International Workshop on Competition, Regulation and Procurement

Competition is an essential force to deliver economic efficiency and innovation leading to a higher level of consumer welfare. In many markets, however, competition may not emerge naturally and may need to be promoted and maintained by proper rules followed by effective enforcement. Once emerged, unregulated competition may produce a number of unwanted effects, from quality degradation to self-destruction through cartelization. Industry heterogeneity, limited contractibility, and firms legal and illegal attempts to avoid competitive pressure make the task of designing rules promoting healthy competition all but easy. Public procurement adds a major additional layer of complexity to this task, coming from the need to ensure public buyer’s accountability. Since government agencies are not particularly subject to competitive pressure nor always keen in monitoring themselves, corruption remains a central problem of many public procurement markets that must be taken into account when designing regulations to promote healthy competition. This international workshop aims both to stimulate research on these important topics and to disseminate the results of it to lay public, to lawmakers and to practitioners.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

	Elena Podkolzina Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Institutional Studies, HSE epodk@hse.ru
	Maria Semenova Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Institutional Studies, HSE msemenova@hse.ru
	Paola Valbonesi Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova paola.valbonesi@unipd.it
	Carine Staropoli Associate Professor, Paris School of Economics carine.staropoli@univ-paris1.fr
	Philippe Gagnepain Full Professor, Paris School of Economics philippe.gagnepain@univ-paris1.fr

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

	Emmanuelle Auriol Toulouse 1 Capitole University, France
	Giacomo Calzolari University of Bologna, Italy
	Antonio Estache ECARES, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
	Ricard Gil Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA
	Stéphane Saussier IAE, Université de Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, France
	Giancarlo Spagnolo SITE-Stockholm School of Economics, Univ. of Tor Vergata Rome, EIEF
	Pablo Spiller Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, USA

ORGANISED BY

	CInSt Higher School of Economics (CInSt HSE)
	Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
	LabEx OSE Paris School of Exonomics
	University of Padova
	With support of the Royal Economic Society

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