Dear Indecon Member

ANNUAL CONFERENCE - REGISTRATION DUE BY 21 MARCH 2001

This is an 'early-bird' reminder to members of the Network of
Industrial Economists (NIE) that the forthcoming annual meeting at
Royal Holloway College, University of London, is a MUST for entry in
your diary.

Details of the meeting, organised by the redoubtable Ken Simons, are
available on:
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/~uhss021/nieApr2001.html

Ken has put together a tremendous programme (see below), and the
setting for the meeting is spectacular (the Founder's Building, where
you will stay, is inspired by the 16th Century Château of Chambord in
the Loire Valley: for example, see:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Shared/Graphics/800x600/Common/Jpg/Tower.jpg)
An occasion not to be missed!

The registration form is attached.  Hard copy mailings will follow.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Gavin C Reid
Chairman, NIE

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Provisional Programme:

Strategy and Change

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

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


Policy

Keith Cowling
University of Warwick
Public Enterprise and Industrial Development

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


Regulation and Deregulated Industries

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

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


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

Nigel Driffield and James H. Love
University of Birmingham and Aston University
FDI, Technology Sourcing and Reverse Spillovers




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