CRESSE - Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference

Testimonies

"This conference was really great, at all points: the place, the conference in itself ! and I can speak for several french researchers who were there with me, we really have had a pleasant stay in Greece. Thanks a lot for this organization and I’ll try to participate as often as I can to your conference."

Claire Chambolle, INRA and Ecole Polytechnique France

"Thank you very much for a very interesting and stimulating conference and a path-breaking workshop. I enjoyed the academic and the social interaction."

Peter Møllgaard, Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School

"Thank you very much for the great time we all had in Crete, both for the quality of the conference and the splendid atmosphere we have found there. It was one of the best conferences I have been to."

Andrea Mantovani, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna

"I really appreciated this high-level Conference. It was a great pleasure to participate."

Ginevra Bruzzone, Head of the Enterprise, Competition and Regulation Unit, ASSOMINE

"Thank you for organizing such a useful and nice conference."

Marta Troya Martinez, Department of Economics, Oxford University

"Thank you very much for your tremendous effort. The conference was really well organized and the presentations were very interesting. I enjoyed myself and I learnt a lot."

Joachim Klein, Munich Graduate School of Economics

"It was a great pleasure to present my paper at the CRESSE in Chania. It was excellent to have a scientific conference and a more practice-oriented summer school at the same time so I could socialise with people from academia and practice."

Benjamin Pakula, Dipl. Vw, Dipl. Kfm, Universität Gießen

"It was very good experience that we could learn with students worldwide who have high motivation. The contents of classes include both theory and practices. We also met latest issues during classes and conference. It must be a great motivator to have academic analysis at our research. It will also help to understand competition policy in the future."

Madoka Saegusa, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

"I would like to thank you for organising this great conference including the summer school.
We had a great time and met nice and interesting people. Indeed, there have been some really positive and constructive discussions that might result in some cooperations and papers etc. Maybe, we come up with a paper that we can submit for the conference next year. "

Katja Frank, PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Our team had good learnings and a very nice time on Crete."

Rainer Lademann, Managing Partner & Honorary Professor
Institute for Marketing and Retailing of the Georg-August University of Göttingen

"I would like to thank you for this great summer school. I was impressed by the lecturers we had and thought it was a very useful summer course. My fellow and I are actually organising a workshop for our colleagues at the Netherlands Competition Authority where we will set out what we learned those two weeks."

Anne-Claire Hoyng, Case-handler in merger control and anti-trust

Netherlands Competition Authority/ Antitrust Department

"The CRESSE Summer-School and Conference 2008 was really a great time. Nice people, good atmosphere and of course interesting lessons and lectures with perfect ability for discussions and networking."

Felix T. Rolli, PhD Student
University of Würzburg - Germany

"CRESSE is really a great opportunity not only for European people but also for people coming from non-European countries. It provided me with a thorough glimpse into how European professionals in law and economics work together to develop a sound competition policy. I really learned a lot about the interaction between theory and practice in competition policy and recognized the importance of theoretical foundation through some interesting case studies. Now, I also enjoy friendship with many European colleagues!"

Toru Hattori, Research Economist
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry - Japan

"The Competition and Regulation European Summer School was a very useful and pleasant experience. All modules I attended were very well prepared by excellent professors. The course covered different aspects regarding competition and regulation, providing updated information of the evolution of economic theory and the legal framework as well as empiric analysis. The nice location and the excellent organization completed perfectly the courses. I already recommended to other colleagues."

Andreea Radulescu, Expert (Market Analyses and Studies Division)
National Regulatory Authority for Communications & Information Technology (ANRCTI) - Romania

"I found CRESSE to be a great learning experience both for economics relating to competition and regulation and also for law. I would recommend this conference for lawyers who wish to gain a firm grounding in competition and regulatory economics, who wish to understand the policy issues relating to European and EU regulatory and competition enforcement and who also wish to meet academics, practitioners and applied economists in the regulatory and competition fields, who come from many different jurisdictions. The taught seminars are interesting, well prepared and well presented and the conference programme is well selected. The venue is very pleasant and easily accessible with friendly and helpful support staff and many opportunities for informal discussions."

Ashley Roughton, Barrister,
Hogarth Chambers - England

"CRESSE 2007 has been an important step in my path of understanding regulation and competition issues, especially from the theoretical point of view. The program's aim is to offer an extensive overview of a wide range of issues in industrial economics and law. It is mainly thought for professional and executives but even if you are a PhD student there is space enough to learn from this experience. I would recommend this summer school to young researchers and experienced willing to learn or refresh their knowledge on regulation and industrial organization."

Alberto Fossaluzza, PhD Student,
University of Padua - Italy

"Very Good Professors and great approach to content. The right methodology: including case analysis, and economic theory. Open to consider different realities from the classical economic situations that always apply. Good sharing of different experiences between the group. It was a very rich experience."

Beatriz Imperatori, Director,
Centromarca- Portugal

"The summer school was a great experience. I attended Motta and Lyon's classes, and they were both excellent and well-prepared teachers. The school was located in beautiful surroundings by the seaside. I would recommend the summer school to people working with competition or regulation."

Veronica Storlid Kvinge, Case handler,
Norwegian Competition Authority - Norway

"I enjoyed the Cresse Summer School and found the overall experience useful for my work in international regulatory affairs department in Telecom Italia. It was also very useful to meet the colleagues from all over the Europe, coming both from the Authorities and from the sector Companies and to exchange the ideas on the problems that we have to face in our every day work. Last but not least, I appreciated the efficiency and the friendship of the organizers and of other participants."

Pinar Serdengecti, Analyst,
Telecom Italia - Italy

"It was a unique experience, where the learning was well connected to the beauty of the scenery; the teaching team was perfect, the subjects discussed were interesting and very much apropos, the organization was great while the opportunity to meet colleagues from other countries is appreciated as a strong point of a successful summer school."

Demetra Kalli, Case handler
Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition - Cyprus

"The European Summer School for Executives was a good experience. One cannot underestimate the value of meeting foreign collegues at the NRAs and also participants from companies dealing with related issues. The courses were motivating and useful. The teachers were obviously skilled. The school provided lectures at different levels, and one could find modules that suited different needs. Overall good service at a nice and convenient scenery."

Gunnar Angaard, Senior Adviser,
Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority - Norway

"It was a great experience. Excellent courses combined with the beauty of the island of Corfu and the efficient organization."

Chrysostomos Kostis
National Center for Public Administration - Greece

"I enjoyed the Summer School very much. Excellent courses. Very good speakers, well presented and lots of opportunity to discuss both in small groups and in the larger group. Attending the courses allowed me to enlarge my interests.
Thank you very much for the good organization."

Emilie Dargaud, PhD Student
GATE - France

"Perfect organization, careful choice of modules, top professors, interesting empirical and theoretical approaches. A great experience that endowed us useful skills and knowledge for our academic and professional activities."

Theodora Perrou, PhD Student
Athens University of Economics and Business - Greece