June 25, 2026
ECR Symposium Programme
Network of Industrial Economists Early Career Researcher Symposium. Sponsored by Charles River Associates — including the RSS Best Paper Prize awarded at the close of the day.
Industrial Policy Environment CRA · Competition AI & Market Efficiency
09:00
Registration – ECR Symposium
09:20
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Industrial Policy
09:30–11:00
Rhys Williams
Who Gets the Dough? Explaining the Gluten Free Price Premium
University of Cambridge
Yuxuan Liu
Flood Risk and House Prices: Evidence from the UK Housing Market
University of Sheffield
Glory Okutue
The Trade Task after Brexit: Evidence from UK Vacancy Data
University of Nottingham
11:00
Coffee Break – 15 min
Environment
11:15–12:45
Antonio Fuso
Determinants of Renewable Energy Community Diffusion: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Italian Municipalities
University of Bari
Sébastien Montpetit
Are Climate Policies Marginal? A Welfare Evaluation of Environmental Reforms
University of Warwick
Zhenyu Fu
Do ESG Ratings Reflect Corporate Carbon Performance? Evidence from UK-Listed Firms
University of Nottingham
12:45
Lunch Break – 60 min
CRA Session · Competition
13:45–14:15
Charles River Associates
Ignacio Núñez
Market Allocation in Differentiated Bertrand Competition
Charles River Associates
AI & Market Efficiency
14:15–15:45
Fengxiang He
Rationality Measurement and Theory for Reinforcement Learning Agents
University of Edinburgh
Domenika Ušková
When Peers Fail: Data Breach Signals and the Competitive Advantage of Non-Breached Firms
University of Warwick
Ivan Rendo
Excessive Content Moderation
University of Toulouse
15:45
RSS Best Paper Award & Concluding Remarks
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