34th annual conference of the EARIE

How can TILEC members best validate and disseminate the results of their research? Publications in international, peer-reviewed, scientific journals and participations to major international conferences clearly contribute to the realization of TILEC's goal of "excellence in research". Earlier this month, TILEC was well-represented at the 34th annual conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), which took place in Valencia, Spain. EARIE was created in 1974 with the aim of providing a professional society for academics and practitioners with an interest in the field of industrial economics.TILEC members Cédric Argenton, Lapo Filistrucchi, Jens Prüfer and Bert Willems, along with extramural fellow Evgenia Motchenkova presented their recent pieces on topics as varied as exclusivity contracts, habit-driven consumer behavior, mergers among non-profit organizations, electricity plant divestitures and anti-cartelization leniency programs. The keynote speakers, Greg Shaffer, Suzanne Scotchmer, and Lars-Hendrik Röller, respectively addressed the issues of loyalty rebates and selective price cuts, incentives for innovation beyond intellectual property rights, and the political economy of competition policy, all subjects falling within the scope of TILEC research programme, whose relevance thereby got a marked confirmation.