Industrial Policy
Abstract
Industrial policy has recently gained prominence in the policy agenda in many countries. It figures prominently in the plans of the new European Commission. In September this year, the report by Mario Draghi on competitiveness was released, which is likely to shape the thinking of policymakers in the EU. As part of the debate on industrial policy, it contains proposals on how to overhaul competition law. Martin Peitz will report on the current policy debate and critically examine some of the reform proposals.
About the Speaker
Martin Peitz is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim and a director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation - MaCCI. He has been an academic director of the Centre on Regulation in Europe, CERRE (2012-2016) and head of the Department of Economics in Mannheim (2010-2013). Martin Peitz is author of the graduate textbook “Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies” and the monograph "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy," both co-authored with Paul Belleflamme and published by Cambridge University Press. His research on industrial organization and microeconomics has been widely published in leading economics journals. He is a frequent public speaker and has been advising a number of competition authorities, sector regulators, and government bodies in Europe and abroad.
