PROGRAM
CONFERENCE ON PRIVATIZATION AND LIBERALIZATION, with a focus on
NETWORK INDUSTRIES AND EASTERN EUROPE
June 16‐17 2011
SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY and
STOCKHOLM INSTITUTE OF TRANSITION ECONOMICS at the Stockholm School of Economics
Thursday, June 16
Location: Södertörn University, room MA755
Friday, June 17
Location: IFL, Sveavägen 63 (next to
Stockholm School of Economics), Room Märta Sigrid, 1 st floor
8.30 Registration. Room MA755 9.00 Opening. Room MA755 9.15 Parallel sessions 10.45 Coffee break
11:15 Keynote: Antonio Estache, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Parallel sessions 14.45 Coffee break
15.15 Invited talk & parallel sessions 16.15 Coffee break
16.30 Parallel sessions 18.00 End of day
19.30 Conference dinner. Hotel Terminus
9.00 Introduction: Torbjörn Becker 9.10 Panel 1: Telecom
Chair: Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, EBRD Speakers: Claes‐Göran Sundelius, VP Regulatory Affairs, TeliaSonera; Andrei
Smelkov, Chairman of the Management Board, Neo Mobile Telecom Service LLP, Kazakhstan;
Ian Streule, Senior Manager, Analysys Mason;
Kristina Ekengren, Deputy Director, Swedish Ministry of Finance
10.40 Coffee break
11.00 Panel 2: Electricity/energy
Chair: Antonio Estache, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Speakers: Simon Ollus, Chief Economist, Fortum; Roger Kearsley, Asst. Commercial Manager, Svenska Kraftnät; Niclas
Damsgaard, Director, Energy Markets, Sweco;
Milko Kovachev, Regional Director Power for Asia and Middle East, Worley Parsons 12.30 Lunch
PARALLEL SESSIONS, JUNE 16
Morning session (9.15 – 10.45) Room 1: Institutions
Ion Imbrescu: The relationship between privatization and underground economy
Nicola Ruccia: Privatization and liberalization of SGEIS in Eastern Europe: A role for EU law?
Dheeraj Verma: Privatization in Russia
Room 2: Transport & telecom
Björn Hasselgren: Challenges and reorganization models for government in transport infrastructure Dónal Palcic: Getting it all wrong: Lessons from the privatisation of telecommunications in Ireland Anna Tomová: Privatising Bratislava: Small airport ‐ big problem
Room 3: Banks and services
Laura Cojocaru: Privatization and reform of the financial sector in the former communist countries Dilyana Dimova: The benefits of privatizing banks to strategic foreign investors: A survey of Central and Eastern Europe
Bogdan Klishchuk: Impact of services liberalization on firm level productivity in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Room 4: Impact of ownership and competition
Vera Adamchik: Ownership and wages in the Polish network industries, 1994‐2008
Alban Hashani: The revenue efficiency of companies in successor states of former Yugoslavia: The impact of ownership
Motasam Tatahi: Enterprise performance, privatization and the role of ownership in Poland Ariane Tichit: How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
After lunch session (13.15 – 14.45) Room 1: Early privatizations
Bulent Acma: Privatization experience in Turkey: Policies and applications (1985‐2010) Jonas Prager: The political and economic evolution of Turkish privatization policy: 1923 – 1999 Emine Zeytinli: Role of the state in Poland and Turkey in transition period
Room 2: Electricity I
Nadezda Chernenko: Prices, tariffs and market power in the Russian wholesale electricity market under reform
Lukasz Grzybowski: Politics and prices of fuels in Poland
Malgorzata Sadowska: Energy liberalization in antitrust straitjacket: A plant too far?
Sherzod Tashpulatov: Analysis of electricity industry liberalization in Great Britain: how did the bidding behaviour of electricity producers change?
Room 3: Water and airports
Hayet Ben Said: Delegated management of water in the irrigated area: Analysis in terms of remediable inefficiencies
Rui Cunha Marques: Why has privatization in water utilities failed?
Juergen Mueller: Airport entry and exit: An analysis of CEE countries
Room 4: Telecom
Michał Grajek: Regulation and investment in network industries: Evidence from European telecoms Vahagn Jerbashian: The telecommunications industry and economic
Michael R. Ward: The effects of market liberalization and privatization on Chinese telecommunications
Afternoon session (15.15 – 16.15)
Room 4: Invited talk: Barbara Blaszczyk: Privatization in Poland after 20 years. Expectations and outcomes
Evening session (16.30 – 18.00) Room 1: Privatization and performance
Valentina Cattivelli: Capitalism in Southern Italian cities: Measurement and benchmarking Mihaela M. Similie: Regulation of Network industries with a focus on Eastern European countries Werner Welf: Privatization and deregulation of network industries in Germany ‐ The role of the European Union
Room 2: Electricity II
Ferdinand E. Banks: Some economic and historical aspects of electric deregulation
Nazende Özkaramete Coşkun & M.Nejat Coşkun: Privatization of electricity distribution: The case of Turkey
Grzegorz Pac: Environmental quality for state‐owned and privatized firms: Evidence from sulphur dioxide emissions within the Eastern European electricity and heat Industry
Laura Solanko: How to liberalize a thousand TWh market? ‐ Restructuring the Russian power sector
Room 3: Airports
Volodymyr Bilotkach: Regulation, privatization, and airport charges: panel data evidence from European airports
Alena Novák Sedláčková: Bratislava airport´s case study after application of created regulation formula of economic regulation of airport charges
Tolga Ülkü: Privatization of Turkish airports
Room 4: Regulation and auctions
Yumiko Baba: The optimal and efficient auction mechanisms with complements
Georg Goetz: Biased quality investments and organisational structures in network industries – An application to the railway Industry
Ivan Major: Regulation of network industries in Central and Eastern Europe
