3rd PhD Seminar of the International Telecommunications Society Programme

(as of June 18, 2012)

3rd PhD Seminar of the the

International Telecommunications Society

4-5 July 2012
Vienna, Austria

Location: Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Date: 4-5 July, 2012

Contact: - Prof. Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (erik.bohlin@chalmers.se)

- Dr. Brigitte Preissl, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany (b.preissl@zbw.eu)



Day 1: Wednesday 4 July, 2012



13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

13.45 - 14.00 Registration

14.00 - 14.15 Opening Remarks: Erik Bohlin & Brigitte Preissl  

14.15 - 15.00 Net Neutrality Scenarios

Network Neutrality and Consumer Discrimination:
A Cross-provider Analysis

Damir Agic
Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

Discussant: Jason Whalley, Strathclyde University, Scotland

15.00 – 15.45 Economic Impact of Telecommunications

The Telecommunications Industry and Economic Growth: How the Market Structure Matters
Vahagn Jerbashian
Charles University, Prague, and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI)

Discussant: Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University, USA

15.45 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 - 16.45 Economic Impact of Telecommunications (continued)

The Impact of Telecommunication Technologies on the Competition in Services and Goods Markets: Empirical Evidence
Anna Kochanova
Charles University, Prague, and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI)

Discussant: Gary Madden, Curtin University, Australia

16.45 – 17.00 Reflections on Day 1: Brigitte Preissl, ZBW

19.00 PhD dinner, place TBD

Day 2: Thursday 5 July, 2012

9.00 - 9.15 Opening Remarks

9.15 - 10.45 Mobile Service Markets

Impacts of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Prices:
The Implication for Regulators

Chatchai Kongaut

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenborg, Sweden

Discussant: Teodosio Péréz Amaral, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

The Effect of On-net/Off-net Differentiation and Heterogeneous Consumers on Network Size in Mobile Telecommunications – An Agent-based Approach
Johannes Muck
Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf, Germany

Discussant: José Luis Gómez Barroso, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain

10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 Internet Economics

Is the Google Platform a Two-sided market?
Giacomo Luchetta
LUISS University, Rome, Italy; Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium

Discussant: Claudio Feijoo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

12.30 - 12.45 Workshop Conclusions: Erik Bohlin & Brigitte Preissl

12.45 Lunch

Participant List (PhD Candidates)


Name

Affiliation

e-mail

Title

1

Damir Agic

Infrastructure Economics & Management, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

damir.agic@uni-weimar.de

Network Neutrality and Consumer Discrimination: Comparing ISP’s GTCs and DPI Application

2

Vahagn Jerbashian

Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, Prague, and the Economics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI)

Vahagn.Jerbashian@cerge-ei.cz

The Telecommunications Industry and Economic Growth: How the Market Structure Matters

3

Anna Kochanova

CERGE-EI

akochano@cerge-ei.cz

The impact of telecommunication technologies on the competition in services and goods markets: Empirical evidence

4

Chatchai Kongaut

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenborg, Sweden

chatchai@chalmers.se

Impacts of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Prices: The Implication for Regulators

5

Giacomo Luchetta

LUISS University, Rome, Italy; Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium

giacomo.luchetta@ceps.eu

Is the Google Platform a Two-sided market?

6

Johannes Muck

Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Duesseldorf, Germany

Johannes.Muck@dice.uni-duesseldorf.de

The Effect of On-net/Off-net Differentiation and Heterogeneous Consumers on Network Size in Mobile Telecommunications – An Agent-based Approach

Discussant List


Name

Affiliation

e-mail

1

Bohlin, Erik

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

erik.bohlin@chalmers.se

2

Bauer, Johannes

Michigan State University, USA

bauerj@msu.edu

3

Feijoo, Claudio

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

cfeijoo@cedint.upm.es

4

Gomez Barroso, Jose Luis

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

jlgomez@cee.uned.es

5

Madden, Gary

Curtin University, Perth, Australia

g.madden@curtin.edu.au

6

Perez Amaral, Teodosio

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

teodosio@ccee.ucm.es

7

Preissl, Brigitte

ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Hamburg, Germany

b.preissl@zbw.eu

8

Whalley, Jason

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Jason.whalley@strath.ac.uk



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