Program

International Conference

“Contracts, Procurement and Public-Private Agreements”

Paris, June 14^th& 15^th 2010

PROGRAM

June 14^th
Amphitheater LIARD, 17 rue de la Sorbonne

08h45–9h00      Opening session      

Keynote 1

9h00 – 9h45          Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) and Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel U. and U. Tor Vergata)

“Building Reputation for Contract Renewal: Implications for Performance Dynamics and Contract Duration” 

9h45 – 10h45     Session 1 (Chair: Stéphane Saussier, IAE Sorbonne Graduate Business School)

9h45 – 10h15  Jean Beuve (IAE Sorbonne Graduate Business School) and Claudine Desrieux (ERMES – U. Paris II)  

“Reputation and the Dynamics of Contractual Incompleteness”

10h15 – 10h45  Ricard Gil and Justin Marion (U. of California-Santa Cruz)

“The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement Auctions”

10h45 – 11h15

Coffee Break at the Sorbonne, “Salle des Autorités”

---

 11h15 – 12h45 Session 2 (Chair: Carine Staropoli, U. of Paris I )

11h15 – 11h45 Sandro Cabral and Antonio Francisco Silva Junior (Federal University of Bahia)

 “PPP and Football Stadiums: A Real-Options Approach”

11h45–12h15 Frederic Blanc-Brude and Olivia Jensen (King's College London / Infrastructure Economics)

“Competition for long-term public-private risk transfer contracts – Ex ante and ex post efficiency in public-private partnerships and evidence from the school sector in the UK”

12h15 – 12h45 Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics) 

“Incomplete Contracts and Costs Overruns”  

 12h45 – 14h00

Lunch at the Sorbonne, “Salle des Autorités

 14h00 -15h00 Session 3 (Chair: Emmanuel Raynaud, INRA SAD-APT)

14h00 – 14h30 Phuong Doan and Kanak Patel (University of Cambridge)

  “Toll road investment under uncertainty"  

14h30 – 15h00 Pierre M Picard (U. of Luxembourg) and Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics)

“ A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts”

15h00 -16h00 Session 4 (Chair: Ricard Gil, U. of California, Santa Cruz)

15h00 – 15h30 Dario Gianluigi De Maio (University of Sienna)

 "Reputation, Predation and Market Structure"

15h30-16h00 Eva Hoppe and Patrick Schmitz  (University of Köln)

  “Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental evidence »

 16h00–16h30

Coffee Break at the Sorbonne, “Salle des Autorités”

16h30 – 17h30 Session 5 (Chair: Eric Brousseau, U. of Paris X)

16h30 – 17h00 Barbosa Klenio (Toulouse School of Economics)

“Free-Riding in Procurement Design”

17h00–17h30 Paola Valbonesi (U. of Padova) and Maria Bigoni (U. of Bologna) and Giancarlo Spagnolo (U. of Roma)

 “ Sticks and Carrots in Procurement: an Experimental Exploration”

17h30 – 18h30 Session 6 (Chair: Stéphane Straub, Toulouse School of Economics)

17h30 – 18h00 Liam Wren-Lewis (Oxford University)

“Commitment in utility regulation: A model of reputation and policy applications”

18h00 – 18h30 Ariane Lambert Mogiliansky and Frédéric Koessler (Paris School of Economics)

“Committing to Transparency to Resist Corruption”

 18h30–22h00

Cocktail & Dinner at the Sorbonne, “Salle des Autorités”

---

June 15^th

Amphitheater LIARD, 17 rue de la Sorbonne

Keynote 2

9h00 – 9h45 Giacomo Calzolari, (U. of Bologna) and Giancarlo Spagnolo (U. of Roma)

 "Relational Contracts and Competitive Screening"

9h45 – 10h45 Session 7 (Chair: Joanne Oxley, U. of Toronto)

9h45 – 10h15 Janet Bercovitz (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

“Who I Am and How I Contract: Roles, Relational Capital and Evolution of Contract Structure in University-Industry Research Agreements” 

10h15 – 10h45  John Hagedoorn and Geerte Hesen (U. of Maastricht)

“Contractual Complexity of R&D Alliances – A two-dimensional analysis of the determinants of contractual complexity”

10h45–11h15

Coffee Break

---

 11h15 – 12h45 Session 8 (Chair: Claude Ménard, U. of Paris I)

11h15 – 11h45 Guillem Canneva and Serge Garcia (AgroParisTech – ENGREF)

“Private Information and Competition in Tenders for Delegation: An Econometric Analysis of Water Services in France”

11h45–12h15 Aude le Lannier (IAE Sorbonne Graduate Business School)

“Enforcement of Yardstick Contracts & Consistency in Performance Rankings: An Application to the England and Wales Regulated Water Industry”

12h15 – 12h45 Patrick Schmitz and Eva Hoppe  (University of Köln)

“Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering” 

 12h45–14h00

Lunch at the Sorbonne “Salle des Autorités”

14h00 – 15h00 Session 9 (Chair: Claudine Desrieux, U. of Paris 2)

14h00 – 14h30 Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi University)

"Japan Writing Legally Unenforceable Contracts to Facilitate Relationships"

14h30 – 15h00 Marina Halac (Columbia University)

 “ Relationship Building”

15h00 – 16h30 Session 10 (Chair: Anne Yvrande-Billon, U. Paris I)

15h00 – 15h30 Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel U. and U. Tor Vergata), Salvatore Piccolo (U. of Naples, CSEF)  and Ginacarlo Spagnolo (U. of Roma)

"Implicit Contracts and Flexibility in Public Procurement" 

15h30 – 16h00 Chong  Eshien (U. of Paris 11) and Claudine Desrieux (U. of Paris 2) and Stéphane Saussier (IAE Sorbonne Graduate Business School)

“Putting all one’s eggs in one Basket: Relational contracts and the provision of local public services”

16h00 – 16h30 Axel Gautier (Université de Liège)

 “Scoring-rule and the choice of a contractor by a financially constrained government”

16h30–17h00

Coffee at the Sorbonne

---

 Keynote 3

17h00 – 17h45  Pablo Spiller (U. of California, Berkely)  

“Transaction Cost Regulation"

  END OF THE CONFERENCE

---

Our Partners: