First International conference
Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics
The HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics held a conference "Industrial organization and spatial economics"
Topics of interest that were include: industrial organization, spatial economics, imperfect competition, international trade, urban economics, and new economic geography.
The language of the conference was English.
Keynote speakers were:
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Kristian Behrens. Associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montreal (Canada) and holder of the tier-II "Canada Research Chair in Regional Impacts of Globalization".
Presentation title: Spatial frictions.
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Paul Belleflamme. Professor of Economics at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain.
Presentation title: Competition among two-sided platforms.
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John Morrow. Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE from 2011.
Presentation title: Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity.
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Peter Neary. Professor of Economics at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellow of Merton College.
Presentation title: Not so demanding: preference structure, firm behavior and welfare.
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Dennis Novy. Associate Professor, University of Warwick.
Presentation title: International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity.
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Gianmarco Ottaviano. Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Presentation title: Monopolistic competition, product selection and the optimum size distribution of firms.
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Xavier Vives. Professor of Economics and Finance, Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, and academic director of the Public-Private Research Center at IESE Business School, and adjunct professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Presentation title: A Large Market Rational Expectations Equilibrium Model.
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