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Eleventh MaCCI Law and Economics Conference
On 10 and 11 November 2022, the eleventh MaCCI Law and Economics Conference took place in Mannheim. The conference, organized by MaCCI Senior Member Jens-Uwe Franck and MaCCI Advisory Board Member Heike Schweitzer, focused on the twentieth anniversary of Regulation 1/2003 and raised the question of…
read moreMaCCI Members Contribute to ACE Conference
MaCCI members Helena Perrone and Martin Peitz participated in the Annual Conference of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) in Lisbon, 17-18 November. Helena Perrone commented on the Arm-Nvidia vertical merger case; Martin Peitz contributed to a plenary panel on net neutrality and the fair…
read moreNinth ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting
After a two-year COVID break, the 9th Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting took place on 3 and 4 November at ZEW Mannheim. The conference covered a wide range of topics in the economics of innovation, digitalization, firm performance, technology transfer, and intellectual property…
read moreEconomic Experts on Public Procurement Meet in Mannheim for the Fourth Time
On 27 and 28 October, 2022, the fourth edition of the ZEW Workshop “Economics of Public Procurement” took place at the premises of ZEW Mannheim. This year's edition was jointly organized with the University of Turku and the VATT Institute for Economic Research.
read moreNew Research on the Effects of Cartels Presented at a Series of MaCCI/EPoS Seminars
On October 18, Mitsuru Igami (Yale University) and Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven) presented new empirical work on the effects of cartels. Prof. Igami's talk focused on the interplay between incentives to collude and incentives to innovate in a tractable dynamic-oligopoly model of the LCD panel industry.…
read moreMaCCI Member Speaks at Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum
MaCCI member Martin Peitz was a speaker at the Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum in the session on media mergers. The forum took place on 27-28 September in Rio de Janeiro.
read moreMaCCI/EPoS Fireside Talk on Adam Smith and American Capitalism
In our second Fireside Talk, Martin Peitz talked to Glory Liu (Harvard) about her upcoming book “Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.”
read moreNew Evidence on the Sustainability of Cartels Presented in a Series of MaCCI/EPoS Seminars
Nicolas de Roos (Sydney University) and Mathias Reyaert (Toulouse School of Economics) visited Mannheim to present their recent work on cartels in a…
read moreMaCCI/EPoS Seminar Presentation by Nicolas de Roos
Tuesday September 6, 13:45-15:00, presentation of “Informed Sources and the Role of Platforms for Facilitating Anticompetitive Communication” by…
read moreMaCCI Member Joins the Executive Committee of EARIE
MaCCI member Nicolas Schutz has become a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) for a three-year term.
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