Board of Directors
Dirk Czarnitzki
Dirk Czarnitzki is Professor of Industrial Organization and Strategy at K.U.Leuven (Belgium). His research interests are mainly in the field of the economics of innovation with a focus on applied microeconometrics. The lines of research address topics such as the evaluation of public innovation policies, corporate governance and innovation, knowledge and technology transfer, as well as the economics of science. Dirk's work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economics Letters, the Review of Industrial Organization, Research Policy, the Journal of Productivity Analysis, Economics of Transition, the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Technology Transfer, and several others.
Justus Haucap
Justus Haucap is founding director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Partner of Düsseldorf Competition Economics. He has been a member of the German Monopolies Commission, which advises the German Government on issues related to competition policy and market regulation from 2006 until 2014. From 2008 until 2012 he served as the commission’s chairman. Justus heads the Competition Working Group of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he is deputy chairman of the Scientific Working Group for Regulatory Issues (WAR) of the Federal Network Agency, a member of the Kronberger Kreis (the scientific advisory board of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft), the board of trustees of the Fazit-Stiftung, the Scientific Council of the Brussels think tank Bruegel and numerous other advisory boards. Justus’ research focuses on the economics of network industries, in particular energy and telecommunications markets, as well as on digitization (e.g. Sharing Economy). His particular interest lies in the interfaces between law and economics and the economic effects of different institutional arrangements and rules.
He has contributed his expertise in all areas of competition economics, including merger proceedings (e.g. Edeka/Tengelmann, VTG/CIT, EnBW/MVV), abuse of market power and private antitrust enforcement. He has also advised numerous private and public institutions such as the European Parliament, the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the Federal Network Agency, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Sixt, RWE, EON, Siemens, UBER, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and many others.
Since 2013 he has been included annually in the list of the most influential economists in Germany by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. GCR’s Who’s Who named him as "a standout figure in the German market."
Paul Heidhues
Paul Heidhues is Professor of Behavioral and Competition Economics at Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). Before joining DICE, Paul was the first holder of the Lufthansa Chair in Competition and Regulation, and the director of PhD studies at ESMT from 2010 to 2016. He was an associate professor for Economic Theory at University of Bonn from 2005 to 2010 and a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) from 1999 to 2005. Paul received his Habilitation from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2005 and his PhD in Economics from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 2000.
Paul worked on numerous topics in Industrial Organization and Competition Policy such as input-market bargaining power, merger control, and collusion. More recently, much of his work focuses on the functioning of markets when consumers are partly driven by psychological factors – such as social preferences, loss aversion, time-inconsistency, or naivete – that the classic consumer model abstracts from. Among other things, he has written on how firms optimally price products and design credit contracts in response to consumers' psychological tendencies, and he has investigated the implications thereof for consumer-protection regulation.
Paul is a member of the Academic Panel of the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK, a member of the Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht of the German Antitrust Authority (Bundeskartellamt), a Research Fellow of the CEPR Programme in Industrial Organization, a Research Fellow of the CESifo Network in Behavioral Economics, and an elected member of the Industrieökonomischer Ausschuss as well as the Theoretischer Ausschuss of the Verein für Socialpolitik. His work appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse
Gaétan de Rassenfosse is Associate Professor of Science, Technology & Innovation Policy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). His research addresses the economics of innovation, with a special focus on intellectual property policy and data-science methods for measuring innovation. Before joining EPFL in 2014, he was a research fellow and later senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne (2010–2014); he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Gaétan’s work has appeared in leading journals such as Research Policy, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Law & Economics, among others.
Reinhilde Veugelers
Reinhilde Veugelers is professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). She was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, at Sloan School of Management (MIT), Stern Business School (NYU), ECARES/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universiteit Maastricht.
With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy and innovation, she has authored numerous publications on multinationals, R&D cooperation and alliances, industry-science links and market integration in leading international journals. She obtained research grants from the Belgian Science Policy Office, the European Commission (DG Research and DG ECFIN) and the Flemish Government (VRWB-IWT). From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave, as advisor at the European Commission (BEPA). She is currently a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a CEPR Research Fellow and a member of Commissioner Potocnik’s Knowledge for Growth expert group.
Susanne Thorwarth
Susanne Thorwarth is Managing Director of Düsseldorf Competition Economics, a consulting boutique on all aspects of competition and regulatory policy. From 2011 to 2013 she worked as a Senior Economist for the German Monopolies Commission. There, she dealt extensively with topics related to market power, international interdependencies and the measurement of market power in the energy sector. Previously, she worked for four years at the Centre for Research and Development Monitoring (ECOOM) of KU Leuven in Belgium, where she was responsible for data collection, processing and evaluation of Flemish innovation statistics.
She has extensive experience in advising clients in various areas of competition economics, in particular cartel damage (a. o. GIS, confectionaries, card payment, trucks) as well as merger cases (e.g. Edeka/Tengelmann, VTG/CIT, EnBW/MVV). Susanne is specialized in the field of data analysis and applied econometrics, with a focus on the quantification of damages in private litigation cases.
Susanne studied economics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and subsequently received her Doctor of Applied Economics from KU Leuven in Belgium. Her research results have been published in internationally renowned journals, including Economics Letters and Research Policy.