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On the "Non-price effects of mergers and acquisitions" Joel Stiebale and I have written a non-technical report, commissioned by EU Competition. #CompetitionLaw #Antitrust #MergerPolicy download here: ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/dicedp/4…

The Competition and Innovation Summer School (#CISS) is back after #COVID. 📅2.-6. October in Ulcinj (Montenegro). Submission Deadline: 28. August Acceptance of Application: 1. September 2023 👉euro-ciss.eu/ciss/home ZEW KU Leuven Leibniz-Gemeinschaft TU München EPFL MaCCIcompetition

🚨We are hiring two postdocs for AY 24-25 at the Pricing Lab at Harvard Business School. The position is open to those with and without AP offers. You can work with industry data alongside Alberto Cavallo (macro side of the lab) and myself. Link for microeconomics: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12981

#EconTwitter: we are hiring several PhD students at Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics to start in October 2024. Our program focusses on IO, competition policy, international economics, behavioral economics and econometrics. dice.hhu.de/fileadmin/reda…

Very happy to share that our paper „Robots and the rise of European superstar firms“, joint with Joel Stiebale and Nicole Woessner, has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Industrial Organization #IJIO Check out the main findings in our VoxEU column

Interested in doing research on competition, innovation and productivity with real policy impact? Our Competition & Markets Authority Microeconomics Unit is hiring up to three Economic Advisers (Research). 1/ civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Forthcoming IJIO article by Joel Stiebale Jens Südekum & Nicole Woessner Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics "Robots and the Rise of European Superstar Firms" doi.org/10.1016/j.ijin… Elsevier | ScienceDirect

We're looking for speakers for the CMA seminar series from Sept '24 - March '25, with a preference for work in progress. Check out our research agenda for relevant topics: tinyurl.com/3vve8b8s Seminars are 1hr, either in person or online. Please send a message if interested!

New fascinating research formulating a theory of digital ecosystems, by Paul Heidhues,Mats Köster, and Botond Kőszegi. This theory strikes me as highly relevant for phenomena we've observed in digital markets - great to see more research on this ⬇️ tinyurl.com/39c5brtm

Markups of consumer products increased over 2006–19, primarily due to reductions in marginal cost. Consumers have become less price sensitive, from Hendrik Döpper, Alex MacKay, Nathan Miller, and Joel Stiebale nber.org/papers/w32739

Working on aggregate market power, business dynamism or the competitive process? Submit a paper to the third Competition & Markets Authority and Durham Uni Economics workshop on 14-15 November! 1/2

Policymakers often need to design policies quickly in the face of crises, but analysis required for evidence-based policymaking is published with a big lag. So what can researchers do help? A thread on a new paper with my wonderful coauthors Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere and ChristinaPalmou 1/

Very happy to join the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) at EU Competition. Looking forward to working with outstanding colleagues. competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/chief-competit….

Conflict of interest (COI) leads to a strong downward valuation and credibility of research output Zingales Tommaso Valletti @LancieriFilippo Joshua Levy John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦 Shashank Singh The paper advocates for a clearer COI policy: the profession’s #me-consult-too moment

The preliminary programme is now out for the third annual Competition & Markets Authority-Durham University workshop on 14-15 November. With contributions by Joel Stiebale, Michael Lipsitz, Flavio Toxværd ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and others, and a keynote by the great Tommaso Valletti. cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… 1/2

The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/7fxai8yeREwL7m… Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/

Exciting news! I'll be joining CUNEF Universidad (CUNEF Universidad) in Madrid as an assistant professor (tenure track) in Sept 2025. Grateful for the support from my letter writers, advisors, coauthors, family & friends. Looking forward to this new chapter!

Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.