Report: Competition and Regulation in the Spanish Telecoms Market Ángel L. LÓPEZ (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) Discussants:Jordi GUAL (La Caixa and IESE Business School) and Íñigo HERGUERA (CMT) See presentation  (PDF, 530 Kb)
14:15	Lunch

Coordinators

Prof. Xavier Vives
Professor of Economics and Financial Management
Academic Director of the Public-Private Sector Research Center
IESE Business School

Ángel Luis López
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SP-SP Research Center, IESE Business School

SP-SP Center

The Public-Private Sector Research Center was created in October of 2001. Its mission is to foster cooperation between the private sector and public administrations, as well as the exchange of ideas and initiatives, through dialogue, research and education.

The Center is sponsored by the following organizations: Accenture, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Caixa Manresa, Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya, Diputació de Barcelona, Fundació AGBAR, Garrigues, Departament d'Economia i Finances de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Mediapro, Microsoft, Sanofi-Aventis, T-Systems and VidaCaixa.