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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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
Antitrust and Competition
Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...