Program of the 2009 TELECOM ParisTech conference on the

Program of the 2009 TELECOM ParisTech conference on the economics of ICT
Conference venue: 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris; Subway Corvisart or Place d'Italie
THURSDAY JUNE 18, 2009
12H-13H30 Welcome lunch
13H30-15H30: PARALLEL SESSIONS
TELECOM (Amphi Emeraude)
Angel lopez (IESE Business School), ''Foreclosing Competition through Access Charges
and Price Discrimination''
Discussant: Nicolas Schutz (Paris School of Economics)
João Vareda (Autoridade da Concorrência, Portugal), ''Incentives to Invest and to Give Access
to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks''
Discussant: Antonin Arlandis (France Telecom R&D)
Pratompong Srinuan (Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of
Technology), ''Mobile Number Portability: Evaluating the Swedish Mobile Market''
Discussant: Matthieu Manant (TELECOM & Management SudParis)
ADS (Amphi Rubis)
Joachim Klein (Munich Graduate School of Economics, University of Munich), ''Targeted Advertising on
Internet Websites''
Discussant: Francois Moreau (CNAM)
Geza Sapi (DIW Berlin), ''Beef Up Your Competitor: A Model of Advertising
Cooperation between Internet Search Engines''
Discussant: Alexandre de Cornière (Paris School of Economics)
Alex White (GREMAQ, Toulouse School of Economics and TELECOM ParisTech), "Intent and Interest:
The Attention Economy of Search and Web Advertisement "
Discussant : Thomas Tregouet (CREST-LEI)
16H-18H30 PLENARY SESSION (Amphi Emeraude)
Bruno Van Pottelsberghe (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles), "EU've got a message: Patent Policy
learning from the Blackberry case"
Bruno Basalisco (Imperial College London), " The effect of user interaction on the demand for mobile text
messages: evidence from cross-country data (2002-2007)"
Pavlos Symeou (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge), "Universal Service in Small Economies:
An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Policy, Institutional Endowments and Alternative Technologies"
Conference dinner at 58 Tour Eiffel at 21H00; bus leaves at 20H
FRIDAY JUNE 19, 2009
9H00-10H30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
PRODUCTIVITY (Amphi Emeraude)
Wladimir Raymond (MERIT, University of Maastricht), "Productivity effects of Innovation modes"
Discussant: Emmanuel Duguet (EPEE, Université d'Evry)
María Rosalía Vicente (University of Oviedo), ''The adoption of ICT applications at firm-level: The case of
e-Learning for corporate training''
Discussant: Joeffrey Drouard (TELECOM ParisTech)
OPEN SOURCE (Amphi Rubis)
German Daniel Lambardi (GREMAQ, Toulouse School of Economics), ''Software innovation and the OS
threat''
Discussant : Serge Pajak (TELECOM ParisTech)
Jan Eilhard (CERNA, Ecole des Mines), "Developer Productivity and Spillovers in Open Source Projects "
Discussant: Serge Pajak (TELECOM ParisTech)
11H-12H30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
PRICING (Amphi Emeraude)
Michael E. Kummer (University of Linz), ''99 Cents: Focal Pricing in E-Commerce''
Discussant: David Bounie (TELECOM ParisTech)
Valerie-Anne Beyen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ''Free or Fee? How Western European Newspapers
Monetise their Online Content'
Discussant: Grazia Cecere (Université Paris Sud)
IP RIGHTS (Amphi Rubis)
Jing-Yuan Chiou (IMT Lucca), ''Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights''
Discussant: Yassine Lefouilli (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Thomas Le Texier (GREDEG, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis), ''Peer-to-peer networks and
complementary goods: The impact of openness and innovation on profitable piracy''
Discussant: Régis Chenavaz (TELECOM ParisTech)
14H-16H30 PLENARY SESSION (Amphi Emeraude)
Alejandro Zentner (University of Texas, Dallas), "Clash of the Titans: The Internet versus Television"
E. Glen Weyl (Toulouse School of Economics and Harvard), ''Consumer Heterogeneity in Two-Sided
Markets''
16H30-18H End of conference: farewell party and cocktail