Conference on the Economics of

Information and Communication Technologies

Paris, October 5-6, 2012

Conference sponsored by the Innovation and Regulation Chair
http://innovation-regulation2.telecom-paristech.fr/?lang=en/

Conference Venue: Telecom ParisTech, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, Metro Corvisart (line 7)
Getting there

Please, register at the website to participate:
http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/index.php?id=2781

Conference programme
Conference program as pdf

Friday, October 5

9:00-9:30 Registration (main hall)

9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 1 (Room: B310); Chair: Tommaso VALLETTI

Joel WALDFOGEL (University of Minnesota)

And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and the Quality of New Recorded Music

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Room: E200)

11:00-13:00 Parallel Sessions 1

1a (Room: B310): ICT and Productivity Chair: Patrick WAELBROECK Ana RINCON (NIESR), Michela VECCHI (Middlesex University Business School) and Francesco VENTURINI* (University of Perugia) Sources of ICT Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Productivity Performance Vahagn JERBASHIAN* and Anna KOCHANOVA (CERGE-EI) The Impact of Telecommunications Technologies on Competition in Services and Goods Markets: Empirical Evidence Justus BARON (CERNA-Ecole des Mines) and Julia SCHMIDT* (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) Technological Standardization, Endogenous Productivity and Transitory Dynamics

1b (Room: B312): Platforms I Chair: Patrick REY Anna D’ANNUNZIO* (Toulouse School of Economics) Program Quality and Exclusive Provision David HENRIQUES* (Nova School of Business and Economics) How Does Advertising Influence Media Competition? A Two-Sided Market Perspective Markus REISINGER (Otto Beisheim School of Management), Ludwig RESSNER, Richard SCHMIDTKE (University of Munich) and Tim Paul THOMES* (Otto Beisheim School of Management) Competition and Provision of Complementary Open Source Software

13:00-2:00 Lunch Break (Room: E200)

2:00-4:00 Parallel Sessions 2

2a (Room: B310): Net Neutrality Chair: Yossi SPIEGEL Bruno JULLIEN and Wilfried SAND-ZANTMAN* (Toulouse School of Economics) Congestion Pricing and Net Neutrality Jay-Pil CHOI (University of New South Wales & Michigan State University), Doh-Shin JEON* (Toulouse School of Economics) and Byung-Cheol Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology) Internet Interconnection and Network Neutrality Edmond BARANES* (University of Montpellier) The Interplay Between Network Investment and Content Quality in the Internet

2b (Room: B312): Empirical Studies of Platform Markets Chair: Frank VERBOVEN Pedro PEREIRA* (AdC & CEFAGE), Tiago Ribeiro (Indera & CENSOC) and João Vareda (AdC & CEFAGE) Delineating Markets for Bundles with Consumer Level Data: The Case of Triple-Play Pauline AFFELDT (E.CA Economics), Lapo FILISTRUCCHI* (CentER, TILEC, Tilburg University & University of Florence) and Tobias KLEIN (CentER, TILEC, Tilburg University) Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets Paul BELLEFLAMME*, Thomas LAMBERT (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Armin SCHWIENBACHER (Université Lille Nord de France – SKEMA Business School) Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break (Room: E200)

4:30-6:30 Parallel Sessions 3

3a (Room: B310): Platforms II Chair: Bruno JULLIEN Hanna HALABURDA (Harvard Business School) and Yaron YEHEZKEL* (Tel Aviv University) The Role of Beliefs in Platform Competition André VEIGA* (Toulouse School of Economics) and Glen WEYL (University of Chicago) Multidimensional Product Design Steffen HOERNIG* (Nova School of Business and Economics) Why Mobile Networks Prefer High Termination Rates: An Exploration of Strategic Delegation

3b (Room: B312): Empirical Studies: Investments Chair: Philippe FEVRIER Harald GRUBER* (European Investment Bank) and Pantelis KOUTROUMPIS (Imperial College London) Competition enhancing regulation and diffusion of innovation: the case of broadband networks Mattia NARDOTTO* (Telecom ParisTech & University of Cologne), Tommaso VALLETTI (Imperial College & Telecom ParisTech) and Frank VERBOVEN (University of Leuven) Unbundling the Incumbent: Evidence from UK Broadband Laura NURSKI* (University of Leuven) Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and Price Discrimination: An empirical study of the UK

8:00 Conference Dinner (for speakers and chair persons) at Restaurant Le Zyriab by Nouda (Institut du Monde Arabe)

(http://www.noura.com/traiteur-restaurants-libanais-paris/le-zyriab.html)

Saturday, October 6

9:00-11:00 Parallel Sessions 4

4a (Room: B310): Networks and Regulation Chair: Thibaud VERGE Carlo CAMBINI (Politecnico di Torino) and Yossi SPIEGEL* (Tel Aviv University) Investment and capital structure of partially private regulated firms Marc BOURREAU (Telecom ParisTech), Carlo CAMBINI* (Politecnico di Torino) and Steffen HOERNIG (Nova School of Business and Economics) Geographical Access Rules and Investment Frago KOURANDI* (Telecom ParisTech), Jan KRAMER (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Tommaso VALLETTI (Imperial College & Telecom ParisTech) Exclusivity Contracts and Internet Fragmentation

4b (Room: B312): Ecommerce and Internet Economics Chair: Philippe GAGNEPAIN Andrea POZZI* (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) Who is Hurt by E-commerce? Crowding Out and Business Stealing in Online Grocery Itai ATER* (Tel Aviv University) and Eugene ORLOV (Compass Lexecon) The Effect of the Internet on Product Quality in the Airline Industry Timo BOPPART* and Kevin STAUB (University of Zurich) Online Accessibility of Academic Articles and the Diversity of Economics

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break (Room: E200)

11:30-12:30 Keynote Lecture 2 (Room B310); Chair: Marc BOURREAU

Martin PEITZ (University of Mannheim)

Advertising in Media Markets