Platform Markets: Regulation and Competition Policy

ZEW Centre for European Economic Research, MaCCI Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation and University of Mannheim are pleased to announce their conference "Platform Markets: Regulation and Competition Policy". The objective of the conference is to stimulate discussion between academic researchers and professionals in markets involving multi-sided platforms. Theoretical, empirical as well as policy-oriented articles are welcome.

The topics of interest include the strategies, governance, regulation and antitrust issues of:

• Network externalities and standards
• Advertising media and online content
• Price discrimination, bundling, dynamic pricing, versioning
• E-commerce, online-auctions, open source development
• Payment systems, software

Invited Speakers

• Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)
• Marc Rysman (Boston University)

Scientific Committee

• Mark Armstrong (University College London)
• Andrei Hagiu (Harvard Business School)
• Bruno Jullien (University of Toulouse I)
• Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zurich and ZEW)
• Robin Lee (New York University)
• Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)
• Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
• Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Toulouse I)
• Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
• Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London)
• Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)

Call for Papers, (PDF file, 305 KB)

Schedule

The conference will start with lunch on Monday. In the evening MaCCI is holding a reception. A conference dinner will be offered on Tuesday. The conference closes on Wednesday after lunch.
Programme (PDF file, 35 KB)