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Conference on the economics of
Information and Communication Technologies
Call for papers
Paris, June 18-19, 2009
This 2-day international conference will gather in Paris academic researchers involved in the field of the economics of Information & Communication Technologies. Theoretical, empirical as well as policy-oriented articles will be presented.
THURSDAY JUNE 18, 2009
12H-13H30 Welcome lunch
13H30-15H30: PARALLEL SESSIONS
TELECOM (Amphi Emeraude)
Angel lopez
(IESE Business School), ''Foreclosing
Competition through Access Charges
and Price Discrimination''
Discussant: Nicolas Schutz (Paris School of Economics)
João
Vareda (Autoridade da Concorrência, Portugal), ''Incentives
to Invest and to Give Access
to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks''
Discussant: Antonin Arlandis (France Telecom R&D)
Pratompong Srinuan (Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology), ''Mobile Number Portability: Evaluating the Swedish Mobile Market''
Discussant: Matthieu Manant (TELECOM & Management SudParis)
ADS (Amphi Rubis)
Joachim Klein (Munich Graduate School of Economics, University of Munich), ''Targeted Advertising on Internet Websites''
Discussant: Francois Moreau (CNAM)
Geza
Sapi (DIW Berlin), ''Beef
Up Your Competitor: A Model of Advertising
Cooperation between Internet Search Engines''
Discussant: Alexandre de Cornière (Paris School of Economics)
Alex White (GREMAQ, Toulouse School of Economics and TELECOM ParisTech), "Intent and Interest: The Attention Economy of Search and Web Advertisement "
Discussant : Thomas Tregouet (CREST-LEI)
16H-18H30 PLENARY SESSION (Amphi Emeraude)
Bruno Van Pottelsberghe (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles), "EU've got a message: Patent Policy learning from the Blackberry case"
Bruno Basalisco (Imperial College London), " The effect of user interaction on the demand for mobile text messages: evidence from cross-country data (2002-2007)"
Pavlos Symeou (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge), "Universal Service in Small Economies: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Policy, Institutional Endowments and Alternative Technologies"
Conference dinner at 58 Tour Eiffel at 21H00; bus leaves at 20H
FRIDAY JUNE 19, 2009
9H00-10H30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
PRODUCTIVITY (Amphi Emeraude)
Wladimir Raymond (MERIT, University of Maastricht), "Productivity effects of Innovation modes"
Discussant: Emmanuel Duguet (EPEE, Université d'Evry)
María Rosalía Vicente (University of Oviedo), ''The adoption of ICT applications at firm-level: The case of e-Learning for corporate training''
Discussant: Joeffrey Drouard (TELECOM ParisTech)
OPEN SOURCE (Amphi Rubis)
German Daniel Lambardi (GREMAQ, Toulouse School of Economics), ''Software innovation and the OS threat''
Discussant : Serge Pajak (TELECOM ParisTech)
Jan Eilhard (CERNA, Ecole des Mines), "Developer Productivity and Spillovers in Open Source Projects "
Discussant: Serge Pajak (TELECOM ParisTech)
11H-12H30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
PRICING (Amphi Emeraude)
Michael E. Kummer (University of Linz), ''99 Cents: Focal Pricing in E-Commerce''
Discussant: David Bounie (TELECOM ParisTech)
Valerie-Anne Beyen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ''Free or Fee? How Western European Newspapers Monetise their Online Content'
Discussant: Grazia Cecere (Université Paris Sud)
IP RIGHTS (Amphi Rubis)
Jing-Yuan Chiou (IMT Lucca), ''Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights''
Discussant: Yassine Lefouilli (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Thomas Le Texier (GREDEG, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis), ''Peer-to-peer networks and complementary goods: The impact of openness and innovation on profitable piracy''
Discussant: Régis Chenavaz (TELECOM ParisTech)
14H-16H30 PLENARY SESSION (Amphi Emeraude)
Alejandro Zentner (University of Texas, Dallas), "Clash of the Titans: The Internet versus Television"
E. Glen Weyl (Toulouse School of Economics and Harvard), ''Consumer Heterogeneity in Two-Sided Markets''
16H30-18H End of conference: farewell party and cocktail
Scientific coordinators: Marc Bourreau (TELECOM ParisTech) and Patrick Waelbroeck (TELECOM ParisTech)
Registration information:
Registration fee is 120 EUR. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2009. Articles should be submitted in PDF or MS WORD format to econict@telecom-paristech.fr. Our sponsors will cover conference fees and accommodation expenses of conference participants who present or discuss an accepted article. Depending on funding, other travel expenses will be partially or fully covered as well. For more information, please contact econict@telecom-paristech.fr and visit the web site of the conference at the following address, http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/econict/.