ABOUT US
The goal of the Centre for Competition Economics is to foster greater interaction between academic and professional economists active in the field of competition policy. The Centre will provide a forum that facilitates a two-way exchange of economics ideas on important topics in competition policy. Academic economists will provide insights from latest research while professional economists will provide insights from their deep analysis of the functioning of particular markets. Such an exchange of ideas will help provide insightful inputs into important policy decisions towards the implementation of competition policy.
To foster such two-way exchange, the Centre will have regular (online) seminars open to a wide audience. The panel will always include both academic and professional economists (e.g., from economic consultancies and/or competition authorities) who will contribute with their expertise on the particular topic of interest. The aim is to distil policy implications that provide insights on the competitive effects of different business practices. These insights can be used in academia and in policy work and help to obtain measurable results under which conditions a particular practice is pro- or anticompetitive.
In addition, each year, the Centre will award a prize of €10k for a very good research paper on competition economics from a Ph.D. student, where the focus will be on originality and rigour of research as well as the contribution to deepen our understanding on matters for competition policy.
The Centre is funded by RBB but is entirely independent. Its Board consists of 7 members, one Director (Markus Reisinger), 3 Fellows (Claire Chambolle, Diane Coyle, and Otto Toivanen), and 3 members from RBB (Simon Bishop, Benoît Durand, and Adrian Majumdar).
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The Centre for Competition Economics annually awards three prizes for the best research papers in industrial organization written by young researchers.
Winners of 2025:
- Alina Ozhegova(Aalto University) for her paper “Assortment Choice and Market Power under Uniform Pricing”
- Carl-Christian Groh(University of Bonn) for his paper “Search, Data, and Market Power"
Winners of 2024:
- Jacopo Gambato(University of Mannheim) for his paper “Consumer Search and Firm Strategy with Multi-Attribute Products”
- Nadine Hahn(KU Leuven) for her paper “Who Is in the Driver’s Seat? Markups, Markdowns, and Profit Sharing in the Car Industry”
- Felix Montag(Dartmouth College) for his paper “Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry”