EEA Annual Congress with MaCCI Competition and Innovation Panel

From 24-27 August, 2015, the 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) will be held in Mannheim. Whereas the conference includes about 300 sessions on all areas of economics, the highlights from MaCCI’s perspective are the plenary session with 2014 Nobel price winner Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) on August 27 at 16:00 and the MaCCI Competition and Innovation Panel on August 27 at 12:40 in room SO 108 inside the Mannheim Palace. The panelists are John van Reenen (London School of Economics), Michele Boldrin (Washington University Saint Louis) and Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute Munich). Together with the chair of the session, MaCCI senior member Martin Peitz, they will discuss concrete policy options for the design and protection of intellectual property.