Monika Schnitzer
Monika Schnitzer is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. Her research focuses on innovation, competition policy, and multinational corporations. From 2015 to 2016, she was President of the German Economic Association. For the past 20 years, she has been active in policy advice for the German government and the European Commission, including as member of the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation and the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of DG Competition. She was also member of Expert Commission Competition Law 4.0, which wrote the Report ‘A new competition framework for the digital economy’ for the German Federal Government in 2019. Since 2020, she has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
Antitrust and Competition
How Europe Can Enforce the Digital Markets Act Effectively
As the European Commission gets ready to embark on the complicated task of implementing the recently agreed-upon Digital Market Act, which would...
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Antitrust and Competition
New Research Shows The Breakup of IG Farben Increased Innovation
IG Farben used to be the world’s largest chemical company and a major innovator—until it was broken up in one of the...
Antitrust and Competition
Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay
An excerpt from a new book, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win...
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Democratize Work
An excerpt from a new book, Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, advocates democratizing firms and decommodifying work.
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Enforcement, Inflation and Corporate Greed: What do we know?
Tommaso Valletti, Luigi Zingales, José Azar, Thomas Philippon, Jan Eeckhout, Basile Grassi, Cristina Caffarra
At a recent Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) event, panelists, including the Stigler Center's own Luigi Zingales, reflected on the roles...
Antitrust and Competition
Data is Abundant But is it Accessible to Researchers?
Despite the wide availability of data, ensuring independent access to data sources has never been more crucial. How can researchers engage in...
Antitrust and Competition
Private Labels in Online Marketplaces
On their store shelves, Walmart has its own products under the "Great Value” brand, and Tesco has its own “Everyday Value” products....
Antitrust and Competition
Bolsonaro’s reelection may become a setback for ESG in Brazil
Social pressures, market forces and elected leaders influence corporate decisions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Journalist Stephanie Tondo examines the...
