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-
• EU Commission (DG ECFIN): Invited to educate and consult ECFIN-staff members working on the implementation of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility)), about “Economic Governance and Institutional Reform.”
• EU Digital Markets Act, Article 6.1(j) is 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
• “DFG-Mercator Fellow” (=Visiting Full 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
• 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
• Netnomics
• Policy & Internet
• RAND Journal of Economics
• Research Policy
• Review of Economic Studies
• Review of Network Economics
• Southern Economic Journal
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Telecommunications Policy
• The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
• Voluntary Sector Review