Faculty
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.
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.
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
Pierre Fleckinger
Pierre Fleckinger is Professor of Economics at Mines ParisTech. He is also Affiliate Professor at Paris School of Economics and Director of Cerna. Trained as an engineer and game theorist, and a social scientist by inclination, he has developed into an economist by profession. In recent years, Pierre has pursued a research agenda that integrates theory, data, and fieldwork, with a specific focus on medium-sized companies. This work complements his longstanding research interests in game theory, information economics, industrial organization, regulation, and environmental economics. Pierre’s expertise spans Information Economics, Incentives, Game Theory, Industrial Economics & Regulation, Economics of Organizations, and Environmental Economics.
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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Jannis Kück
Jannis Kück is Professor of Economics, specializing in Data Science in Economics, at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Statistics, University of Hamburg (2021-2023), and a research fellow at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2022. Jannis obtained his PhD in Statistics from the University of Hamburg in 2020. His current teaching and research interests include High-Dimensional Statistics, Econometrics, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Graphical Models.
Wanda Mimra
Wanda Mimra is an Associate Professor of Economics at ESCP Business School, Paris. Before joining ESCP Business School, Wanda Mimra was an Assistant Professor of Risk and Insurance Economics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an Associate Professor of Economics at IESEG School of Management, France. Her research focuses on markets with information problems such as expert markets. She is particularly working on the consequences of information problems and regulatory and market design solutions in healthcare and insurance markets. In her research, Wanda Mimra uses both theory as well as lab and field experimental methods.
Bettina Peters
Bettina Peters is Deputy Head at ZEW’s "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics" Research Department and Honorary Professor in Management at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg. Her main research interests cover the economics of innovation at the firm-level, in particular productivity and employment effects of innovation, dynamics in firm innovation behaviour, and the internationalization of R&D activities. Her research has been published in various academic journals like RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, or Research Policy. She is a member of a research group on firm innovation behaviour and is engaged in the conceptual development and analysis of the Mannheim Innovation Panel and the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS). She has been engaged in many consultancy projects in the area of innovation and technology policy for the EU Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Before joining ZEW in 2000, she was a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Microeconomics at the University of Kiel (1997-2000). She gained her doctoral degree at the University of Würzburg and holds a degree in quantitative economics from the University of Kiel. Bettina Peters was visiting researcher at Boston University and KU Leuven.
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.
Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts is Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Director of the Penn State Census Bureau Research Data Center. He received his PhD in Economics in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in the areas of Applied Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation. His current research addresses empirical modelling of entry, exit and sunk costs as well as productivity and firm turnover.
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.