Contributors
Barbara Baarsma graduated cum laude in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. She was awarded her PhD in April 2000, for a dissertation on the monetary valuation of environmental goods. After succeeding her PhD-thesis she joined SEO Economic Research, to investigate topics related to competition and regulation. She has headed the Regulation and Competition cluster since December 2002 and is the organisation's Deputy Director since August 2006. Barbara boasts extensive experience in the study of the functioning of markets. She also has headed studies of self-regulation, of government regulation and control, and of quality regulation in the electricity industry. Another area of interest is competition: as well as leading a project on the delineation of relevant markets, she has contributed to a number confidential delineation studies, overseen the development of a competition test for legislation and investigated issues related to market entry, essential facilities, predatory pricing and vertical cooperation. She also advises on competition matters, including mergers, cartels and state support. Barbara is a regular lecturer and guest speaker, leads workshops, acts as a facilitator in decision-making processes and frequently publishes on market forces and competition issues in both academic journals and the popular media. She is member of several (international) economic networks such as the Netherlands Energy Forum and the Economists' Circle. She is involved as a member of the Commission that is currently evaluating the Dutch public broadcasting organization.
Marcel Canoy did his PhD thesis called "Bertrand meets the fox and the owl, essays on the theory of price competition", in Amsterdam in 1993. After academic post doc positions at CEPREMAP, Paris, France ("Human Capital and Mobility Program" of the EC), the Center of Economic Studies, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), he moved to the CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the independent economic think tank of the Dutch government, where he was head of department 'competition and regulation'. He joined BEPA on 1 June 2005. In BEPA he worked on the European Social Model, the Single Market, Migration, Youth and the Capabilities approach. As of March 2008, he is also affiliated with TILEC as professor of health economics.
Wim Driehuis has been Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam since 1973. Professor Driehuis is director of ENCORE and a fellow of ACLE. His current research is related to the empirics and methodology of the economic aspects of competition and regulation. Professor Driehuis was an advisor to the OECD program for Regulatory Reform and has been involved as an expert in many competition, regulation and state aid cases in various sectors and countries.
Wilfred Dolfsma , economist and philosopher, holds a PhD in economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is Professor of Innovation at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and is corresponding editor for the Review of Social Economy. His research interests are innovation and technological development, media industries, consumption, and the developments in and effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). His Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences (Edward Elgar, 2004) won him the Gunnar Myrdal Prize. His most recent books include Media & Economics (ed. with Richard Nahuis, 2005) Knowledge Economies (Routledge, 2008) and the Companion to Social Economics (ed. with John Davis, Edward Elgar, 2008). To view the personal page of professor Dolfsma, click here.
Bruno Julien-Malvy, joined the European Commission in 1996. His experience includes four years at the Directorate General for Trade, as an administrator in the Dispute Settlement Unit of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and five years in DG Competition where he essentially covered anti-trust cases in the IT and media sectors. Mr. Julien-Malvy has a Master degree in European Community Law from the College of Europe (1995), an LL.M. from Georgetown University (2001) and is also admitted at the New York Bar.
Hans van Kranenburg is full professor of Corporate Strategy at Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen School of Management, the Netherlands. He has been an associate professor at Maastricht University (the Netherlands), a visiting scholar at Media Management and Transformation Center at Jönköping University (Sweden) and a visiting scholar at National Opinion Research Center affiliated with the University of Chicago (USA). Van Kranenburg received his BA (Agricultural Economics) from the University of Exeter (UK) and his MA (Econometrics) from Tilburg University (the Netherlands). His Ph.D in Industrial Economics is from Maastricht University. He published on internationalisation, strategy and diversification of media, telecommunications, computer and software companies, evolution of the Dutch newspaper industry, industry dynamics, the role of government on market structure, intellectual property regimes, alliances, mergers and acquisitions in journals such as. Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Media Economics, International Business Review, International Studies of Management and Organization, Telecommunications Policy, Review of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Research Policy. He also is co-editor of the book Management and Innovation in the Media Industry (2008). Van Kranenburg is member of the following editorial boards: Journal of Media Management, International Journal of Media Management, and Journal of Media Business. To view his personal page click here.
José Luis Moraga-González is professor of Industrial Organization at the Department of Economics and Econometrics of the University of Groningen. He obtained a Ph. D. in Economics from University Carlos III Madrid. Then he worked at the Institute of Economics, Copenhagen and at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research interests are imperfect price information models and R&D. He has published in the Review of Economics Studies, the Rand Journal of Economics and the European Economic Review, among others. In recent days, he works on two-sided markets, consumer and labor search and advertising.
Siún O'Keeffe works as a senior case-handler in Network Sectors & Media at the Netherlands Competition Authority where she will shortly take up the position of Senior International Advisor. Siún participated in the inter-departmental discussions leading to the recent adoption of the Temporary Media Mergers Act (Tijdelijke wet mediaconcentraties). Siún is an Irish lawyer, and a qualified barrister, with a Masters in EC Law from the College of Europe in Bruges. Prior to working at the Netherlands Competition Authority, she lectured in EC and Competition Law at the University of Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, and at the University of Limerick in Ireland.
Will Page is the Chief Economist at the MCPS-PRS Alliance in the UK, the equivalent of Buma/Stemra in the Netherlands. His role is to provide analytical support to colleagues within the Society and economic insight to the industry as a whole. Relevant area's of Will's work include the economics of two-sided markets, and how it applies to platform competition - such as a collecting society. Will graduated with a MSc in Economics in 2002 and worked for four years at the Government Economic Service. Examples of his work are available here.
Martin Peitz is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim since 2007. He graduated in economics at the University of Bonn in 1992. He received his doctor in economics from Bonn within the European Doctoral Program in 1995. He then became assistant professor at the University of Alicante, Spain, and was tenured in 1999. In 2000 he was awarded the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). He held visiting appointments at the Universities of Frankfurt and Mannheim and was professor of economics at the International University in Germany from 2004 to 2007. Martin Peitz is associate editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization and Information Economics & Policy, research fellow of CEPR, CESifo and ENCORE, research professor at ZEW, and has widely published in leading economics journals. He is author of the book Regulation and Entry into Telecommunications Markets (with Paul de Bijl), published by Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on theoretical industrial organization.To view the personal page of MArtin Peitz, click here.
Maarten Pieter Schinkel Maarten Pieter Schinkel is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is academic director of ENCORE and a fellow 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. He has published in international journals such as the RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and World Competition. In 2005-2006, Maarten Pieter Schinkel served as Deputy Economic Counsel to the Board of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa).
Joel Waldfogel (AB in Economics from Brandeis University and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University) is the Ehrenkranz Family Professor and Chair of the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to arriving at Wharton in 1997, he served on the faculty of the Yale University Economics Department (1990-1997). His research interests span law and economics and industrial organization. Within industrial economics, he has conducted empirical studies of price advertising, media markets and minorities, and the operation of differentiated product markets. Within media issues in particular, he has studied the efficiency of free entry in radio markets; the relationship between public and private broadcasting; the effects of ownership consolidation on programming variety; and how media markets serve minority consumers in radio, television, newspapers, and the Internet. He is the author of The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want (Harvard University Press, 2007) and writes a monthly column on new economic research for Slate.com. To view the personal page of professor Waldfogel, click here.
Helen Weeds is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Essex and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her main research area is the economics of broadcasting, focusing on public service broadcasting and competition issues in TV broadcasting. She has also written papers on utility regulation, merger policy, takeovers and investment behaviour. Dr. Weeds has considerable consulting and policy experience, advising on mergers and competition inquiries at the European Commission, UK and other national authorities. During 2003/04 she took leave from her academic post to be Chief Economist at Ofcom. She has acted as an advisor to the UK Competition Commission, the Irish Competition Authority and Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg). Her main publications are: "Competition and Market Power in Broadcasting: Where are the Rents?," (with Paul Seabright), in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, edited by Paul Seabright and Jürgen von Hagen, Cambridge University Press, April 2007; "Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital World," (with Mark Armstrong), in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, edited by Paul Seabright and Jürgen von Hagen, Cambridge University Press, April 2007; "Concurrency between OFT and Regulators," Utilities Policy 12(2): 65-69, June 2004; and "Strategic Delay in a Real Options Model of R&D Competition," Review of Economic Studies 69(3): 729-747, August 2002.
