Joel Stiebale
joelstiebale.bsky.social
Joel Stiebale
@joelstiebale.bsky.social
Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics at DICE, Heinrich Heine University.
We are hiring a #postdoc in international economics and/or economic policy at @dice.hhu.de to start in October.
June 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
How do cross-border mergers & acquisitions affect innovation in the EU? In a new working paper, I discuss this question and the implications for foreign direct investment screening, merger policy and industrial policy: single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/publications...
Cross-border M&A and innovation in the EU
This paper analyzes the characteristics of cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) in the EU and discusses their relationship with innovation performance.
single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu
April 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Very excited to share that our paper is out. It has been fantastic to work with such a great team @doepper.com @amackay.bsky.social @natehmiller.bsky.social
Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019.

One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.
March 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Call for papers Leuven Summer Event 2025!
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- IO, Applied Micro and Macro on different days.
- The IO workshop takes place on May 26-27
- For more information, see:

feb.kuleuven.be/research/eco...
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Leuven Summer Event: workshops in various fields in Economics
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December 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Very much looking forward to my keynote speech on "Common Threads on Common Ownership" at the DICE Competition Policy Conference 2024 this Friday in Düsseldorf
www.dice.hhu.de/en/competiti...
December 2, 2024 at 2:08 PM
How does patent protection affect innovation and market power? Apoorva Gupta and I find that in India, stronger patents spurred R&D investment. Markups increased, but mainly due to lower marginal costs. See our new @voxeu.org column: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…#EconSkyky
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…
November 28, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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The programme for the third CMA-Durham workshop is now out!

14-15 November, with great presentations by @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @joelstiebale.bsky.social and others, our forthcoming CMA State of UK Competition report, and a keynote by Tommaso Valletti.

Attendance is free and open to all.

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October 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Very happy to join the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) at DG Comp (European Commission). Looking forward to working with outstanding colleagues. competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/chief-compet....
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Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP)
competition-policy.ec.europa.eu
September 19, 2024 at 8:07 AM
We are hiring several PhD students at @dice-hhu.bsky.social to start in October 2024. Our program focusses on industrial organization, competition policy, international economics, behavioral economics and econometrics.
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March 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM