The Amsterdam Center for Digital Competition will be launched in an opening event on 22 May. The event will take place in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. The Center is run by Amsterdam School of Economics professors Sander Onderstal and Maarten Pieter Schinkel, along with Dr Amit Zac of the Amsterdam Law School.
Speakers in the opening event are open-source advocate Marleen Stikker (Waag Futurelab/HvA) and digital platform economist and behavioural theorist Paul Heidhues (DICE, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics).
About the Center
The Amsterdam Center for Digital Competition is an academic research hub at the University of Amsterdam dedicated to exploring the regulation of digital markets. It brings together scholars from economics, law, and technology to analyse and address challenges posed by digital platforms and our evolving digital economies. More information can be found on the Center's website.
The opening event
'Big Tech Power and Policy' will feature internet expert and open source advocate Marleen Stikker (Waag Futurelab/HvA) and digital platform economist and behavioural theorist Paul Heidhues (DICE). They will present their latest insights on digital platform power problems, ecosystems theories of harm, and possible remedies to help restore open, free, and competitive online services. The opening event is followed by the defense of PhD candidate Ruben van Oosten, who will defend his thesis Papers in the Economics of Platforms.
More information, including a registration form, can be found on the event's website.
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