Regulation and Competition Seminar Series
Students in the Competition and Market Regulation Program have a wealth of opportunities to complement their coursework with conferences and seminars in their field of specialization. Chief among these is the Regulation and Competition Seminar Series, which is organized by the Department of Economics and Business of the UPF, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT), and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
These seminars feature academics, regulators, and practitioners who discuss specific regulatory and competitive issues. Specialists at the forefront of their field are invited to present their research in a rigorous but non-technical manner. In addition to giving students a variety of perspectives on regulatory issues, it also gives them an opportunity to network with top professionals in the industry.
2012 Barcelona GSE Regulation and Competition Seminars
Seminars in this series are also posted in the Barcelona GSE Events Calendar, which you can view on the web or by subscribing to the RSS feed.
Adina Claici, Chief Economist Team, European Commission (DG Competition)
"Economic Analysis in EU State Aid Control"
Date: February 3, 2012 | Time: 15:00-17:00 | Room: 23.S05
Lecture summary: In recent years, the European Commission has sought to gradually increase the effectiveness of state aid control as part of EU competition policy. It has done so in part through the use of a more refined economic analysis on a case-by-case basis. This talk aims at discussing some key issues examined by the Commission when assessing the effects of state measures on competition and trade.
About the speaker: Adina Claici has been working in the Chief Economist Team at the European Commission (DG Competition) since 2008. She is currently involved in merger, state aid and antitrust cases. Adina received her PhD in Industrial Organization from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2005 and has lectured there and at the University of Alicante in Spain. Publications include "Are Loyalty-Rewarding Pricing Schemes Anti-Competitive?” (jointly with Ramon Caminal), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007 and "The Velux case – an in-depth look at rebates and more" (jointly with Svend Albaek), Competition Policy Newsletter, 2009.
Competition Seminar Series Archive
Speakers from past years include:
- Luís Cabral
Professor, IESE and member of EC President Barroso's Group of Economic Policy Analysis
- Pietro Crocioni
OFCOM and Warwick Business School
"Network Neutrality: a few thoughts and many questions"
- Gergely Csorba
GVH, Hungarian Competition Authority
"Separating the ex post effects of mergers: an analysis of structural changes on the Hungarian retail gasoline market" (with D. Farkas and G. Koltay)
- Fernando Domínguez
OFWAT (Water Services Regulation Authority, UK)
“Proposal to Reform the Water industry in England and Wales”
Giulio Federico
Chief Economist Team, European Commission (DG Competition); Barcelona GSE guest professor
"The Spanish Energy Sector: Regulation, Competition and the Environment" [pdf]
Gregor Langus
Chief Economist Team, European Commission
"Use of Economics at the Directorate for Competition of the EC in abuse and merger cases"
- Scott Marcus
Director, WIK-Consult GmbH
"The Effects of Lower Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Price and Demand"
- Mario Mariniello
Directorate-General Competition European Commission
- Stefan Rating
Attorney, J&A Garrigues
- Simon Roberts, Chief Economist of the South Africa Competition Commission
"Effects-based abuse tests in practice: the case of South Africa"
- Elena Zoido
Director of European competition policy practice, LECG
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