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MaCCI Researchers on the Board of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO)

Volker Nocke has been appointed to the Advisory Board of IJIO; he served as Co-Editor from 2008–2011.

Nicolas Schutz has been appointed as Co-Editor of the journal; he previously served as Associate Editor.

Innovation Scholars convene at ZEW Mannheim for Tenth Anniversary of ZEW/MaCCI Conference on Innovation & Patenting

On September 26-27 2024 more than 90 innovation scholars gathered at ZEW Mannheim for the Tenth ZEW/MaCCI Conference on Innovation and Patenting. As highlights the conference featured keynote lectures by Carlos Serrano from HEC Paris on “From Failure to Fortune: IP Strategy in Uncertain Times” and…

MaCCI Members at EARIE Conference in Amsterdam

Volker Nocke gave one of two keynote lectures at this year’s annual EARIE conference in Amsterdam. The title of his lecture was “Advances in Oligopoly Theory: Aggregative and Potential Games”. MaCCI members Bernhard Ganglmair, Julian Klix, Robin Ng, Helena Perrone, Max Riegel, and Nicolas Schutz…

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…

MaCCI / JRC Digital Economics Workshop

On 26 June, MaCCI and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission jointly organized a half-day workshop on digital economics. Researchers…

MaCCI 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,…

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…

Heike 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…

Second 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,…

MaCCI 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…