Academic Visits
- MIT, March 2011
- University of Michigan, June 2009 & March 2011
Societal Impact, Policy Advice & Outreach
- Member of Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy (DG CNECT, DG GROW), 2021-
- 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.
- EU Digital Markets Act, Articles 6 (10, 11) are in line with my research (with co-authors) on economics of data-driven markets and proposal to introduce mandatory data sharing on such markets, 2020/22.
- 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
- Editor of sioe.org, the website of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, 2014-
- 2023 Annual Research Conference of the European Commission, Member of Scientific Advisory Committee
- “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 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
- 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
- Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
- Communications & Strategies
- Econometrica
- Economica
- European Economic Review
- European Journal of Law and Economics
- European Journal of Political Economy
- European Research Council, Advanced Grants
- Games and Economic Behavior
- 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 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)
- Netnomics
- Policy & Internet
- 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
- Telecommunications Policy
- The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
- Voluntary Sector Review