CENTRE for COMPETITION and REGULATORY POLICY WORKSHOP – Winter 2014 Room AG09

CENTRE FOR COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY WORKSHOP – Winter 2014 Room AG09 - College Building, St John Street Entrance Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB 23rd JANUARY 2014 1:00-2:00 REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS SESSION 1 CHAIR: XENI DASSIOU WILLIAM GBONEY – INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFRASTRUCTURAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Measurement of Regulatory Effectiveness of Regulatory Agencies in Africa’s Energy Sector 2:00-3:00 DISCUSSANT: JON STERN, CCRP PETER LANGHAM – NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE Deciding Prices in Public Services Markets: Principles for Value for Money DISCUSSANT: XENI DASSIOU 3:00-3:20 COFFEE BREAK SESSION 2

CHAIR: STEPHEN GIBSON CAROLINE ELLIOTT – UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Competition and Collusion in the British Independent School Sector DISCUSSANT: STEPHEN GIBSON, SLG Economics Ltd VOLODYMYR BILOTKACH – NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY 3:20-4:50 Cost Efficiency Benchmarking of European Navigation Service Providers DISCUSSANT: DEREK HOLT, Alix Partners FRANCESC TRILLAS & PAU CASTELLS - UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Profits and Political Connections: The Spanish Puzzle DISCUSSANT: TIM TUTTON, CCRP 24th JANUARY 2014 - Room AG09 9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE SESSION 3 CHAIR: JON STERN NIGEL CLAYTON – CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON Meta –regulation: for better or for worse? DISCUSSANT: STEVE SMITH, Lloyds Banking Group & Regulatory Policy Institute 9:30-10:30 LALA IRELAND – UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Boundaries and Overlaps between Economic Regulation and Competition for Developing Countries DISCUSSANT: FRANCESC TRILLAS , UAB 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK AND ROUNTABLE REGISTRATION

11:00-13:00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (SEE NEXT PAGE) 13:00-14:00 Buffet Lunch and Close of Winter workshop

CENTRE FOR COMPETITION AND REGULATORY POLICY (CCRP) Competition Policy Round Table Competition and Regulation Boundaries; Concurrency and its Future Friday 24th January 2014 Room AG07, College Building – 11:00AM Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB Access from St John Street, College Building entrance (Registration commences at 10:40 at the St John entrance area) The Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy (CCRP) is delighted to host a Round Table on the UK’s Competition Regime. The 2014 Roundtable Table will focus on Concurrency.

Round Table Chairman

John Cubbin (Emeritus Professor, City University London)

Panel members

Lord Currie (Chairman, Competition and Markets Authority) Luis Correia da Silva (Managing Director- Oxera) Peter Freeman CBE, QC (Chairman – Competition Appeal Tribunal) Jon Stern , Honorary Visiting Professor, CCRP, City University London Catherine Waddams (Professor of Regulation, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia) Roger Witcomb (Chairman - Competition Commission)

Join us to an extremely topical discussion on the role of sectoral regulation and the CMA within the UK’s re-drawn institutional landscape. Xeni Dassiou Director, CCRP