CRESSE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPETITION POLICY: PROCEDURES, INSTITUTIONS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS INTRODUCTION

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THE COMPETITION AND REGULATION EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL AND CONFERENCE (CRESSE) is an informal network of academics and professionals with an interest in competition policy and sectoral regulation. It was initiated by Yannis Katsoulacos (Athens University of Economics and Business) in 2005 and has since grown to become an important event in the competition and regulation annual conferences calendar, with the continuous support ofMassimoMotta (EuropeanUniversity Institute, Florence), Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse) and David Ulph (University of St. Andrews). The objective is to provide a forum in which the latest research in the areas of competition and regulation is presented and discussed. CRESSE Conference themes have been ‘Abuses of Dominance’ (2006), ‘Competition and Regulation in Network Industries’ (2007), ‘Competition Policy: Procedures, Institutions, IPR’s’ (2008) and ‘Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy’ (2009). Presentations in the two-day annual Conference include 3–5 invited papers and a limited number (typically 25%–30%) of papers selected from those submitted following a call in the major IO journals. The annual CRESSEConference is held in early July inGreece, the institution responsible for its organization being the Athens University of Economics and Business. CRESSE also organizes an annual summer school in which visiting faculty from a large number of European and U.S. universities provide high quality training topractitioners of competitionpolicy and sectoral regulationwhowish to be up to date with new economic literature and recent legal developments. It is also active in disseminating research in the areas of competition policy and regulation and in contributing, through the organization of special policy sessions and round tables, to public debates on specific policy issues. The annual CRESSE Conference typically has two keynote lectures (the Jean-Jacques Laffont Lecture and theCRESSEConference PolicyLecture),