Contributers to this conference

Prof. Maarten Janssen, Professor of Microeconomics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Director of the Tinbergen Institute and co-founder of ECRI (The Erasmus Competition and Regulation Institute). Prof. Janssen's academic research focuses on issues in the theory of industrial organisation in general, and on asymmetric information in markets (search, adverse selection) and auctions, in particular. He has advised several firms in anti-trust cases.

Prof. John M. Connor, Professor of Industrial Economics at the College of Agriculture, Purdue University (USA). Professor Connor's major research interests include empirical studies of industrial organization of the U.S. food marketing system, public policies affecting competition, and international food marketing. He teaches graduate courses in marketing, price analysis, and food system organization. In the last five years, his writing and speaking has focused on the topics of international price fixing and antitrust law enforcement.

Dr Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Associate Professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam, and Co-director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). Dr Schinkel's research interests and teaching span industrial organization theory, competition policy issues and the economics of information. Dr Schinkel is also Deputy Economic Counsel to the Board of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) for 2005, an alternating part-time advisory position.

Prof. Morton Kamien, Joseph and Carole Levy Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Heizer Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (USA). His research areas are economic theory, industrial organization, optimization techniques and entrepreneurship.

Prof. Jan Boone, Professor of Industrial Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tilburg University. He works for both CentER (Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University) and TILEC (Tilburg Law and Economics Center). His publications include papers on measuring competition, competition policy and the welfare effects of competition.

Prof. Benny Moldovanu, Chair of Economic Theory at the University of Bonn. Professor Moldovanu's research focuses on on auction theory and mechanism design. He serves as Associate Editor for Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior. In 2001 he was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize.

Dr Sander Onderstal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His research interest includes auctions, intrinsic motivation, lobbying, industrial organization and labor economics. At the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), he investigated welfare-to-work programs, network industries, and competition policy in general. During his Ph.D.-research, he advised the Dutch government on several auctions.

Prof. Theo Offerman, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam . Professor Offerman also works for CREED (Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-making, University of Amsterdam). His research interests include experimental economics, game theory, and behavioral economics.

Dr Jeroen Hinloopen, Associate Professor of Industrial Organization at the University of Amsterdam, and Academic Director of ENCORE. His research is both theoretical and empirical with a recent focus on the economics of Research and Development, empirical international trade, and competition policy. Recently he co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Industrial Organization on the economics of collusion and tacit collusion.

Prof. Richard McKenzie, University of California, Irvine-Graduate School of Management. Professor McKenzie holds the Walter B. Gerken Chair in Enterprise and Society and is a recognized authority on public policy, the global economy, and economic changes in the 1980s, and author of many books. He is an adjunct fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr Marco Haan, Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He teaches courses on industrial organization, both at the University of Groningen and for NAKE (Netherlands Network of Economics). His research interests are primarily in the fields of industrial organization, public economics and auctions.

Mr AW Kist, Chair of the Board of the Universiteit Leiden, and Chair of the ENCORE Masters’ Thesis Prize. Mr Kist is the former Director-General of the Dutch Competition Authority (NMa).