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3rd Meeting of the Association of Competition Economics

On 23 October 2008, the Rafael del Pino Foundation and the Public Sector-Private Sector Centre of IESE organised the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) at the Foundation headquarters. The event’s organising committee consisted of: Ignacio Herguera (CMT), Massimo Motta (European University Institute), Jorge Padilla (LECG), George Siotis (Carlos III University) and Xavier Vives (IESE Business School and Pompeu Fabra University).

This 3rd Meeting focused on overpricing and discriminatory pricing, the clemency programme, tacit collusion and consciously parallel behaviour, as well as the state of competition on the gas and electricity markets. The inaugural lecture was given by Reinaldo Rodríguez, Chairman of the Spanish Telecommunications Regulatory Commission.

The programme for the Meeting was as follows:

Opening: Xavier Vives (PS-PS Centre, IESE Business School), Reinaldo Rodríguez (CMT), Amadeo Petitbò (Rafael del Pino Foundation);
Overpricing and discriminatory pricing: collective management organisations: Francisco Garzón (CNC), Rafael Allendesalazar (Howrey Martínez Lage S.L.), Enrique Cañizares (PWC), Alejandro Requejo (LECG), Fernando Jiménez (NERA);
Clemency programme: logic and results: Isabel López Gálvez (CNC), Patrick Rey (IDEI), María Luisa Tierno (European Commission), Xavier Mas (Frontier Economics), M. Paz Espinosa, (University of the Basque Country);
Regulation and competition in gas and electricity: Giulio Federico (CRA International and PS-PS Centre, IESE Business School), Xavier Vives (PS-PS Centre, IESE Business School);
Tacit collusion and consciously parallel practices: Inmaculada Gutiérrez (CNC), José María Jiménez Laiglesia (DLA Piper), Natalia Fabra (Carlos III University of Madrid) and Elena Zoido (LECG).