Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.

Hi! Early registration is over, and participation is high. There are just a handful of seats left for this great event. For those interested, don't miss this opportunity. This Summer School rocks! Frank Verboven Christos Genakos ASSEE Welcome Office of the University of Crete #econtwitter #summerschool #crete

I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002 Econ Job News #econjobs #econtwitter

When the stock market tells you you've made the largest policy mistake ever recorded.

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Slimme kilometerheffing levert volgens nieuwe studie veel meer op dan ze kost tijd.be/politiek-econo…

Congratulations to Frank Verboven (Frank Verboven) for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in empirical IO and related fields. His term starts on July 1. I’m delighted to have him on our team. AEA Journals

🏅 Big congrats to Giulia Brancaccio of NYU Stern Economics, winner of the 2025 Carlo Alberto Medal for her pioneering work in Industrial Organization and Market Design! Read the new: bit.ly/44AdpXI #EconomicsAward #CarloAlbertoMedal #cca #economics #ccaresearch

I explain today why the Single market is broken: mutual recognition is not what we think it is; harmonisation actually fragments, and the Commission is not doing its core job. If you only ever read one post, let it be this one siliconcontinent.com/p/the-myth-of-…

#IOTwitter - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and great invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share! 🙏

Forthcoming IJIO article by John Vickers "Should competition monopolise merger policy?" 📑doi.org/10.1016/j.ijin… Elsevier | ScienceDirect

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20397 Demand, Competition and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Frank Verboven KU Leuven ow.ly/6ING50Wjx7a #CEPR_IO #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_CCE #EconTwitter

How Europe can be a smart second mover in AI

Very excited to see my first (and I expect, not last) paper w Zi Yang Kang out in print. Thread👇on what this paper is about + why I hope lots of folks will use it.