Further Academic Activities

Academic Visits

Societal Impact, Policy Advice & Outreach

Member of Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy (DG CNECT, DG GROW), 2021-
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-
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-
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

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Jens Prüfer