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Conference

ACE 2006 - 4th Conference of the Association of Competition Economics

Topic

The University of Mannheim, the National Research Center SFB/TR 15, and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) are organizing this year’s annual conference of the Association of Competition Economics.

The Association of Competition Economics (ACE) brings together those working on the economics of competition in government, academia and the private sector and provides a forum for discussion and debate of both issues and cases. It is based in Europe and is open to all those interested in the economics of competition.

Topics to be discussed

Limits of competition policy
Excessive pricing actions
Re-regulation in liberalised sectors
National champions in the energy sector
Competition in stock exchanges

Programme Committee

John Fingleton (Office of Fair Trading, London)
Andrea Lofaro (RBB Economics, London)
Massimo Motta (European University Institute Florence, CEPR, and CES-Ifo)
Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim, CEPR and ZEW)

Local Organizing Committee

Patrick Beschorner (ZEW)
Georg Licht (ZEW)
Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim, CEPR and ZEW)
Hannes Ullrich (ZEW)