Still time left to register for #ccp2022conf: Frontiers in Competition and Regulation. Topics include regulation and inflation, digital regulation, privacy and competition, killer acquisitions and many more! Programme here: bit.ly/3axdEbT More details below:👀⬇️

Excited to be invited to the Scientific Committee of this year's Compass Lexecon Economics Conference on "Recent developments in the economics of mergers, and the scope for novel techniques and analysis" Call for papers and submission info here: compasslexecon.com/compass-lexeco…

CLEEN2022 has just kicked off at Centre for Competition Policy. CLEEN is network of universities active in the area of competition law&econ (ACLE, CCP, EUI, BECCLE, MaCCi, Max Planck Inst, and Tilburg Law&Econ Centre) providing a platform for PhD students to disscuss their work. Photo from CLEEN2008

A sad moment to share this obituary of our friend and colleague Steve Davies. competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/ste…

"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries."

Spent the last few months finishing my first fiction novel. Getting back to writing academic papers afterwards is hard. Finding it difficult to resist the temptation to describe my study design and empirical strategy in elevated prose, or to develop characters for my equations

Thanks chatgpt, close, but no cigar

Ready to present our work on Recommender Systems at BBC Research & Development with Rahul Savani

How do recommender systems affect competition between suppliers on a platform? We're running a workshop for policy stakeholders, and there are a limited number of in-person and less-limited number of online places still available. eventbrite.co.uk/e/recommender-…

Our workshop on Recommender Systems and Competition Policy is fast approaching. We still have 4 in-person and more online places left. competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/recomme…

Really enjoyed talking about digital markets at this Competition Forum organised by Compass Lexecon and meeting the inimitable Thibault Schrepel and chat about his complexity antitrust work.

In an attempt to make many people jealous: I was fortunate enough to end up sitting next to Tim Harford at a conference yesterday. Tim's books have been really important in my professional development and made me a much better teacher (looking forward to The Truth Detective)

Have a look at the new edition of Sci Phi Journal. Great stories, philosophical sci-fi, and my short story 'Brown noise'.

Read my short story in Sci Phi Journal and let me know if you liked it or not