ACE brings together experts who work on the economics of competition in government organisations, academia, and the private sector. It provides a forum for discussion of research topics as well as court cases. ACE is a non-profit organisation based in Europe open to all those interested in the...

Topics: - National entrepreneurship policy - Measurement of entrepreneurship - Organisational design and configuration theory - Innovation and entrepreneurship - Systems of entrepreneurial finance - Minority entrepreneurship - Regional systems of entrepreneurship - Statistical methodology &...

Goal of the conference is to gain feedback from experts and policymakers on draft policy notes outlining practical options for reforming environmental policies in Europe, and research needs to help improve policy design and evaluation. The focus will be on fiscal and regulatory policies...

The objective of the conference is to assess the role of financial regulation in competition among financial services providers in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Topics of interest include: international differences in financial sector regulation; regulatory arbitrage; regulatory...

Die durch die Digitalisierung hervorgerufenen Konvergenz der Medien sowie die Erkenntnisse aus der Theorie der zweiseitigen Märkte haben zu neuen Herausforderungen, sowohl für Medienunternehmen als auch für Wettbewerbs- und Regulierungsbehörden geführt. Zu diesen Herausforderungen gehören...

Programm: - Engpassbasierte Nutzertarife und Investitionsanreize - Zur Lenkungs- und Finanzierungsfunktion von Strassenbenutzungsgebühren - Lkw-Maut in Deutschland: Aktueller Stand und Weiterentwicklung - Mautsysteme in Frankreich: Erfolge und Misserfolge - Nutzerfinanzierung und...

The workshop aims at presenting the final results of the ESSnet project DCSS to a broader audience and encouraging all other NSIs (ESS and overseas) to present their research on the topic as well. The ESSnet DCSS investigated the advantages/disadvantages of using multiple data collection modes,...

Preliminary Schedule of the Jornadas: Roundtable on the Electricity Market. Invited Sessions: - Business Strategy - Empirical Industrial Organization - Experiments in Industrial Organization - Health Economics - Innovation Economics - Internet Economics - Regulation

The GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology offers high quality training in state of the art techniques and methods of survey research. The Summer School 2014 comprises a three-week (August 11-29) intensive program with 18 one-week courses and 2 short courses running in the preceding week...

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use the SOEP or the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) are invited to submit an abstract. We encourage in particular submissions of papers...