Program and Papers

This page contains the final program as of June 10, 2003.

As the final papers and presentations are becoming available, they will be posted on this page, where they will also remain after the workshop. All workshop participants will receive a CD-ROM with all papers.

Participation requires registration, which you can do here.

Further information about the conference venue and accomodation is available here.

There will be an informal get-together on Thursday evening for those arriving already a day earlier. Participants will receive further information by e-mail.

Friday, June 13

9.00 - 9.45 Registration

9.45 - 10.00 Welcome

Thorsten Wichmann, Berlecon Research

10.00 - 10.30 Session I: Productivity, Innovation and Growth

Maurizio Iacopetta, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
[paper] [presentation]

10.30 - 11.30 Session II: International Trade and Taxation

Anne Schäfer, Christoph Spengel, Centre for European Economic Research - ZEW (DE)
ICT and International Corporate Taxation: Tax Attributes and Scope of Taxation
[paper] [presentation]
Lucian Cernat, UNCTAD (CH)
Trade and Competition Policy in the Digital Era: Towards a Regulatory Framework for Global E-Business
[paper] [presentation]

11.30 - 12.30 Keynote

Georgios Karageorgos, European Commission, DG Enterprise
Adapting E-Business Policies in a Changing Environment
[presentation]

12.30 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.30 Session III: Music, Media and Regulation

Maija Halonen, Tobias Regner, University of Bristol (UK)
Technology Change and the Allocation of Ownership: The Music Industry
[paper1] [paper2] [presentation]
Marcus Alexander, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (UK)
Regulating Russian E-Media: The Case of Internet Policy in a Transition Economy
[paper] [presentation]

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.30 Session IV: E-Business Empirics

Ana R. de Aguila Obra, Antonio Padilla Meléndez, University of Málaga (ES), Enrique Bernal Jurado, Francisco Montijano Guardia, University of Jaén (ES)
Business Web Usage. Analysis of the Spanish Insurance Sector
[paper] [presentation]
Tobias Hüsing, Stefan Lilischkis, Felix Hellermann, empirica (DE)
Patterns of ICT Usage and E-Business Success Among European On-line Sellers
[paper] [presentation]
Julia Häring, Centre for European Economic Research - ZEW (DE)
Different Prices for Identical Products? Market Efficiency and Retailer Strategies in B2C E-Commerce
[paper] [presentation]

18.00 Dinner Reception

Saturday, June 14

9.30 - 10.30 Session V: Cooperation on the Net

Hans Schaffers, Telematica Instituut (NL), Amon Ribak, IBM Research Laboratory at Haifa (IL) Volker Tschammer, Fraunhofer FOKUS (DE), Peter Aschmoneit, University of St. Gallen (CH)
New Models for Co-Operation in Work and Business: Socio-Economic Drivers and Technology Enablers
[paper] [presentation]
Mikko Leppämäki, Mikko Mustonen, University of Helsinki (FI)
Spence Revisited - Signalling with Externality: The Case of Open Source Programming
[paper] [presentation]

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.00 Session VI: Individual ICT Usage

John Haisken-DeNew, RWI Essen, DIW Berlin and IZA Bonn (DE)
ICT and Socio-Economic Exclusion
[paper] [presentation]
Eric Darmon, Dominique Torre, Latapses-Idefi, CNRS and Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (FR)
Search and Electronic Markets: Equilibrium and Sequential Approaches
[paper] [presentation]

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30 Session VII: Networks and Network Goods

L-F Pau, Ericsson CCND (SE) and Rotterdam School of Management (NL)
IPv6 Return on Investment (R.O.I.) Analysis Framework at a Generic Level, and First Conclusions
[paper] [presentation]
Amihai Glazer, University of California, Irvine (US), Vesa Kanniainen, Mikko Mustonen, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki (FI)
Free Riding in the Innovation of Network Goods
[paper] [presentation]

15.00 - 16.00 Roundtable Discussion: ICT Economics After the Hype - The End or the Beginning?

Participants to be announced