Thursday 25 March
 

12.00pm - 1.45pm	Registration
1.45pm - 2.00pm	Welcome
2.00pm - 4.00pm	Session 1 John Bridgeman (Director General of Fair Trading) ‘New Competition Policy’ Kevin Lawler (Sunderland) ‘Last Orders: UK Brewing since 1989’ Rafael Emmanuel Macatangay (Manchester)  ‘Anti-Trust Markets for Wholesale Electricity’ Michael Parmar (Warwick)  ‘Pay and Performance under Price-Cap Regulation’
4.00pm - 4.30pm	Tea
4.30pm - 6.00pm	Session 2 Nigel Driffield (Cardiff) ‘FDI and concentration in the host-market’ Holger Görg (UCC) ‘MNEs and Indigenous Entry’ Grazia Ietto-Gillies (South Bank) ‘Networks of Largest Transnationals’
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Free time
7.00pm - 7.30pm	Reception
7.30pm 9.00pm - 9.30pm	Conference Dinner: After-dinner speech by Derek Morris (Chairman, MMC)  ‘New developments in the regulation of privatised utilities’
Bar open till 12.00am

Friday 26 March
 

8.30am	Breakfast
9.30am - 11.00am	Session 3 Steve Bond (IFS) ‘The Effects of Financing Constraints on Investment and R&D Spending’ James H Love (Aston) ‘Scale, Appropriability and R&D’ Kenneth Simons (Royal Holloway) ‘Industry Shakeouts and Technological Change’
11.00am - 11.30am	Coffee
11.30am - 1.00pm	Session 4 David R Collie (Cardiff) ‘Prohibiting State Aid in an Integrated Market’ Emmanouel C Mamatzakis (Queen Mary and Westfield) ‘Public Infrastructure, Input Demand and Productivity Performance’ Anuradha Basu (Reading) ‘The Growth of Asian Entrepreneurship’
1pm	Lunch
2.30pm - 4.00pm	Session 5 Simon Parker (Durham) ‘Funding Gaps and Government Policy’ Robert Cressy (Warwick) ‘Adverse Selection in Credit Markets?’ Tim Jenkinson (Keble College) ‘Has the cost of capital fallen?’
4.00pm - 4.30pm	Tea
4.30pm - 6.00pm	Session 6  Howard Smith (IES, Oxford) ‘A Model of Retail Oligopoly’ Paul Kattuman (Cambridge) ‘Strategy Choices of Firms and Market Concentration’ Michael Waterson (Warwick) ‘Where’s the Beef? Market Structure and Entry’
6.00pm	Closing remarks

 

The conference fee for delegates is:
 

	Non-Academic	Academic	PG Student
Resident	£Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at E:\listplex\SYSTEM\SCRIPTS\filearea.cgi line 455, line 261. 150	£90	£65
Non-Resident	£100	£55	£35

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