Faculty
Keynote Speaker
Dietmar Harhoff
Dietmar Harhoff is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Honorary Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.
He graduated with a Diploma degree in mechanical engineering, and started his professional career as a research engineer in the United Kingdom and Germany. He was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University and gained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Max Planck Institute, he was Director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at LMU, Research Professor at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Associate Scientific Director at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and Head of the ZEW Research Group on Corporate Taxation and Public Finance. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Applied Economics Quarterly, Review of Managerial Science, the European Management Review, Management Review Quarterly and Small Business Economics, and is an Advisory Editor of Research Policy.
Dietmar is the former Chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) of the German Federal Government. Furthermore, he is currently serving as a member of the Expert Group for the Implementation of UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Bavarian AI Council.
Dietmar’s work has been published in Research Policy, Management Science, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters and many more.
Fiona Scott Morton
Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management. Her field of economics is industrial organization and within this field she focuses on empirical studies of competition. The topics of her current research are the economics of competition enforcement and competition in healthcare markets.
From 2011-12 Fiona served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws. She frequently presents to, and advises, government agencies tasked with enforcing competition law. At Yale she teaches courses in the area of competitive strategy and competition economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and has won the School’s teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more competition policy programming to Yale students and the wider competition community. Professor Scott Morton holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT, both in Economics.
She serves as an economic expert in a consumer class action against Meta and for an advertiser class against Google in the UK as well as an expert for Microsoft in multi-jurisdictional competition matters. Furthermore, she regularly consults for government agencies as an economic expert in confidential antitrust and merger cases.
Speaker
Philipp Böing
Philipp Böing is a senior researcher in ZEW’s Research Unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” and teaches at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on innovation incentives and the impact of innovation on firm performance and economic growth. His work is characterised by the use of unique micro data, econometric analyses and empirical advances. Böing is particularly interested in policy evaluation, patent indicators, productivity and import competition.
Combined with a strong empirical focus on China and its global rise, he pursues a critical understanding of data-generating processes and institutions in China. He has advised the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the German Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), among others. Previously, Böing was an assistant professor at Peking University and Taiwan Fellow at Academia Sinica. He is a research affiliate of the IZA – Research Institute of Labor Economics and a fellow of Tsinghua University.
Bruno Cassiman
Bruno Cassiman is Professor of Strategy at the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven in Belgium. Before joining KU Leuven full-time he was Professor of Strategy and the Nissan Chair of Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School in Barcelona.
His research interests have centred on the economics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on the connections between science and industry in the innovation process and the complementarity between different innovation activities. His work has been published in the leading Economics and Management journals such as The American Economic Review, Management Science, The Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Organization, The European Economic Review, The International Journal of Industrial Organization, The Journal of International Business Studies and, Research Policy. Furthermore, he was the department editor of the Business Strategy department at Management Science from 2009 to 2017.
Thorsten Doherr
Thorsten Doherr studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim. Since 1995, he is working as a computer scientist at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, unit "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics". After decades of taming data to make it digestible for PhD students, it was time to switch sides and become one of them as an external PhD Student at the University of Luxembourg. This endeavor was rewarded in June 2018 with a PhD in Economics. His main research field is the disambiguation of inventor and researcher careers to utilize this information for economic research, like brain drain as an effect of high skilled labor mobility or reactions of researchers to policy changes
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.
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Margaret Kyle
Margaret Kyle (MINES ParisTech and CEPR) currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology at MINES ParisTech. Her research concerns innovation, productivity and competition. She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Recent work examines the effect of trade and IP policies on the level, location and direction of R&D investment and competition. She also works on issues of innovation and access to therapies in developing countries. Her papers have been published in various journals of economics, strategy, and health policy, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, Management Science, and Health Affairs. In 2019, she was named as one of the “40 in their 40s” notable women competition professionals.
Margaret holds a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. She previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, London Business School, and the Toulouse School of Economics, and is a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and at the University of Hong Kong. Margaret is currently a member of the Conseil National de Productivité in France and a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy for DG Competition. Furthermore, she is the chair of the Research Committee of the UK Office of Health Economics.
Imke Reimers
Imke Reimers is Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Economics at Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She is broadly interested in the industrial organization of digital markets, information, and intellectual property. Her research mainly focuses on three specific questions: 1) how does information technology affect the functioning and efficiency of markets; 2) how do copyright and other forms of intellectual property affect access to information; and 3) how do digital platforms use their market power and what are the consequences of their actions?
Imke received a PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She also holds a BS in mathematics and economics from the University of Nebraska. Before joining Cornell, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Northeastern University.
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.
Jo Seldeslachts
Jo Seldeslachts is Professor of Industrial Organization at KU Leuven and Senior Research Fellow at DIW Berlin. He holds further positions at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Johannesburg. His research interests lie in the areas of competition policy and law & economics. Jo has advised several public bodies on antitrust issues, including the Directorate General for Competition (EU), the Competition and Markets Authority (UK), and the ACM (The Netherlands). Jo's work has been published in journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Industrial Economics and The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He earned a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Joel Stiebale
Joel Stiebale is Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). Previously, he was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham and as a postdoctoral researcher at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. He received his PhD at the University of Bochum in 2010. His research interests lie in the areas of empirical industrial organization, international economics and economics of innovation. Topics of his current research projects include the evolution of market power, the effects of mergers and acquisitions and the impact of innovation policy.
Leonard Treuren
Leonard Treuren is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium). He is also affiliated to the Department of Management, Strategy, and Innovation, and member of K.U. Leuven's IO group. His main research interest is in industrial organization, aiming to further academic understanding of market imperfections and investigate the role of policy in resolving them. He primarily studies questions related to market power in input markets and competition policy, with a particular focus on horizontal agreements such as mergers and cartels. His research typically employs production-side structural approaches to observational data, but he also utilises laboratory experiments and theoretical models.
Reinhilde Veugelers
Prof Dr. Reinhilde Veugelers is a full professor at KULeuven (BE) at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation. She is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel since 2009. She is also a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and of the Academia Europeana. From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave, as advisor at the European Commission (BEPA Bureau of European Policy Analysis). She was the President-Elect of EARIE (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics). She currently serves on the ERC Scientific Council. She is a member of the RISE Expert Group advising the EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation.
She was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Stern Business School, NYU (US), UCL (BE), ECARES/ ULBrussels, (BE) Paris I (FR), GSE-Barcelona (ES), UMaastricht (NL), SciencesPo (FR).
With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy, innovation and science, she has authored numerous well cited publications in leading international journals. Specific recent topics include cooperative R&D, international technology transfers through MNEs, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change, industry science links and their impact on firm’s innovative productivity, evaluation of research & innovation policy, explaining scientific productivity, researchers’ international mobility. She coordinates a large, multidisciplinary research project on radical innovations.