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Call for Papers Fourth Mannheim Energy Conference
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) are pleased to announce the 4th Mannheim Energy Conference on May 7–8, 2015. International scholars and practitioners from various disciplines are invited to discuss the lessons learned…
read moreMaCCI hosts twelfth Annual Conference of the Association of Competition Economics
On December 5 and 6, 2014, MaCCI hosted the twelfth Annual Conference of the Association of Competition Economics. About 170 participants attended the nine parallel sessions on recent competition cases and developments, a panel discussion on exclusionary pricing practices, and the keynote lecture by…
read moreBest Paper Award for MaCCI Doctoral Student Stefan Weiergräber
MaCCI doctoral student Stefan Weiergräber has received the first Econ Job Market Best Paper Award by Unicredit & Universities Foundation for his job market paper, entitled "Network Effects and Switching Costs in the US Wireless Industry."
read moreMaCCI Law Professor Müller-Terpitz Becomes New Head of KEK (German Commission for the Determination of Concentration in the Media)
Ralf Müller-Terpitz, who joined the law department of the University of Mannheim and MaCCI in 2013, was elected to be the new head of the KEK commission, which is in charge of securing the plurality of opinion in nationally-transmitted private television. The vote for Müller-Terpitz was unanimous…
read moreSEEK-BRUEGEL Workshop on Legal and Illegal Cartels in Europe
On September 10, MaCCI Researchers Konrad Stahl and Kai Hüschelrath gave presentations at a joint SEEK-BRUEGEL Workshop on legal and illegal cartels in Europe. The half-day event attracted both academics as well as practitioners and was the final event of two cartel-related SEEK projects. The…
read moreMaCCI Research Presentations at EARIE Annual Conference
MaCCI researchers Raffaele Fiocco, Sven Heim, Kai Hüschelrath, Christian Köhler, Michael Kummer, Ulrich Laitenberger, Yanping Liu, Andras Niedermayer, Martin Peitz, Bettina Peters, Fabienne Rasel, Chengsi Wang, Stefan Weiergräber, and Nikolas Wölfing presented ongoing research at the 41th Annual…
read moreMaCCI Contributions at CRESSE
At this year's CRESSE annual summer school and conference, MaCCI senior members Volker Nocke and Martin Peitz will teach during the summer school. Volker Nocke will teach on the economics of mergers, Martin Peitz on competition and regulation in two-sided markets. At the CRESSE conference, Volker…
read moreGerman Science Foundation (DFG) Funds MaCCI Project by Nocke and Peitz with 480,000 Euro
The German Science Foundation (DFG) funds the project "Vertical Relations and Market Structure" by MaCCI senior researchers Volker Nocke and Martin Peitz for another three years from fall 2014 to fall 2017. Nocke and Peitz start with the observation that firms with market power are pervasive not…
read moreConference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies
On 16 and 17 June 2014, MaCCI and ZEW held the 12th Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies. The conference aimed at discussing recent scientific contributions to the economics of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the economics of ICT industries.…
read moreMannheim Energy Conference
On 5 and 6 May 2014, MaCCI and ZEW held the third Mannheim Energy Conference. The conference attracted about 90 international energy experts from science, politics and industry and covered 41 presentations in 5 parallel sessions. Special highlights of the conference were the four keynote lectures…
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