Dear All,
If you have not yet registered for this year's Annual Conference of the
NIE, please do. There is an excellent line-up of speakers. The
conference is in a beautiful location, with a dinner in Royal Holloway's
renowned Picture Gallery, a sponsored wine reception, and other social
events. Up-to-date information, including a registration form, is at
the following web page:
http://www2.rhul.ac.uk/~uhss021/nieApr2001.html
The NIE's website page is outdated; don't use the usual NIE webpage for
info on this conference (we are at the mercy of outside people who
aren't updating it).
To avoid the late-registration fee, please send your registration and
payment right away. The registration form is available at the above web address.
The provisional programme for the conference is below.
Best Regards,
Ken Simons
Provisional Programme, NIE Annual Conference, 5-6 April 2001
Thursday 5 April
13:30 - 14:20 Registration and opening reception
14:20 - 14:30 Welcome
14:30 - 15:30 Strategy and Change I
John Cable, Richard H. G. Jackson, and Huw Rhys (University of Wales)
Profit Cycles: The Dynamics of Corporate Earnings Revisited
Paul A. Kattuman (University of Cambridge)
Market Structure Dynamics in Transition
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Strategy and Change II
Kevin A. Lawler, Kin Pui Lee, Chih Cheng Yang, and Jenny Kwok
(University of Sunderland)
Retailing Games and Regional Grocery Markets: A Probit Study of the
North East
Grazia Ietto-Gillies (South Bank University)
Fuzzy Boundaries, Networks and Firms' Objectives
18:00 - 19:00 Wine reception in the Horton building (courtesy of Royal
Holloway Economics Department)
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner in the Picture Gallery
22:00 - 24:00 Late bar available.
Friday 6 April
10:00 - 11:00 Policy
Kevin Mole (Middlesex University)
Using a Logistic Recurrence Model to Analyse the Objectives of Small
Business Support Policy
Patrick McCloughan and Esmaiel Abounoori (University of Liverpool)
A Non-Parametric Estimator for the Concentration Ratio given Grouped Data
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Technology
Sergio Destefanis and Vania Sena (University of Salerno, Italy and
University of Leeds)
Technical Efficiency in Italian Manufacturing: The Role of Corporate
Governance
Albert N. Link, David Paton, and Donald S. Siegel (University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, Nottingham University, Nottingham University)
Strategic Research Partnerships in the United States: Econometric
Evidence from Research Joint Venture Activity
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch in the Founder's building main dining room
13:45 - 14:45 Technology / Regulation and De-Regulated Industries
Nigel Driffield and James H. Love (University of Birmingham and Aston
University)
FDI, Technology Sourcing and Reverse Spillovers
Monica Giulietti, Catherine Waddams Price, and Michael Waterson
(University of Warwick, University of East Anglia, and University of
Warwick)
Redundant Regulation? Competition and Consumer Choice in Residential
Energy Markets
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 Regulation and De-Regulated Industries
Alberto Iozzi, Carla Pace, Roberta Sestini, and Edilio Valentini
(Università di Roma ‘Tor Vegrata’ and joint affiliations)
On the Effects of Regulating Price Discrimination by a Price Capped Firm
Heli Koski and Sumit K. Majumdar (ETLA The Research Institute of the
Finnish Economy and Imperial College)
Paragons of Virtue? Competitor Entry and the Strategies of Incumbents
in the US Local Telecommunications Industry
4:00 - 4:10 Concluding remarks
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