3rd TILEC Workshop on
“Competition Policy and Regulation in
Media and Telecommunications”
Thursday, 23 May 2013
8.45-9.00
Welcome address: Corien Prins (Dean, Tilburg Law School)
9.00-10.45
Session 1: Weak copyright protection, Chair: Panos Delimatsis (TILEC)
Key-note 1:
Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)
“Digital Disintermediation in Music and Books”
Andres Hervas-Drane (Pompeu Fabra)
“Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Cultural Trade Protectionism”
Discussant: Helen Weeds (Essex)
10.45-11.15
Coffee Break
11.15-12.45
Session 2: Media regulation, Chair: Cedric Argenton (TILEC)
Pierre Larouche (TILEC)
“An integrative model for media regulation?"
Discussant: Peggy Valcke (University of Leuven)
Lapo Filistrucchi (TILEC)
“Market definition in media markets: evidence from the French advertising ban on public TV”
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)
12.45-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Session 3: Internet regulation, Chair: Bert Willems (TILEC)
Key-note 2:
Christopher Yoo (University of Pennsylvania)
“Modularity Theory and Internet Policy”
Laura Nurski (University of Leuven)
“Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and the Fast Lane: An empirical study of the UK”
Discussant: Catherine Schaumans (TILEC)
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-18.15
Session 4: Social media, news and news aggregators, Chair: Angelos Dimopoulos (TILEC)
Peggy Valcke (Leuven University)
“Data interoperability in online social networks”
Discussant: Patricia Vantsiouri (TILT)
Fabrizio Germano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
“Time Scarcity and the Market for News”
Discussant: Cedric Argenton (TILEC)
Lisa George (Hunter College, CUNY)
“Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News”
Discussant: Tobias Klein (TILEC)
19.30
Conference Dinner
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University
tilec@tilburguniversity.edu - www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilec
3rd TILEC Workshop on
“Competition Policy and Regulation in
Media and Telecommunications”
Friday, 24 May 2013
8.45-10.30
Session 5: Offline and online media bias, Chair: Angelos Dimopoulos (TILEC)
Key-note 3:
Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University)
“Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia”
Matthias Heinz (Goethe University)
“Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing”
Discussant: Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin)
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-13.15
Session 6: Online search, Chair: Cedric Argenton (TILEC)
Konstantina Bania (EUI)
“Abuse of dominance in online search: Google as the new content gatekeeper”
Discussant: Pierre Larouche (TILEC)
Greg Taylor (Oxford University)
“Integration and Search Engine Bias”
Discussant: Jens Prüfer (TILEC)
Matthew Ellman (IAE-CSIC)
“In Google we trust”
Discussant: Jan Boone (TILEC)
13.15-14.30
Lunch
14.30-17.00
Session 7: Media Pluralism, Chair: Bert Willems (TILEC)
Key-note 4:
Lorna Woods (City University, London)
"Positive Human Rights and the Competition-Regulation Debate: The Case of Freedom of Expression and the Communications
Sector"
Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin)
“Telecracy: Testing for Channels of Persuasion”
Discussant: Lapo Filistrucchi (TILEC)
Julia Cagé (Harvard University)
“Trash Media: How Competition Affects Information”
Discussant: Lisa George (Hunter College, CUNY)
17.00-17.30
Farewell drinks
www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilec/media, registration is open until 15 May 2013
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Microsoft.
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University
tilec@tilburguniversity.edu - www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilec