Topics: - Value-creation in corporate takeovers - Strategic bidding and target defensive tactics - Restructuring techniques and their valuation effects - Highly leveraged transactions. LBOs and breakups - Financing takeovers - Takeover initiations and managerial incentives - Mergers, industrial...

Topics: • competition and regulation in transport and distribution • smart grid • capacity markets • national vs. supranational regulation • long term contracts • retail competition • markets for pollution permits • costs and integration of renewable energy

An indicative list of topics that could be addressed by the conference, both at the theoretical and empirical level, includes: - Impact evaluation of infrastructure at the household and firm level - Infrastructure and social policies - Infrastructure and industrial policies - Infrastructure and...

Draft agenda: Session I - Roundtable on Competition Policy, Industrial Policy and National Champions Session II - Competition Policy and The Informal Economy Session III - Challenges Faced by Young Competition Authorities Session IV - Other Business Session V - The Role of Competition...

The special areas of interest of the conference are: - determinants of migration, - labour migration after EU enlargement and its impact on the labour markets of the sending and the receiving countries, - macroeconomic effects of migration (remittances, balance of payments, economic growth,...

The discussions at the conference will be divided into four sessions: 1) Does a European model exist for SMEs? 2) SMEs and credit risk analysis. 3) Banks and financing of SMEs. 4) SMEs and regulatory issues.

Key iussues: - Climate Change - How can we build a solid economic framework for combating climate change beyond Kyoto? - Growth and Stability - How to deal with risks following the shocks of financial turmoil, cooling housing markets and higher energy and commodity prices? How should regulators...

This conference will address the design of regulation and competition policy. The Ninth CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization will be supported by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research (Euroconferences). A school for young researchers will be organised as...

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...

ACE brings together those working on the economics of competition in government, academia and the private sector and provides a forum for discussion and debate of both issues and cases. It is a not-for-profit organization based in Europe and is open to all those interested in the economics of...