Academic Visits

• MIT, March 2011
• University of Michigan, June 2009 & March 2011

Societal Impact, Policy Advice & Outreach

• Invited speaker at Conference of Delegation Chairs of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 2025
• Invited speaker in panel discussion at European Parliament about future of search engine regulation, Brussels, 2025
• Member of Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy (DG CNECT, DG GROW), 2021-
• My research on data-driven market has affected the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), especially DMA Art. 6(10,11) (forcing gatekeepers to share user-generated data with competitors) and the idea of necessary ex ante regulation because of data-driven indirect network effects (confirmed in writing by EU Commission)
• My co-authored paper “Competing with Big Data” is cited in the 2023 Economic Report of the President, delivered by President Biden to the U.S. Congress. It is also cited by the “Report on AI” by the Dutch Scientific Council for Governmental Policy (WRR), 2023.
• Executive teaching on “Data-driven Markets” at UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, and UK Government Departments for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and  Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), 2023
• EU Commission (DG ECFIN): Executive teaching and consultation of ECFIN-staff members about “Economic Governance and Institutional Reform,” 2022.
• Advisor of German Finance Ministry on regulation of data-driven markets, 2020
• Advisor of German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on a Mandatory Data-sharing Bill, 2019
• Advisor of Dutch Economics Ministry on “Competition Policy and Online Platforms,” 2019
• Talk “Future of Data Economy” at German Ministry of Finance, Berlin, 2018
• Talk “Future of Regulation” at Network of Economic Regulators of the OECD, Paris, 2018
• Advice on “Personalization in the Digital Economy” of Dutch Competition Authority (ACM), 2018
• Roundtable on “Data Ownership and Data Access,” Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, 2018
• “Competing with Big Data” (with Christoph Schottmüller) is cited by General Secretary of Dutch Economics Ministry (in ESB, 2018) + our central policy proposal leads to a special issue on data sharing at policy journal ESB, 2018
• “Public Policy in a Data-driven Economy,” seminar at Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, 2017
• Advisory talk on competition policy in data-driven markets, Dutch Economics Ministry, 2017
• Talk “Competition policy in the digital economy: towards a new theory of harm,” Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels (with many representatives of EU Commission), 2016

Conference Organization, Program Committee Membership, Service to the Profession

• “Mercator Fellow” (=Visiting Professor sponsored by German Science Foundation) of Graduiertenkolleg (=PhD-program) “Digital Platform Ecosystems,” University of Passau, 2022-27.
• Organizer of TILEC Workshop on “Economic Governance of Social Media” (Keynotes: Natali Helberger (Amsterdam), Emeric Henry (Sciences Po), Jacob Montgomery (Washington U St. Louis), Piotr Sapiezynski (Northeastern U), 2025.
• Centre for Competition Policy Annual Conference 2025, Scientific Committee Member
• Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics annual conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2025: Executive Program Committee Member (for AI-related topics)
• Editor of sioe.org, the website of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, 2014-25.
• Conference “Bytes and Behemoths: Understanding Power in Digital Platform Ecosystems,” University of Passau, 2024, Program Committee Member
• Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics annual conference, U Chicago, 2024: Executive Program Committee Member (for AI-related topics) + organizing sessions on “AI and Autocracy” and “Governing AI around the Globe”
• Co-Organizer of TILEC 20^th Anniversary Conference (With Amelia Fletcher (UEA), Francine Lafontaine (Michigan), Martijn Snoep (ACM), Lluis Sauri (DG Comp), Filomena Chirico (DG CNCT), Paul Seabright (Toulouse), Tim Simcoe (Boston), Tania vd Brande (OFCOM), Peter Georg Picht (Zürich), Urs Gasser (TUM), and many more), Tilburg, 2024.
• 2023 Annual Research Conference of the European Commission, Member of Scientific Advisory Committee
• Organizer of TILEC Workshop on “Economic Governance and Legitimacy“, Tilburg, 2022
• Organizer of TILEC-GovReg Workshop on “Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives“, Tilburg, 2019
• SIOE conference 2018, Montreal, Program Executive Committee Member
• Organizer of TILEC-GovReg Workshop on “Economic Governance of Data-driven Markets“, Tilburg, 2017
• Organizer of TILEC Workshop on “Economic Governance and Social Preferences“, Tilburg, 2015
• ISNIE conference 2015, Harvard University, Program committee member
• ISNIE conference 2014, Duke University, Program committee member
• Workshop on the Economics of Security in the Cloud, Bristol, 2013, Program committee member
• Organizer of TILEC Workshop on “Economic Governance and Organizations”, Tilburg, 2013
• ISNIE conference 2013, Florence, Program committee member
• Organizer of session at AEA meetings 2012 (Chicago) on “Legal and Economic Foundations of Organization”
• Organizer of TILEC Workshop on “Economic Governance and Competition: The Pros and Cons of Private Ordering in the Shadow of the Law”, Tilburg, 2010
• Host of TILEC visitor Peter Leeson, George Mason University, 2010
• Host of TILEC visitor Dean Williamson, U.S. Department of Justice, 2008
• Host of TILEC visitor Scott Masten, University of Michigan, 2007

Departmental and Faculty Service

• Director, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), 2023-
• Deputy Director, Centre for Competition Policy, 2022-
• Lead, IO Research Group, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, 2022-
• Academic Director, MSc Economics, Tilburg University, 2016-2022
• Member of Recruitment Committee for Assistant Professor (Department of Economics), 2021
• Member of Recruitment Committee for TILEC Director (TILEC & Department of Economics), 2021
• Member of Education Committee of Research Master program in Economics, 2019-
• Member of Recruitment Committee for Lecturers (Department of Economics), 2019
• Head of Recruitment Committee (TILEC: “Economic Governance of Data-driven Markets”), 2017/18
• Education Coordinator Microeconomics, CentER Graduate School, Tilburg University, 2011-2016
• Member of the Job Market Committee (Department of Economics), 2008/09
• Member of Advice Committee Reform Bachelor Programme in Economics, 2007
• Member of the Job Market Committee (Department of Economics/TILEC), 2006/07
• Assistant to the Dean of Education (Goethe University Frankfurt), 2004/05

Reviewing

• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• American Journal of Political Science
• American Political Science Review
• Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
• B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
• Communications & Strategies
• Econometrica
• Economica
• European Economic Review
• European Journal of Law and Economics
• European Journal of Political Economy
• European Research Council, Advanced Grants
• French National Research Agency (ANR)
• Games and Economic Behavior
• Handbook of New Institutional Economics
• Information Economics and Policy
• International Economic Review
• International Journal of Industrial Organization
• Journal of Banking & Finance
• Journal of Comparative Economics
• Journal of Competition Law & Economics
• Journal of Development Economics
• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
• Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
• Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
• Journal of Health Economics
• Journal of Industrial Economics
• Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
• Journal of Institutional Economics
• Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization
• Journal of Legal Studies
• Journal of Management Studies
• Journal of Public Economic Theory
• Labour Economics
• Management Science (Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis section)
• Management Science (Business Strategy section)
• Management Science (Entrepreneurship and Innovation section)
• Management Science (Information Systems section)
• National Science Centre Poland
• Netnomics
• Policy & Internet
• Public Choice
• RAND Journal of Economics
• Research Policy
• Review of Economic Studies
• Review of Industrial Organization
• Review of Network Economics
• Southern Economic Journal
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Technology in Society
• Telecommunications Policy
• Voluntary Sector Review