Today's highlight of #ACE conference at Bocconi University. Best paper award for Kei Kawai from Berkeley für a piece on #cartel detection. Easy to implement regression discontinuity design. This will soon see quite some real-world application, I guess. 1/2

@proffionasm.bsky.social at the #ACE conference on the use of economics in regulating digital industries: economists need not be humble! Not so many lawyers in the room 😄

Opening speech of the 2024 #ACE conference by Hans Zenger at #Bocconi University in Milan. First topic is an evergreen: the tension between industrial policy and competition policy!

Wow, The Economist supports labour in the British elections

@tomasoduso.bsky.social at the #MaCCI #Law and #Economics conference at #ZEW in Mannheim. Topics is remedies in #merger control. Tomaso suggests ex post control and adaption of remedies.

Investigativjournalismus am Limit

Heute mal ein bisschen Industriepolitik - mal sehen, wie der Staatssekretär die mit der Wettbewerbspolitik zusammenbekommt.
#tpw24

Schön was es heute!

An example of cartel instability

Interesting comparison in The Economist on the development of State aid in EU and UK pre- and post-Brexit: The UK has actually become more EU-like, that is more State aid as share of GDP, but even less transparent. So even more industrial policies to be expected.

www.economist.com/britain/2023...

While I missed Nathan Miller's talk in "Industrial Organization and The Rise of Market Power" at the ACE conference, the slides are really worth reading, too.

The talk tackled the question of rising markups: is it technological change or market power?

www.nathanhmiller.org/miller_marke...

@achimtruger.bsky.social stellt in aller Kürze das neue Jahresgutachten des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social beim Forum New Economy vor. Schwerpunkt: wie wird wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit im Gutachten adressiert.