Advances in the Economics of Competition Law
Short biographies
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Mark Armstrong is professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University College London. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Industrial Organization and member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Industrial Economics and the RAND Journal of Economics. Professors Armstrong articles include: “Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination by a Regulated Monopolist”, RAND Journal of Economics; “Multiproduct Nonlinear Pricing”, Econometrica; “Price Discrimination by a Many-Product Firm", Review of Economic Studies; and “Competitive Price Discrimination”, RAND Journal of Economics.
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Jonathan Baker is professor of law at the Washington College of Law of the American University. He has been Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission from 1995 through 1998 and, before that, Senior Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President of the United States. Baker has widely published in the fields of antitrust law and industrial organization economics.
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Timothy Bresnahan is Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy at Stanford University. From 1999 to 2000 he has been Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Economist at the U.S. DoJ Antitrust Division. His current research interests include competition in high technology industries. Bresnahan has published more than sixty professional articles in scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics and many others. He is fellow of the Econometric Society and of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Paolo Buccirossi is Director of Lear – Laboratorio di economia, antitrust, regolamentazione. He has worked for several years at the Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato (Italian Competition Authority). From January 1995 to October 1998 he served as an economist in two Investigation Units. In 1998 he joined the Directorate of Law and Economic Studies of the Italian Competition Authority where he was responsible for reviewing the economic analysis of all the cases before the Authority. He also represented Italy in several international meetings held at OECD (Competition Law and Policy Committee) and at the European Commission (Advisory Committee and Hearings). Paolo Buccirossi regularly teaches Antitrust Economics at undergraduate and graduate courses held in several universities in Italy such as LUISS, University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Padua. He has published in several scholarly journals including the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Journal of Regulatory Economics.
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Carlo Cambini is Professor of Economics at the Politecnico of Turin and Special Consultant of Lear. He is an expert of Antitrust and Regulation Economics, and specializes on telecommunications and network industries. Carlo Cambini has advised several companies and public bodies in the electronic communications sector. He has published on leading international economic journals, including the RAND Journal of Economics.
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Nicholas Economides is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business of the New York University. He is Director of Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications ("NET") Institute. Economides has been advisor to major telecommunications corporations, a number of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of Greece, and major Financial Exchanges. He has published extensively on leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Theory, and the RAND Journal of Economics.
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Richard Gilbert is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 1995 he was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led a task force that developed joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Before serving in the Department of Justice, he was the Director of the University of California Energy Institute and Associate Editor of The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, and The Review of Industrial Organization. From 1993 until 1994 he was president of The Industrial Organization Society. Professor Gilbert's research specialties are in the areas of antitrust economics, intellectual property, research and development, energy markets, and public utility regulation. Professor Gilbert received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Cornell University, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Stanford University. |
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Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His fields of inquiry are industrial organization and organization theory and involve the use of both analytical and computational methods. He has published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, and RAND Journal of Economics. He is best well-known for his work on collusion which has investigated the impact on collusive pricing of cyclical demand, entry, imperfect monitoring, and multi-market interaction. His current research agenda is to develop a theory of cartel pricing when colluding firms are trying to elude detection by buyers and antitrust authorities. His research on organizations has focused on the role of organizational structure and is reviewed (along with other work) in "Agent-Based Models of Organizations," (co-authored with Myong-Hun Chang) which is forthcoming in the second volume of the Handbook of Computational Economics. Professor Harrington is currently a co-editor at the RAND Journal of Economics and is formerly an editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization and a co-editor at the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He has given short courses at the Norwegian School of Economics, the Summer School in Regulation and Antitrust at the New University of Lisbon, and ENCORE at the University of Amsterdam. Along with John Vernon and Kip Viscusi, he is a co-author of Economics of Regulation and Antitrust; the fourth edition of which is due out in 2005 from MIT Press.
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Paul Klemperer is a Member of the U.K. Competition Commission, and has advised the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission, and several other government agencies and private companies; he was the principal auction theorist advising the U.K. government on its "3G" mobile-phone license auction that raised $34 billion. He is Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, and Member of the Executive Committee, and Council, of the Royal Economic Society, he is also a Member of Council of the European Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. He gained a BA in Engineering at Cambridge University, and an MBA and a PhD in Economics at Stanford University. He is a world-renowned expert in industrial organization and auctions; he is past or present Editor or Associate Editor of 12 economics journals, and has authored numerous publications including, most recently, Auctions: Theory and Practice (Princeton, 2004).
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Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan in 1998, Professor Kühn taught at the Institut d' Analisi Economica (CSIC) in Barcelona. His main research interests are in industrial organization and competition policy. He is a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. Among his papers: "Fighting Collusion by Regulating Communication Between Firms," Economic Policy: A European Forum; "Excess Entry, Vertical Integration, and Welfare," RAND Journal of Economics, (with Xavier Vives); "Nonlinear Pricing in Vertically Related Duopolies," RAND Journal of Economics, 28(1), Spring 1997, 37-62.
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Francine Lafontaine is Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Business School and a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan’s Department of Economics. Lafontaine's areas of interest include Industrial Organization, Vertical Relationships, Contracting and Franchising. She has studied extensively and continues to work on the economics of franchise contracting, applying recent advances in contract theory and vertical relationships to the analysis of franchising contracts. She has become a leading expert in that area. Among Lafontaine’s publications: "Retail Contracting: Theory and Practice" (with Margaret Slade), Journal of Industrial Economics; "Targeting Managerial Control: Evidence from Franchising" (with Kathryn L. Shaw), RAND Journal of Economics.
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Damein Neven is professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva. His current research deals with the co-ordination of Antitrust policies across jurisdictions, the political economy of merger control and the antitrust analysis of sports competitions. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Committee to the Competition Directorate of the European Commission. Among his publications: “Competition and rent sharing in the airlines industry” (with L.-H. Röller), European Economic Review, and “Regulatory Reform in the European Community”, American Economic Review.
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Janusz Ordover is professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the New York University. From 1991 to 1992 he has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Ordover is member of the Board of Editors of the Antitrust Report, and the American Bar Association. He has acted as consultant of the World Bank, OECD and other institutions including the Polish Ministry of Finance and the Working Group on Bulgaria’s Draft Antitrust Law. Among his publications: “Entry Analysis Under the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines”, Antitrust Law Journal (with Jonathan B. Baker); “Equilibrium Vertical Foreclosure”, American Economic Review (with G. Saloner and S. Salop); "Predation, Monopolization, and Antitrust," (with G. Saloner) in R. Schmalensee and R.D. Willig (eds.), Handbook of Industrial Organization, North Holland.
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Patrick Rey is Professor of Economics at the University Toulouse and Research Director of IDEI- Institut d’Economie Industrielle. Fellow of the Econometric Society, he has been member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and currently is in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Economics. Rey has served as consultant for the World Bank (on Competition Policy and Economic Development), OECD (Report on Franchising), and the European Commission (Report for DG II on Competition policy towards vertical Restraints, Member of DG IV’s Scientific Advisory Committee). Patrick Rey is one of the authors of Competition policy and Vertical Restraints: Franchising Agreements, 1994, OECD, Paris. His publications include: "The Logic of Vertical Restraints", (with J. Tirole), American Economic Review, "Long-Term, Short-term and Renegotiation: On the value of Commitment in Contracting", (with B. Salanié), Econometrica, "Capacity Constraints, Mergers and Collusion", (with O. Compte and F. Jenny), European Economic Review.
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Michael Riordan is Laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics and Business, at the Columbia University. He is fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2002 received the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Award for Antitrust Scholarship. He has acted as Co-Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and is in the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review. Riordan has published in leading economic journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Economic Theory and the RAND Journal of Economics.
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Jean-Charles Rochet is a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holds Ph.D.in Mathematical Economics from Paris – Dauphine University . His dissertation won the Arconati-Visconti award. He has taught in Paris, France (ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique) and London, U.K. ( B.P. visiting professor, London School of Economics, 2001-02). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1995. He has also been council member of European Economic Association, and associate editor of Econometrica . He is currently Professor of Economics at Toulouse University and Research Director at Institut D’Economie Industrielle. He has written more than 50 articles in international scientific journals (Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Rand Journal of Economics,…) and 3 textbooks , including Microeconomics of Banking (with X. FREIXAS) MIT Press (1997). His research interests include platform competition, nonlinear pricing, theory of contracts, banking crises, and solvency regulations for financial institutions.
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Lars-Hendrik Röller is the Chief Economist of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. He holds the Chair of Industrial Economics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and is the co-director of CEPR's program in Industrial Organization. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Economics, editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). Professor Röller's research interests are in the area of empirical industrial organization. He developed structural econometric models of market and cost characteristics deriving their implications for policy and strategy. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Journal, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
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Margaret Slade is Leverhulme Professor of Industry and Organization at the Department of Economics of the University of Warwick (UK). She is an associate editor the International Journal of Industrial Organization and previously held the same position in the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Canadian Journal of Economics. Margaret Slade has served as consultant for several institutions including the Federal Trade Commission in the US, the Canadian Restrictive Trade Practices Commission and the Bureau of Competition Policy of Canada. Among her publications: “Mergers, Brand Competition, and the Price of a Pint,” (with Joris Pinkse) European Economic Review; “Market Power and Joint Dominance in UK Brewing," Journal of Industrial Economics, "Retail Contracting: Theory and Practice" (with Francine Lafontaine) Journal of Industrial Economics; Spatial Price Competition: a Semiparametric Approach, (with Joris Pinkse and Craig Brett) Econometrica.
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Giancarlo Spagnolo is Head of Research at Consip SpA and Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is also in the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and a Research Affiliate of the CEPR. His research focuses on applied microeconomics in general, including game and contract theory, industrial organization, competition policy, corporate finance and procurement, and was published on leading international journals such as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal and Economic Theory and the European Economic Review. He earned an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Jean Tirole is scientific director of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, University of Social Sciences, Toulouse. He is also affiliated with CERAS, Paris and MIT, where he holds a visiting position. Before moving to Toulouse in 1991, he was professor of economics at MIT. In 1998, he was president of the Econometric Society, whose executive committee he had served on since 1993. He was president of the European Economic Association in 2001. Jean Tirole received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Free University in Brussels in 1989, the Yrjö Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association in 1993, and the Public Utility Research Center Distinguished Service Award (University of Florida) in 1997. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and of the American Economic Association (1993). He has also been a Sloan Fellow (1985) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). He has given several invited lectures, including the Hicks lecture (Oxford 1992), the Walras-Pareto lectures (Lausanne 1992), the Schumpeter lecture (European Economic Association 1993), the Pazner lecture (Tel Aviv 1993), the Walras-Bowley lecture (Econometric Society 1994), the Munich lectures (Munich 1996),the JMCB lecture(1999), the Wicksell lectures(1999), the Baffi lectures (Bank of Italy , 2000) , the Scribner lectures and the Frank Graham lecture at Princeton (2002), the Marshall lectures (Cambridge 2003), and the Tinbergen lecture (Amsterdam 2003). Jean Tirole has published over a hundred thirty professional articles in economics and finance, as well as 8 books including The Theory of Industrial Organization, Game Theory (with Drew Fudenberg), A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation (with Jean-Jacques Laffont) , The Prudential Regulation of Banks (with Mathias Dewatripont), Competition in Telecommunications (with Jean-Jacques Laffont) and Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System .He is currently working on The Theory of Corporate Finance and on Egonomics (with Roland Benabou). His research covers industrial organization, regulation, game theory, banking and finance, psychology and economics, international finance and macroeconomics. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1981, engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1976) and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1978) and a "Doctorat de 3ème cycle'' in decision mathematics from the University Paris IX (1978).
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Thibaud Vergé is Lecturer at the University of Southampton and Associate Member of the Leverhulme Centre for Market and PublicOrganisation, University of Bristol. His research interests include industrial organization and competition policy.
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Gregory J. Werden is Senior Economic Counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he has worked since 1977. He earned several degrees including a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He was a principal author of the 1982 and 1984 Merger Guidelines, as well as four other sets of antitrust enforcement guidelines. He assisted in the preparation of over forty amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals, and worked on all appeals of the Department of Justice civil antitrust cases since 1985. He has published extensively on antitrust policy, with particular focus on market delineation and merger simulation.
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A former supervisor of economic research at Bell Laboratories, professor Willig is the coauthor of Welfare Analysis of Policies Affecting Prices and Products, and Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure, and coeditor of The Handbook of Industrial Organization and Can Privatization Deliver?: Infrastructure for Latin America. A fellow of the Econometric Society, he has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He served in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as deputy assistant attorney general for economics, 1989–1991, and has been a member of policy task forces under the aegis of the Governor of New Jersey, the Defense Science Board, and the National Research Council. He works with the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank on issues of infrastructure privatization and competition policy. He has written numerous articles including “Consumer’s Surplus without Apology,” “Free Entry and the Sustainability of Natural Monopoly,” and “Merger Analysis, IO Theory, and Merger Guidelines.” |
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