6th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

09/04/2015 - 10/04/2015

University of Évora, Colégio do Espírito Santo, Room 131

CEFAGE-UE will host the 6th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs, an annual workshop organized by CEFAGE-UE and CEF.UP and sponsored by ANACOM and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, which will take place at Évora, Portugal, on April 9-10, 2015.

ANACOM awards

We are pleased to announce that ANACOM, the regulator, supervisor and representative of the communications sector in Portugal, will sponsor the "ANACOM Best Workshop Paper Award" (3500) as well as the "ANACOM Young Researcher Award" (1500), exclusive for researchers below the age of thirty.

Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce that Professors Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Liran Einav (Department of Economics, Stanford University) have accepted to deliver the workshop's keynote speeches.

Important dates

Opening date for submissions: December 1, 2014
Deadline for submissions: February 9, 2015
Decision on submissions: March 9, 2015
Meeting: April 9 and 10, 2015

Previous meetings

1st Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

2nd Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

3rd Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

4th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

5th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

Sponsors

This research has been financed by funds by the Portuguese Government through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under the project UID/ECO/04105/2013

Local

Universidade de Évora
Colégio do Espírito Santo - Room 131
Largo dos Colegiais, 2
7000 Evora
Portugal

Organizing Committee

António Brandão (CEF.UP)
Duarte Brito (CEFAGE-UE)
Andreia Dionísio (CEFAGE-UE)
Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE)
Joana Resende (CEF.UP)

Scientific Committee

Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)
Luís Cabral (New York University)
Gregory Crawford (University of Warwick)
Jeremy Fox (The University of Michigan)
Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics),
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Frank Verboven (K. U. Leuven)
Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)

Call for Papers

We invite researchers, irrespective of their institutional or geographical affiliation, to submit theoretical, applied, or policy-oriented research papers in areas related to the economics of ICT to our meeting. Those areas include industrial organization, regulation, information economics, game theory, econometric analysis, law and economics, behavioral and experimental economics.

Submission guidelines
The title page should contain the following elements: name of the author(s), affiliation(s), presenter, address(es), email(s), title of the paper, abstract (up to 600 words), keywords and JEL classification codes.

The e-mail should mention if the author is applying for the Young Researcher Award.

Submissions should be e-mailed, in pdf format, to: ictworkshop@uevora.pt

The same address can also be used for questions concerning the scientific program. All matters related to submissions and papers will be handled by the organizing committee.

Deadline for submissions: February 09, 2015

Programme

Thursday, April 9th

13:00-13:30 Registration

13:30-15:30 Session 1: Two-sided markets

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech: Analyzing competition for the market in Internet industries

Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)

17:00-17:15 Coffee Break

17:15-19:15 Session 2: E-commerce

20:00 Workshop Dinner

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Friday, April 10th

09:00-11:30 Session 3: Internet

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 Keynote Speech: Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?

Liran Einav (Stanford University)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:00 Session 4: Mobile Telephony

17:00-17:15 ANACOM Award

17:15-17:30 Closing Speech

17:30-18:00 Farewell Cocktail

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Download: Full Program.pdf

Organizing Committee

António Brandão (CEF.UP)
Duarte Brito (CEFAGE-UE)
Andreia Dionísio (CEFAGE-UE)
Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE)
Joana Resende (CEF.UP)

Scientific Committee

Call for Papers

The e-mail should mention if the author is applying for the Young Researcher Award.

Submissions should be e-mailed, in pdf format, to: ictworkshop@uevora.pt

The same address can also be used for questions concerning the scientific program. All matters related to submissions and papers will be handled by the organizing committee.

Deadline for submissions: February 09, 2015

Programme

Thursday, April 9th

13:00-13:30 Registration

13:30-15:30 Session 1: Two-sided markets

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech: Analyzing competition for the market in Internet industries

Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)

17:00-17:15 Coffee Break

17:15-19:15 Session 2: E-commerce

20:00 Workshop Dinner

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Friday, April 10th

09:00-11:30 Session 3: Internet

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 Keynote Speech: Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?

Liran Einav (Stanford University)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:00 Session 4: Mobile Telephony

17:00-17:15 ANACOM Award

17:15-17:30 Closing Speech

17:30-18:00 Farewell Cocktail

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Download: Full Program.pdf

Registration

Admittance to the workshop is free of charge, but participants are required to register before April 1st.

For non-presenters, the access to the workshop lunches (April 09th and 10th) and dinner (April 09th) is available for a fee of 100,00 (students and academics) and of 150,00 (non-academics). This fee also includes the workshop documentation and transport to and from the dinner location.

To register, e-mail cefage@uevora.pt.

Travel Information

The city of Evora

Évora is a quiet and delightful historical city in Alentejo, in the south of Portugal, in the middle of a softly waving peneplain, touched by a Mediterranean climate sweetened by the Atlantic influence of hot, long and dry summers, and soft winters.

A small city of about 60.000 residents with whitewashed houses, arches, and twisting alleyways, 130 km from Lisbon, it was classified by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. It is a true open-air museum, enclosed by medieval walls, with a large number of wonderfully preserved monuments and buildings of public interest: the Roman Temple of Diana, its most famous landmark; the Evora Museum, with its Roman columns, 16th-century paintings, and modern sculpture; the Giraldo Square, the main city square and the best place to start the visit and to return for refreshments; the Cathedral, with a great view over the city; the Church of S. Francisco, displaying the bones and skulls of some 5000 people covering the walls and columns of the church's Chapel of Bones; the Cromlech of Almendres, a megalithic site; among many other interesting places to discover

You can find more information about Évora by clicking here, a map of the city by clicking here (Google map) or here (touristic map) and more information about the University of Évora by clicking here.

Accessibility

The closest international airport is the Aeroporto de Lisboa, about 130 km west from Évora, and connected by a fast highway. After reaching the Lisbon airport (Faro airport in the South is also a possibility), you can either rent a car or go to the bus and train stations for direct services to Évora (tickets can be bought in the station or on-line). Trains and buses are equipped with wireless internet.

From Lisbon to Évora by train: There are 4 daily trains connecting Lisbon and Évora. The trip takes 1:35 and the price is approximately 12 euros. To go from the airport to the train station "Lisboa-Oriente" from the airport you can take the subway, or a bus, or aeroshuttle (or a taxi - aprox. price: 10). The train timetable is timetable.pdf. For information regarding the train timetables and for buying the ticket on-line please check here.

From Lisbon to Évora by bus: There are 20 daily buses (from 7:00 to 22:00) connecting Lisbon and Évora. The trip takes 1:30 or 1:45 (depending on whether is a non-stop bus or not) and the price is around 12 euros. To go from the airport to the bus station you can take the subway, a bus, aerobus or aeroshuttle (or a taxi aprox. Price: 10) from the airport to the bus-station Sete Rios (tickets, aprox. Price: 3.5). Here is an example of the Buses Timetable in a normal week day (holidays and week-ends have a different timetable).

For updated information regarding the buses timetables and for buying your ticket please check here (the site is available in english and french).

From Lisbon (airport) to Évora by car:

You may rent a car at the airport. Take the highway A1, direction Ponte Vasco da Gama, A12. After crossing the bridge, continue through highway A12. At exit n.7 choose [Espanha/Évora,A6]. Continue through highway A6 [E90] for aprox. 60 km till exit [Évora]. Follow the signs to Évora for another 10 km.

Workshop Venue

CEFAGE-UE

The 6th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs is organized by CEFAGE-UE, a research center created in 2006 with the aim of promoting the production and diffusion of high-quality research in economics and management.

Presently, the research unit of CEFAGE-UE, which is hosted by the University of Evora, has 45 integrated members holding a Ph.D. and 3 members who are currently working towards their PhD.

The research interests of CEFAGE-UEs members cover, among other fields, agricultural economics, econometrics, environmental resources, finance, industrial organization, innovation and entrepreneurship, international economics, labor economics, marketing and consumer behavior, spatial economics and sustainable growth.

For more information on CEFAGE-UE, visit the website http://www.cefage.uevora.pt

University of Evora

The University of Evora is simultaneously an old and a new university. It was founded in 1559 by Cardinal D. Henrique, who handed over to the Company of Jesus. In 1759 - two hundred years after its foundation - the University was closed as a consequence of a royal decree that banished the Jesuits from Portugal. Only in 1973, more than two centuries later, was the University of Evora reconstituted as a public university. It was installed in its original building, the Colegio do Espirito Santo (College of the Holy Spirit), the same building where the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal will take place.

Currently, the University of Evora offers all different levels of undergraduate and graduate studies within a perspective closely tied to scientific research and artistic creation.

For more information on the University of Evora, see the website http://www.uevora.pt.

ANACOM AWARDS

We are pleased to announce that ANACOM, the regulator, supervisor and representative of the communications sector in Portugal, will sponsor the "ANACOM Best Workshop Paper Award" (3500) as well as the "ANACOM Young Researcher Award" (1500), exclusive for researchers below the age of thirty.

In the previous editions of the workshop, the ANACOM Best Workshop Paper Award was attributed to:

2011: "Platform Pricing Structure and Moral Hazard", by Guillaume Rogery (University of New South Wales) and Luís Vasconcelos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), forthcoming at the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy,

2012: "Multidimensional Product Design", by André Veiga (Toulouse School of Economics) and E. Glen Weyl (University of Chicago).

2013: "Dominance and Competitive Bundling" by Sjaak Hurkens(Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC and Barcelona GSE), Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics) and Domenico Menicucci (Universita degli Studi di Firenze)

and

"Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and the Fast Lane: An Empirical Study of the UK" by Laura Nurski (University of Leuven) - ANACOM Young Researcher Awards.

2014: "Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition" by Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)

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