CRNI Conference 2011 > Residence Palace, Brussels, 25 november 2011

 

Parallel sessions A

 

  1. [CNI] Challenges in Network Industries 1/4 (Chair: Matthias Finger)
    1. Risk, Volatility and Regulation in Water Supply and Distribution: a post-privatization comparison of UK and US water utilities (Roger Buckland, Janice Beeche, Julian Williams)
    2. Gas release and transport capacity investment as instruments to foster competition in gas markets (Corinne Chaton, Farid Gasmi, Marie-Laure Guillerminet, Juan-Daniel Oviedo)
    3. Regulating the EU and US gas transportation markets: exploring institutional change (Aad Correlje, Martijn Groenleer, Jasper Veldman)

 

  1. [TEL] Telecommunications 1/2 (Chair: Wolter Lemstra)
    1. Governance of telecommunications markets – the case of international mobile roaming (Ewan Sutherland)
    2. What is driving investment in telecommunications? The role of regulation, internationalizations and firm’s market knowledge (Daniel Montolio, Elisa Trujillo)
    3. Telecommunications regulatory frameworks in small and unstable states (Omar Dhaher)
    4. Regulatory federalism in telecommunications (Francesc Trillas)

 

  1. [ENG] Energy 1/2 (Chair: Maarten Arentsen)
    1. Information challenges for the post-liberalized Italian energy retail markets: how regulation and competition rules shape information flows (Fabiana Di Porto)
    2. On the promotion of renewable sources in liberalized electricity markets. The role of feed-in-tariff systems (Aitor Ciarreta, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Carlos Gutiérrez-Hita)
    3. Non-discriminatory energy system operation: lessons learned from telecommunications and public procurement (Hannah Kruimer)
    4. A Mediterranean electricity co-operation strategy. Vision and rationale (Alessandro Rubino)

 

  1. [RUS] Network Industries in Russia (Chair: Serguey Seliverstov)
    1. Trends of Russia’s gas sector regulation (Andrei V. Belyi)
    2. Modernizing the Russian district heating sector – Financing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Investments under the New Federal Heat Law (Anatole Boute)
    3. Water industry in Russia: challenges and political priorities (Anastasia Likhacheva)

 

Parallel sessions B

 

  1. [ENG] Energy 2/2 (Chair: Matthias Finger)
  1. Institutional change and technology adoption in the electricity distribution networks of Andhra Pradesh, India (Brijesh Bhatt)
  2. Regulating electricity infrastructure in China: in search of an optimal model (Anastassios Gentzoglanis)
  3. Gas-to-Electric Substitution and Competition in Residential Energy Market in Japan (Toru Hattori)
  4. Explaining the incomplete liberalisation reform of the Italian energy markets (Bernardo Rangoni)

 

  1. [CNI] Challenges in Network Industries 2/4 (Chair: Rolf Künneke)
  1. Regulatory reform in the Indonesian natural gas market (Alidi Hutagalung, Maarten Arentsen and Jon Lovett)
  2. Termination charges in the international parcel market (Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner)
  3. Assessing the Value for Money of Regulation of Infrastructure Networks (Alex Scharaschkin)
  4. Should Greece sell its electricity incumbent’s assets (Charalambos Tselentis)

 

  1. [RLW] Railways (Chair: Martin Holterman)
    1. The evolution of public funding to the rail sector in five European countries - a comparison (Julien Dehornoy)
    2. Considerations for regulating the allocation of train paths on EU freight corridors (Karsten Otte)
    3. The reform process of the railway sector in Europe: A disaggregated regulatory approach (Günter Knieps, Patrick Zenhäusern)
    4. Liberalization of the German and Dutch Railways and the containerization of the hinterland of Rotterdam (1966-2010) (K.M. Paardenkooper)

 

Parallel sessions C

 

  1. [CNI] Challenges in Network Industries 3/4 (Chair: Matthias Finger)
    1. The legal framework of services of general economic interest in the European Union (Nicola Ruccia)
    2. Pricing behaviour in the postal sector and the regulatory environment (Denis Sparas)
    3. Flexibility or certainty? A regulatory dilemma (Markos Tselekounis, Dimitris Varoutas and Drakoulis Martakos)
    4. The High-level Design of Infrastructure Projects: Building Cooperative Agreements between Local Actors (Giuseppe Cappiello, Paola Garrone, Paolo Nardi)

 

  1. [SGM] Smart grids and smart meters 1/2 (Chair: Hamilcar Knops)
    1. Advancing regulation with respect to smart grids: pioneering examples from the United Kingdom and Italy (Christine Müller)
    2. GSM Lessons for Smart Meters Standardization (Yannick Perez, Guanlan Guo)
    3. How to regulate a market-driven rollout of smart meters? A multi-sided market perspective (Jan Schächtele, Jens Uhlenbrock)
    4. Evaluation of the techno-economic viability of smart metering value network configurations based on a consumer oriented approach (Jan Van Ooteghem, Mathieu Tahon, Wouter Degadt, Olivier Braet, Sofie Verbrugge, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester)

 

  1. [TEL] Telecommunications 2/2 (Chair: Rolf Künneke)
    1. From regulatory tool to competition law rule: the case of margin squeeze as a blueprint for the transition from regulation to competition? (Hendrik Auf’mkolk)
    2. Making Europe in their Image - Communities of expertise and the shaping of EU governance (Nina Boeger, Joseph Corkin)
    3. Competition enhancing regulation and diffusion of innovation: the case of broadband networks (Harald Gruber, Pantelis Koutroumpis)
    4. Next generation networks and cost-based bitstream access: pricing asymmetrical distribution of risk (Michael Oraro and Pedro Ferreira)

 

  1. [AIR] Airlines (Chair: Volodymyr Bilotkach)
    1. An estimation of hub reliability premium in the US airline industry (Volodymyr Bilotkach, Vivek Pai)
    2. Patterns and effects of entry in U.S. airline markets (Kai Hüschelrath, Kathrin Müller)
    3. Strategies for Eastern European airlines: the case of Malév Hungarian Airline (Adél Németh)
    4. Shareholder value in natural monopolies - the case of airports (Hans-Arthur Vogel)

 

Parallel sessions D

 

  1. [CNI] Challenges in Network Industries 4/4 (Chair: Rolf Künneke)
  1. Aligning technological and institutional change: maritime transport in West Mediterranean sea (Alberto Asquer)
  2. Pump-storage small hydropower as an example of co-evolution between institutions and technologies (Nicolas Crettenand)
  3. The metamorphoses of universal service: a transsectoral perspective (Csongor Istvàn Nagy)

 

  1. [SGM] Smart grids and smart meters 2/2 (Chair: Daniel Scholten)
  1. Smart Grids as a Challenge to Key Principles of the EU Legal Framework for the Energy Market (Hamilcar Knops)
  2. Do Flemish households value smart meters? (Guido Pepermans)
  3. Smart grid innovation: policy, politics and law (Joseph P. Tomain)

 

  1. [GAS] Regulation of electricity and gas markets (Chair: Aad Correljé)
  1. Transmission network expansion by a proactive TSO: a case study (Angelamaria Groppi, Elena Fumagalli)
  2. Transmission unbundling as ex ante instrument of structural regulation of the energy market: EU approaches and the situation in Western Balkans (Serbia) (Tatjana Jovanic)
  3. The liberalization of the Italian natural gas market: the evolution of profitability and financial performances of retail companies (Guendalina Capece, Livio Cricelli, Francesca Di Pillo, Nathan Levialdi)
  4. Regulation of network infrastructure investments: an experimental evaluation (Bastian Henze, Bert Willems, Charles Noussair)