The Oxera Economics Council is a group of leading European academics which meets biannually with Oxera economists and senior policy-makers to discuss major European policy questions in the areas of competition and regulation’.
The most recent meeting was on 12 November 2024 in Brussels, which focused on the relationship between competition policy, industrial policy and competitiveness (read the background paper here). The previous meeting focused on the reform of exclusionary abuse of dominance under Article 102 (read the background paper here).
The council is chaired by Sir John Vickers, Professor of Economics at All Souls College, Oxford and the current council members include:
- Amelia Fletcher, Professor of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia
- Chiara Fumagalli, Professor, Bocconi University
- Massimo Motta, Research Professor, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics
- Natalia Fabra, Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Volker Nocke, Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
- Dr Walter Beckert, Reader / Associate Professor of Economics, Birkbeck, University of London
- Yassine Lefouili, Director of TSE- Partnership and Professor, Toulouse 1 Capitole University
- Özlem Bedre, Professor of Economics, Joint Chair at the European University Institute Department of Economics and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Since 2008, the Oxera Economics Council has tackled numerous topics, including:
- Behavioural economics and remedies
- Competition in pharmaceuticals
- Competition in the labour market: what role for competition policy?
- Digital platforms: competition, market outcomes and regulation
- European Energy reform
- FRAND pricing obligations
- Incentivising publicly owned regulated organisations
- Mergers innovation and efficiency
- The economics of privacy
- Vertical Mergers
