David Imhof

David Imhof is an economist specializing in industrial organization, antitrust economics, and empirical methods for detecting cartels. He works as an economist at the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) and he serves as a research associate at the University of Fribourg and teaches statistics and econometrics at Unidistance (Switzerland). His research lies at the intersection of industrial organization, microeconomics, econometrics, and computational methods. His work has been published in journals including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A)Computational Economics, and the International Review of Law and Economics.

Can AI Catch Cartels Across Borders?

In new research, Yoan Hermstrüwer and David Imhof analyze how AI can help antitrust authorities predict cartels by assessing international bidding data in countries with similar legal and market structures.

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