Tuesday, May 26, 2026
10:00 - 10:30
Registration and welcome
10:30 - 12:30
Session 1
Carlo Reggiani
(Manchester University)
"Are You 18? Age Verification and Adult-only Consumption in the US"
Balázs Muraközy
(University of Liverpool)
"On the Rise of Export-Oriented Firms during Hungary’s Economic Transition"
Stanislas Lalanne
(Competition and Markets Authority)
"UK Supply Chains and Market Power"
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Session 2
Thiago Cacicedo
(Heriot-Watt University)
"Market power and the exit of a potential competitor"
Farasat Bokhari
(University of Loughborough)
"Merger efficiency and coordinated effects: nothing to sneeze at? Evidence from cough and cold medicines in the Philippines"
Jiekai Zhang
(Southampton University)
"Optimal Retail Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy"
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 17:10
Session 3
David Rietzke
(University of Lancaster)
"Entry, allocation, and welfare in successive oligopoly"
Mariana Alves Cunha
(Católica Porto Business School)
"Strategic Camouflage and Zombie Cartels: Endogenous Detection in Dynamic Cournot Competition"
17:10 - 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30
Keynote 1
Paul Heidhues
(Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
"TBA"
19:30
Dinner – TBA (by invitation)
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
9:30 - 10:30
Keynote 2
Stephan Seiler
(Imperial College London)
"New data sources for demand estimation"
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:10
Session 4
Renaud Foucart
(University of Lancaster)
"The Social Importance of Being Stubborn When an Organization Meets AI"
Arina Nikandrova
(City, University of London)
"Algorithmic Exclusion by Large Language Models"
12:10 - 13:10
Lunch
13:10 - 14:30
Session 5
Nicolas de Roos
(University of Liverpool)
"Price wars as costly signals"
William Matcham
(Royal Holloway University)
"Institutional Design of Misconduct Redress: Evidence from the Financial Ombudsman Service"
14:30 - 14:50
Coffee Break
14:50 - 16:10
Session 6
Rhys Williams
(Cambridge University)
"Who Gets the Dough? Explaining the Gluten Free Price Premium"
Genna Robb
(Competition and Markets Authority)
"TBA"
16:10
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