News Archive
Digital Economy Scholars Flock to ZEW for Conference
On 27 and 28 June, 2024, more than 80 researchers gathered at ZEW Mannheim to participate in the 22nd ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information…
read moreMaCCI Law & Economics Conference on Recent Developments in Merger Control
The 13th edition of the MaCCI Law & Economics conference was held on 20 and 21 June. Organized by MaCCI senior members Jens-Uwe Franck, Volker Nocke,…
read more
MaCCI Summer Institute
This year's Summer Institute in Competition Policy was held on June 10-14 in Annweiler. MaCCI researchers and invited scholars presented a diverse…
read moreHeike Schweitzer passed away
Heike Schweitzer passed away on June 11 at the age of 56. We all are losing a brilliant law scholar and intellectual leader in competition law. MaCCI…
read moreSecond CREST-Mannheim Workshop
The second edition of the CREST-Mannheim workshop (also known as "Journées Mannheim-Palaiseau-Paris") took place in Paris and Palaiseau on May 16-17. Researchers from CREST and MaCCI met in Paris and Palaiseau to discuss recent research on price discrimination, merger control, platform pricing,…
read moreMaCCI IO Day 2024
This year’s MaCCI IO Day was held on 24 May 2024. More than 30 members gathered for a day of presentations and discussions of papers on pricing (and "shrinkflation"), privacy, competition with recommendation systems, procurement, and trade. We were particularly happy to welcome Yossi Spiegel, who…
read moreTen MaCCI Researchers Present their Work at the IIOC in Boston
MaCCI was well represented at this year’s International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston with ten of its members. Mathilde Cappelletti, Jacopo Gambato, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nadine Hahn, Daniil Larionov, Robin Ng, Volker Nocke, Helena Perrone, Luca Sandrini, and Nicolas Schutz presented…
read moreVolker Nocke wins Robert F. Lanzilotti Prize in Antitrust Economics
The article “Acquihiring for Monopsony Power” by MaCCI Researcher Volker Nocke and co-authors Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto) and Justin Johnson (Cornell University) has been awarded the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics presented at the International…
read moreMaCCI Member speaks at the IMCO Meeting of the European Parliament
MaCCI Director Martin Peitz made proposals on the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act as an invited expert to the meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).
read more