The Contributors

Damien Geradin is a Professor of Law at the University of Liège and the College of Europe in Bruges. His areas of teaching and research include antitrust, network industries (telecommunications, postal services, energy and transport), and economic regulation in general.

He is also the Director of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), a think tank devoted to analytical research in the area of competition law, which is based at the College of Europe in Bruges. Mr. Geradin has held visiting professorships at many leading academic institutions including King’s College London, the University of Paris II, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Peking University Law School. He has also held visiting Professorships at leading US law schools, including Columbia, Harvard and Yale.

In the winter 2006, he will be for the second time a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School teaching a course on global antitrust law and economics with Professor Einer Elhauge.

Mr. Geradin has published 15 books and more than 50 legal and economic papers in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Competition and Economics, World Competition, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Network Economics Review, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of European Law, the Journal of World Trade, the Journal of International Economic Law, the European Foreign Affairs Review, and the Utilities Law Review.

Nicolas Petit is a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Liège. His Phd. subject focuses on oligopoly control in EC Competition Law. Together with Professor Geradin, he is the author of several pioneering studies on price discrimination under EC competition rules and the concept of dominance as well as the founder of the Antitrust Hotch Potch, the first academic web log dedicated to EC Competition Law.

In addition to this, Mr Petit has also published articles on the essential facilities doctrine, the interface between competition law and sector-specific regulation, judicial remedies under EC competition law, the introduction of competition rules within international agreements etc. Nicolas Petit holds degrees in Law from the universities Paris V (René Descartes) and Paris II, (Pantheon Assas) and a LL.M in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He served as an assistant to a Judge at the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation, Chambre Commerciale).

Simon Bishop has worked in economic consultancy since 1991. Hehas advised on a number of major cases before the EC Commission and national competition authorities. Clients advised by Simon include GE, Carlton, British Airways, Microsoft, FA Premier League, BUPA, Canal+ and UEFA. He has particular expertise in the application of quantitative techniques both in the context of assessing the likely competitive effects of mergers and also in nonmerger settings.

Mr. Bishop has published widely including reports and articles onmarket definition, collective dominance in merger control, biddingmarkets and vertical restraints. He is the co-author of The Economicsof EC Competition Law (2nd edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2002).

Yongmin Chen is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder. His field of research is industrial organization, and his research areas include vertical organization of industries, price formation in markets with search and/or switching costs, oligopoly models of product differentiation, and international trade and organizations. He currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder.

In addition, he is Associate Editor of European Economic Review, Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and Editorial Advisor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Thomas P. Gehrig is a Professor of Economics and Vice Dean at the Department of Economics and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Freiburg, where he has been teaching economics since 1997. He received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 1990 and a Diploma in Volkswirtschaftslehre from the University of Bonn in 1986. His fields of research and teaching include industrial organization, competition policy, financial economics, the economics of switching costs and economic geography. He has published papers on banking competition, intermediation in search markets, competing markets, self regulation, information sharing and industrial structure in network markets. His current research interests include dynamic pricing and endogenous switching costs.

He is also working on incentives to produce information and Schumpeterian models of innovation. Professor Gehrig has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University (1993), Rice University (1998-2000) and the University of Pennsylvania (2003). He held a Hanken senior distinguished fellowship at the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki in 2001. Professor Gehrig is a fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in its Industrial Economics and Financial Economics programs and a member of the executive council of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).

Rune Stenbacka is Professor of Economics at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki since 1996. He also serves as co-director for the Research Unit of Economic Structures and Growth at the University of Helsinki. Professor Stenbacka’s research has predominantly focused on industrial economics with a particular focus on applied oligopoly theory and competition policy. He has also made contributions to the theory of financial intermediation, to labour economics and to the economics of technology.

Rune Stenbacka is an associate editor of European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization and Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. Professor Stenbacka has been a member of the Competition Council in Finland and he is presently a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the European Commission.

Anne Perrot is Vice-Chair at Conseil de la Concurrence since October 2004. She was previously full professor at University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne. Anne Perrot received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics.

In addition to her work at the Université de Paris I, she was former Head of Laboratoire d'Economie Industrielle (CREST). She belongs  to the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy working with the Chief Economics of the DG Comp L-H. Röller. Before becoming a full professor at the Sorbonne, she was a teaching fellow at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, a lecturer, then assistant professor, at the Sorbonne and a professor at the University of Le Mans. From 1992 to 1995, she worked as the scientific advisor to the Observatoire Economique et Statistique des Transports, the French Ministry of Transports. She was also a member of the Economic Council of the Electricity Regulator.

Anne Perrots research fields include industrial economics, competition policy, regulation, and network economics. During her studies she was awarded prizes by the Association Française de Sciences Economiques and the Chancellerie des Universités. She has been a member of the expert group on the telecommunications deregulation in France, a member of the TACIS-ACE expert group on the savings market in Russia, and she is co-editor of an economics journal, Economie et Prévision. She has published extensively in international economic reviews in the field of competition policy and has edited the book Réglementation et concurrence, a collection of papers on regulation and competition.

David Spector is a Professor of Economics at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He also teaches Industrial Organization and Law and Economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research in Industrial Organization and its applications to competition law has been published in numerous journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique and Competition Policy International.

David Spector is also a co-author of several books, including Issues in Competition Law and Policy (American Bar Association, ed.), and Le nouveau droit communautaire de la concurrence (Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, ed.) He is also a co-author of a forthcoming report on competition policy for the French Prime Minister’s Conseil d’Analyse Economique.

David Spector has provided expert testimony before the French Competition Authority, the European Commission and the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.