2nd Berlin Internet Economics Workshop
May 28 - 29, 1999 in Berlin, Germany
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= P L E A S E D I S T R I B U T E =
The Berlin Workshop on Internet Economics provides a forum for researchers
and pracitioners who are interested in and working on economic aspects of
the Internet. The first workshop took place in October 1997 with world-wide
particiption by people working on Internet-related topics in industry,
universities and government institutions. A selection of workshop papers
have been published in the first issue of Netnomics.
Registration is now possible. Please note that there is a reduced
registration fee until May 15, 1999. To register, please go to the
workshop's web page at
http://www.berlecon.de/iew2.
Below you will find the preliminary program in its current state.
This workshop is sponsored by Deutsche Telekom (http://www.telekom.de)
Regards,
Thorsten Wichmann
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Preliminary Program (as of May 5, 1999)
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Friday, May 28
9.00 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.30 Welcome
Dieter Ernst, Under Secretary of State in the Senate for Economics
and Public Utilities of Berlin
Thorsten Wichmann, Berlecon Research
10.30 - 11.00 Survey I
"A Practical Review of Pricing and Cost Recovery for Internet Services"
Peter Reichl, ETH Zuerich; Simon Leinen, SWITCH; Burkhard Stiller,
ETH Zuerich (Switzerland)
11.00 - 12.30 Pricing Internet Services
"The Web As A New Mass Medium: Charging For Internet Services"
Isabelle Fleurot, Thierry Sommer, France Telecom (France)
"Internet User Reactions to Usage-Based Pricing"
Jörn Altmann; Björn Rupp; Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley (USA)
"A Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing Model"
Louis François Pau, Ericsson (Sweden)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 16.00 Internet Provider Strategies
"Analysis and Market Projections for the German Business Class and
Consumer ISPs"
Bettina Horster, VEBA (Germany)
"A Framework for Understanding Strategy Development of ISPs"
Erik Wierstra, Telematics Institute (The Netherlands); Gabriele
Kulenkampff, WIK (Germany); Hans Schaffers, Telematics Institute
(The Netherlands)
"Competition and Compatibility among Internet Service Providers"
Øystein Foro; Bjørn Hansen, Telenor Research and Development
(Norway)
"Interconnection between ISP, Capacity Constraints and Vertical
Differentiation"
Dang Nguyen Godefroy; Thierry Penard, ENST Bretagne (France)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
Voluntary Diskussion Round on "The Economics of Wireless
Internet".
Organizer: Louis François Pau, Ericsson (Sweden)
16.30 - 18.30 Electronic Money
"Standardising Electronic Means of Payment?"
Aloys Prinz, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
"Financial Innovation and the New Monetary Economics"
Malte Krueger, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
"Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs"
Nick Szabo (USA)
"Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC
Wage Differential"
John P. Haisken-Denew, DIW; Christoph M. Schmidt, University of
Heidelberg (Germany)
18.30 Dinner Reception
Saturday, May 29
9.00 - 9.30 Survey II
"WTO, International Organizations, and the Regulatory Framework on
E-Commerce: Issues and Prospects in the New Millenium Round"
Daewon Choi,United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(Switzerland)
9.30 - 11.00 Internet, Computers and the "Real" Economy
"When and How is the Internet Likely to Decrease Price competition?"
Rajiv Lal, Harvard Business School; Miklos Sarvary, Stanford
University (USA)
"Internet Trade and the Tax Leak: A Quantitative Analysis for the
Netherlands"
Huub Meijers, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
"Banking is essential, banks are not: The future of financial
intermediation in the age of the Internet"
Hanno Beck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30
Empirical Studies on Advertising and Marketing
"Restructuring In the U.S. Media Advertising Industry: The Influence of
Economic and Technological Factors"
Alvin J. Silk, Harvard University; Lisa R. Klein, Harvard University;
Ernst R. Berndt, MIT (USA)
"Will E-Commerce Compete more with Traditional Retailing or Direct
Marketing?"
Michael R. Ward, University of Illinois (USA)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.30
Trading, Auctions, and Experiments
"Optimization in Electronic Markets: Examples in Combinational
Auctions"
Rudolf Mueller; Stan van Hoesel, University of Maastricht (The
Netherlands)
"Trading Portfolios Electronically -- An Experimental Approach"
Sayee Srinivasan, OptiMark Technologies (USA)
"Moving Experimental Economics to the Internet"
Carsten Schmidt; H. Arno Jacobsen, Humboldt-University Berlin
(Germany)
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
Voluntary Diskussion Round on "Statistical Computing on the
Internet" with online presentation of XploRe.
Organizer: Wolfgang Härdle, Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany)
16.00 - 18.00
Issues in Value-Added Services
"The Quality of Information in Electronic Groups"
Michael Bacharach; Oliver Board, Oxford University (UK)
"One size doesn't fit all: Improving network QoS through
preference-driven Web caching" Yee Man Chan; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason;
Jonathan Womer, University of Michigan (USA)
"Structure and Development of Markets for Internet Telephony"
Dieter Elixmann; Gabriele Kulenkampff, WIK (Germany)
"Domain Names, Transaction Costs, and Property Rights:
Investigating Technology's Ability to Foment Institutional Change"
Milton Mueller, Syracuse University (USA)
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Dr. Thorsten Wichmann email: [log in to unmask]
Berlecon Research phone: +49 30 285296-0
Oranienburger Str. 32 fax : +49 30 285296-29
D-10117 Berlin, Germany web : http://www.berlecon.de
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