This conference series aims to contribute to an analytical understanding of the issues raised by competition, innovation and investment, develop empirical protocols and tests of economic models, promote the exchange and the dissemination of results at the forefront of research, and finally, evaluate current competition and regulation policies. It will cover the state of the art in applied and empirical industrial organization.

The conference is normally preceded by a School on Applied Industrial Organization, aimed at PhD students to provide a forum for intellectual exchanges between them and more experienced researchers in the field of industrial organization. 

Since 2010, the Conference has received funding from the Journal of Industrial Economics. 

The steering committee includes:
Bart Bronnenberg (Tilburg University and CEPR)
Gregory S Crawford (University of Zurich and CEPR)
Peter J Davis (Cornerstone Research)
Jan De Loecker (Princeton University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, NBER and CEPR)
Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester, IFS, and CEPR)
Myrto Kalouptsidis (Harvard University and CEPR)
Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim and CEPR)
Andrea Prat (Columbia University and CEPR)
Mar Reguant (Northwestern University and CEPR)
Katharine Rockett (University of Essex and CEPR)
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna and CEPR)
Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", and CEPR)
Frank Verboven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR)
Nikos Vettas (Athens University of Economics & Business and CEPR)

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