About MaCCI
The major objective of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) is to stimulate and disseminate research in the area of competition, regulation and innovation policy, broadly defined. It is an initiative by the School of Law and Economics of the University of Mannheim and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW).
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News
March 2013: Call for Papers: Mannheim Energy Conference 2013 (June 25-26, 2013)
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) are pleased to announce the Mannheim Energy Conference 2013 on June 24 and 25, 2013. Researchers and practitioners from various disciplines will discuss the lessons learned from more than 15 years of power market liberalisation in Europe. New opportunities and future challenges arising from European environmental targets will also be subjects of debate. Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from all areas of the economics of national and international energy markets are welcome. Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a paper or an extended abstract (at least 3 pages) as PDF file to energy2013@zew.de no later than April 15, 2013.
February 2013: Nocke Vice Chair of the Industrial Economics Section of the German Economic Association
At its annual meeting Volker Nocke has been elected vice chair of the industrial economics section of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economics Association) for the period 2013 to 2015.
February 2013: Second International Annual Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus MaCCI at ZEW
The Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), a joint initiative of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim, held its second Annual MaCCI Conference at ZEW on February 15 and 16, 2013. About 100 participants were attending the two-day conference.
The first day of the conference covered presentations and panel sessions on reforms of the competition law on vertical restraints and on the underlying economic insights. The second day was devoted to topics from all fields of competition law and economics. 30 researchers and practitioners presented their current research in twelve sessions.
February 2013: Volker Nocke Becomes Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Theory
As the only researcher based in Germany, MaCCI Senior Member Volker Nocke has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics.
January 2013: Volker Nocke Organizes the Core Program of the Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association
Volker Nocke organizes the core program "Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order" of this year's annual conference of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) which will take place September 4-7, 2013 at the University of Düsseldorf. As keynote speakers he managed to attract: Michael Katz, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, University of California and Director of the Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence, Michael D. Winston, Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor of Business Institutions, Northwestern University and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization, Joe Harrington, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Patrick Rey, Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse, Member of the Toulouse School of Economics, and IDEI Researcher, Mark Armstrong, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe and Kai-Uwe Kühn, Chief Competition Economist at the DG Competition of the EU and Associate Professor of the University of Michigan.