4th Annual Conference on "Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment" October 19th -21st 2006 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain   We invite interested scholars and others to participate in the 4th Annual Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition, and Investment to be held at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, October 19th-21st, 2006. This conference is jointly organized by the Institut D’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) at Toulouse, the Transportation Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, the Department of Economics of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Department of Applied Economics of the Universidad de Las Palmas (ULPGC). This is an international forum open to professional economists, policymakers and managers. Research on the railroad industry around the world will be presented and discussed. We will compare experiences across countries, analyse some of the industry main problems, debate theoretical issues and discuss case studies. We encourage participation of scholars and practitioners interested in railroad economics and related fields, such as regulatory and industrial economics, productivity analysis, finance or labour economics. The First Railroad Conference was held in Toulouse in 2003 and focused on the restructuring of the European passenger rail network. The Second Conference in 2004, at Evanston, emphasized the restructuring of freight railroad services. The Third Conference in 2005 at Stockholm was devoted to the comparative analysis of railroad systems. The Fourth Conference will focus on the development of high-speed networks, the overall role of the railroad industry as a tool for regional development and questions of intermodality. The Scientific Committee Ronald Braeutigam (Northwestern U.), Guido Friebel (IDEI), Robert Gallamore (Northwestern U.), Marc Ivaldi (IDEI), Gerard McCullough (Minnesota), Chris Nash (University of Leeds), John Panzar (Northwestern), Russell Pittman (U.S. Department of Justice), Ginés de Rus (ULPGC), Jean Tirole (IDEI), and the members of the Organizing Committee: Alvaro Escribano (UC3M), Philippe Gagnepain (UC3M), Diego Moreno (UC3M) and Javier Campos (ULPGC). Registration for presenters and non-presenters Any individual wishing to participate in the Conference should complete and return the Registration Form. The registration fee for non-speaker participants will be 200 Euros. Document Downloads Program [PDF] Papers Pictures of the Conference Registration Form [Word Doc] Accommodation [Word Doc] and Access to the Campus [Word Doc] Original Call for Papers [PDF] and Reply Form [Word Doc] We hope you will be able to join us for an intellectually challenging conference, with potentially significant academic, strategic, and policy outcomes. Yours sincerely, The Organizing Committee