Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI)

Join us for the 2025 MaCCI Annual Conference at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research on March 20-21, 2025. Submissions of theoretical, empirical, as well as case-oriented papers on competition economics, competition law, and related areas (regulated industries, competition and innovation, ...) are welcome. Submission deadline for papers or full sessions (!) is December 1, 2024. For more details, see the conference website at https://lnkd.in/eanvjpiF ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim ENGAGE.EU

Recently, we had Damien Geradin in our Mannheim Competition Policy Forum. He spoke about antitrust cartel damages against digital gatekeepers. Watch the recording on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eBe7YuJm Don't forget to click LIKE and subscribe!

We posted two new videos on our YouTube channel: Pınar Akman's keynote "A Critical Inquiry into ‘Abuse’ in EU Competition Law@ at this year's MaCCI Annual Conference, now with a link to the open-access article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies: Video: https://lnkd.in/ehTmCWhv Article: https://lnkd.in/epjqH5gC Chrysovalantou (Valanta) Milliou's (Hellenistic Competition Competition) recent presentation (The "Failing Firm Defence" in Merger Control) at the Mannheim Competition Policy Forum: Video: https://lnkd.in/e4dHQD9X Don't forget: Hit like and subscribe! ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim ENGAGE.EU

Is your research related to #disclosure, information #sharing, or #secrecy (or in that vicinity)? Do you have a paper you want to showcase? Or need feedback? Submit for our upcoming Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy (DISS 2025). When: February 24-25, 2025 📅 Where: ONLINE! 🖥 Submit your papers by November 15, 2024!! Submission form: https://lnkd.in/eqA6zwek Find more information on the workshop website: https://lnkd.in/eWVXmrxh DISS 2025 is a two-half-day online workshop on the economics of disclosure, information sharing, and secrecy. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in economics, accounting, management science, and related disciplines. We expect to include eight papers plus discussants in the program. We are excited that Ann Lipton and Ginger Jin have accepted our invitations to be keynote lecturers. ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim Università Bocconi ENGAGE.EU Tim Martens

MaCCI Annual Conference 2025 🗞 Call for papers 🗞 🚨 🚨 We are excited to announce our MaCCI Annual Conference 2025. 🚨 🚨 🗓 When: March 20-21, 2025 🗺 Where: ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for exchange and discussion on topics in competition- and innovation-related research between academic researchers and practitioners in public authorities, legal counsel, and economic consultancies. Keynote speakers: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)) Nancy L. Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Submit your papers on competition and innovation-related topics by ⏰ December 1, 2024 ⏰ For more information, check out our conference website https://lnkd.in/gJUWT8Vn We look forward to welcoming you to Mannheim in March 2025. Organization committee: Jens-Uwe Franck Lion Holste Martin Peitz Nicolas Schutz Eliza Stenzhorn #competition #innovation #research #academics #academia #conference #mannheim ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim ENGAGE.EU

📕 🎓 Many of our members are traveling for a conference double-header this week. The Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam is hosting the 38th meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA) and the 75th European meeting of the The Econometric Society Society (joint meeting EEA-ESEM 2024, August 26-30). It's the largest meeting of academic economists in Europe. At the end of this week (Aug 31 - Sept 1), the University of Amsterdam is organizing the 51st Annual conference of the @European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE 2024). 🚨 EEA-ESEM 2024 Bernhard Ganglmair is presenting "Do Judicial Assignments Matter? Evidence from Random Case Allocation" (EEA 2024) and "Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies" (ESEM 2024). He is also speaking about his work in law & economics in Tuesday's lunch panel on interdisciplinary research Volker Nocke is presesenting "Multiproduct-Firm Pricing Games and Transformed Potentials" (ESEM 2024) and "Acquihiring for Monopsony Power" (EEA 2024) Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden is presenting "Supply Chain Frictions" (EEA 2024) Ulrich Wagner is presenting "Designing Effective Carbon Border Adjustment with Minimal Information Requirements. Theory and Empirics" (EEA 2024) 🚨 EARIE 2024 Volker Nocke is one of the keynote speakers, presenting "Advances in Oligopoly Theory: Aggregative and Potential Games" Jacopo Gambato is presenting "Platform-Enabled Information Disclosure" Bernhard Ganglmair is presenting "Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies" Julian Jordi Klix Klix is presenting "Soft-Landing Contracts and Temporal Incompleteness" Robin Ng is presenting "Free and Open-Source Software: Coordination and Competition" Helena Perrone: "Drivers of Switching in Autoinsurance: Evidence from observable and exogenous consideration sets" Max Riegel: "Vertical Differentiation through Product Design" Luca Sandrini: "Sharing is (not) caring: strategic information disclosure and platform's business model" Nicolas Schutz: "Multiproduct-Firm Pricing Games and Transformed Potentials" If you see them, say hello! ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim ENGAGE.EU

We are all enjoying a few quiet days in Mannheim. While we keep ourselves busy with soccer tournaments, the Olympics, and conventions to watch, check out our YouTube channel with recordings from some of our previous events. https://lnkd.in/eG8MNA_T And don't forget to hit subscribe! ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research ENGAGE.EU University of Mannheim #competition #innovation #research #mergers #academia

The deadline for this year's ZEW/MaCCI Conference is approaching fast: Submit your paper by ⏰ July 26, 2024! ⏰ The 10th MaCCI/ZEW Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting takes place on 26 and 27 September 2024 at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. The conference provides a platform for presentations of new research on #innovation and #patenting and aims to stimulate discussion among international researchers. Theoretical and empirical contributions from all areas of the #economics of innovation and patenting are welcome.   The Heinz König #Award for the best scientific paper by a #junior researcher will be presented during the conference. The #prize, sponsored by the ZEW Sponsors’ Association, is endowed with 5,000 euros and a research stay at ZEW. It is aimed at all young economists under the age of 35 whose research paper makes an outstanding contribution to innovation and patent research. Papers by young researchers with co-authors are also eligible.   Find further information on the conference website at https://lnkd.in/eyZ-bKqA.

Update: If you missed this year's #MaCCI Law and Economics Conference on recent developments in merger control at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research or you want to revisit some of the greatest moments: The videos of the keynotes by Herbert Hovenkamp, Giorgio Monti, and Carl Shapiro are now online. You can find them on your YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/e_7CV6Mg Don't forget to hit subscribe!

Are you interested in the latest research on #disclosure, #information #sharing, and #secrecy? Are you contributing to that body of literature? Then, save the date and submit your work to the online workshop on disclosure, information sharing, and secrecy with papers from #economics, #law, #accounting, #management, #finance. Workshop: Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy (DISS) February 24-25, 2025 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET / 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET Online (via Zoom) Deadline for submission: November 15, 2024 We invite submissions for a two-half-day online workshop on the economics of disclosure, information sharing, and secrecy. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in economics, accounting, management science, and related disciplines. For our 2-half-day workshop, we expect to include eight papers plus discussants in the program. The workshop will be open to the public. We will post workshop details, including the Zoom information and the program, on the workshop website at https://lnkd.in/eWVXmrxh. We are pleased to confirm the participation of two keynote speakers: - Ann Lipton (Tulane University) - Ginger Jin (University of Maryland) To submit your paper (in PDF), please use one of the three options: 1. Directly upload your paper using the submission form at https://lnkd.in/eqA6zwek (you may have to sign into your Google account). 2. Provide a link to the paper using the submission form. 3. Send the paper to diss.conf@gmail.com (Subject: DISS 2025 Workshop Submission). Please LIKE, REPOST, and SHARE this call for papers with your network. If you know of anyone who might be interested in receiving emails with announcements for this year's and future DISS workshops, ask them to sign up for our mailing list at https://lnkd.in/eGfp3Kqp. The organizing committee is composed of Bernhard Ganglmair and Tim Martens Reach out to us with any questions or concerns. ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research University of Mannheim ENGAGE.EU Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation Università Bocconi