Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2010

The 2010 conference was held at Merton College, Oxford, in partnership with the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University, London. Presentations are available where possible. Programme

 

 

UK competition policy structure: Challenges to the existing institutions:

Chair: John Pheasant, Hogan Lovells

Sir Christopher Bellamy QC, Linklaters

Cavendish Elithorn, Office of Fair Trading

Dr Nigel Parr, Ashurst (slides)

Prof George Yarrow, Regulatory Policy Institute

 

Intellectual property rights and competition policy: Friends or foes?

Chair: Prof George Yarrow, Regulatory Policy Institute

Irwin Stelzer, Centre for Policy Studies

 

The Financial Crisis: Underlying causes and consequences for financial regulation:

Chair: Sir Callum McCarthy

Prof Philip Booth, IEA and Cass Business School (presentation)

Dr Thomas Huertas, FSA (slides)

 

Energy and Environmental Policy: The role of competitive markets:

Chair: Dr Nigel Evans, Regulatory Policy Institute

Prof Robert Hahn, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester (slides)

Dan Roberts, Frontier Economics (slides)

 

UK utility infrastructure investment: Who decides, who pays and who bears the risk? The evolving role of government, markets and the sectoral regulators

Chair: Peter Bucks, Regulatory Policy Institute

Nick Fincham, Thames Water Utilities Ltd.

Alan Lazarus, BT Group (slides)

Hannah Nixon, Ofgem (slides)