Short Curriculum Vitae

Frank P. Maier-Rigaud, Ph.D.

Academic Career

Since 1995 studies at:

• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., Germany (Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology),
• Indiana University Bloomington, USA (Economics, Political Science),
• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (Economics),
• Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Economics, Sociology),
• University of California, Berkeley, USA (Economics, Political Science).

Degrees earned

• 1992 Honors Highschool Diploma, Holt Highschool, Michigan, USA
• 1994 bilingual German/ French Abitur/ Baccallaureat, Hardtberg-Gymnsaium, Bonn, Germany
• 1997 BA in Economics/Business Administration, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
• 1998 MA in Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA
• 2001 MA in Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA (under Lin Ostrom)
• 2002 Ph.D. cand. in Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA
• 2008 Ph.D. in Economics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (under Reinhard Selten)

Academic positions

• 1996-1997 Research Assistant, Institut für Allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung, Abteilung für Wirtschaftspolitik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
• 1997-1998 Rainer Horstmann Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington.
• 1998-2001 Research Associate, Teaching Assistant, Associate Instructor and Instructor, Department of Economics and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA.
• 1998-2003 Research Associate, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA.
• 1999-2007 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany.
• 1999-2000 Member of the Project Group "Making Choices" organized by Joachim Frohn, Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt and Reinhard Selten at the Center for interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany.
• 2000-2001 Instructor, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.
• 2004-2008 Research Associate, Laboraty for Experimental Economics, Department of Economics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• since 2004 Senior Economist, Directorate General Competition, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• since 2008 Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany.

Selected Talks

Invited Speaker


• "Assessing Rebates under Article 102 TFEU",
  IBC, 14th Dominance & Pricing in Europe Conference, 25 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
• "Pro Regulation, Pro Competition",
  Energy Institute (EI), 19 February 2009, London, United Kingdom (report on the presentation in European Gas Daily 20.02.2009 and in platts: EU Energy 27.02.2009).
• "Some basic remarks on rebates",
  European Competition Journal Conference, Jesus College Oxford, 17 July 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom (report on the presentation in Global Competition Review, 21.07.2009).
• "Die Anwendung der Wettbewerbsvorschriften auf den Energiesektor und die Rolle der Beihilfenpolitik in der Finanzkrise",
  Jahrestagung des Instituts für Energie- und Regulierungsrecht Berlin e.V., 1-2 December 2008, Berlin, Germany.
• "Antitrust Remedies in EU Law",
  Conference on Antitrust Remedies for Dominant Firm Misconduct, American Bar Association (ABA), 4-5 June 2008, Charlottesville, USA.
• "The EU's Sector Inquiry tool",
  Conference on Competition Policy in Regulated or 'Special' Sectors, Regulatory Policy Institute, University of Oxford, 2-3 July 2007, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• "The Commission's upcoming White Paper on Damages Actions: An Economic Perspective",
  Conference on Private Enforcement in Competition Law: Legal and Economic Issues, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), 2 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium.
• "Running A Sector Inquiry",
  Market Investigations and Sector Inquiries, Conference organized jointly by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Competition Commission, 21 February 2007, London, United Kingdom.
• "Sector Inquiries - Lightning rod or catalyst?",
  LECG Competition Policy Weekend, 2-3 February 2007, Dogmersfield Park, United Kingdom.
• "The EU competition policy regime",
  National People's Congress, Anti-monopoly subcommittee, 18-19 December 2006, Beijing, China.
• "The review of Article 82",
  American Bar Association (ABA), Meeting of the Antitrust Law Section, 16-17 November 2006, Washington DC, USA.
• "EU Sector Inquiries versus UK Market Investigations",
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), 18 October 2006, London, United Kingdom.
• "Antitrust remedies and sanctions",
  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 97th Meeting of the Competition Committee and working party meetings, 6-9 June 2006, Paris, France.
• "Private enforcement and calculation of damages",
  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 6-7 February 2006, Paris, France.

Conferences



• "On Purchase Decisions with Non-linear Pricing Options under Risk",
  33rd conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 25-27 August 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• "An economic methodology for initiating ex-officio cartel investigations",
  Forensic Economics in Competition Law Enforcement, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE), 17 March 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• "An Experimental Analysis of Rebate Schemes",
  Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF), 6-7 September 2005, City University London, London, United Kingdom. (with Martin Beckenkamp)
• "Public Goods versus Common-Pool Resources",
  Conference on the Empirical Investigation of Theoretical Models (EITM), Indiana University, 25. January 2003, Bloomington, USA.
• "Cournot Competition and Common-Pool Resources",
  International Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in Pittsburgh, 20. June 2003, USA.
• "The Role of Choice in Social Dilemma Experiments",
  European Economic Science Association Meetings in Strasbourg, 28. September 2002, France (University Louis Pasteur).
• "Cournot Competition and Common-Pool Resources",
  International Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in Pittsburgh, 20. June 2003, USA.
• "The Role of Choice in Social Dilemma Experiments",
  10th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, 19-23 August 2003, Marstrand, Sweden.
• "Public Goods versus Common-Pool Resources",
  Conference on the Empirical Investigation of Theoretical Models (EITM), Indiana University, 25. January 2003, Bloomington, USA.
• "The Role of Choice in Dilemma Games",
  Meeting of the European Network for the Development of Experimental Economics and its Application to Research on Institutions and Individual Decision Making (ENDEAR),
  March 2003, Universiteit van Amsterdam: Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making (CREED), Netherlands.
• "Alexander Rüstow: Das Versagen des Wirtschaftsliberalismus",
  4th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) "Is there progress in Econmics?", 24-27 February 2000, University of Graz, Austria.

other presentations



• "Loss of Exclusivity and Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Experimental Evidence",
  Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, 6-9 June 2009, Hohenheim, Germany.
• "On Purchase Decisions with Non-linear Pricing Options under Risk",
  Department of Economics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 13. February 2006, Bonn, Germany.
• "The Role of Rivalry: Public Goods versus Common-Pool Resources",
  Department of Economics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 8. December 2003, Bonn, Germany.
• "Public Goods Versus Common-Pool Resources - Theoretical and Experimental Aspects",
  Department of Economics and Energiewirtschaftliches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 11. November 2003, Cologne, Germany.
• "Collective Action as Anti-Competitive Partial Equilibrium Solution to Dilemma Games",
  Université de Montpellier I, Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'économie théorique et appliquée (LAMETA), 28. August 2003, Montpellier, France.
• "Collusion or Collective Action?",
  Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 15. January 2003, Lansing, USA.
• "Public Good versus Common-Pool Resource Games",
  Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington, 13. January 2003, Bloomington, USA.
• "Cournot and Common-Pool Resource Games",
  Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, 8. January 2003, Bloomington, USA.
• "Are Findings in Social Dilemma Experiments too Pessimistic? Freedom of Choice in a Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment",
  Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Strategic Interaction Unit, 13. November 2002, Jena, Germany.
• "Collusion as Solution to Public Good Problems?",
  Laboratoire d'Economie Publique de l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 18. October 2002, Paris, France.
• "Freedom of Choice in Social Dilemma Experiments",
  Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, 11. February 2002, Berlin, Germany
• "Das Versagen des Wirtschaftsliberalismus von Alexander Rüstow",
  Institut für allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung - Abteilung Wirtschaftspolitik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., Juli 2000, Freiburg, Germany..

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