Visiting Olin Fellow (Winter 2008)

Jakob began his economic studies at the University of Hamburg, then continued at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He soon focused on industrial organization, strategic behavior and competition policy. He spent a semester at the University of Toulouse, before completing his master thesis on “Private Enforcement of Competition Law in the EU” in 2004. He obtained his master degree in international economic studies in late 2004 and went on to work for the global competition practice of international consultants LECG in Madrid, applying economic theory in competition litigation and merger cases. 

That year he was awarded the 2003/04 Encore Master Thesis Prize and, upon the offer to join ENCORE and ACLE as a guest researcher, returned to academia in late 2005. He elaborated a reply to the Commission’s Green Paper on facilitating private enforcement and his first peer-reviewed article on the efficient combination of private and public enforcement in Europe, which was published in World Competition in late 2006.
 

Currently, Jakob is a PhD candidate at the ACLE, working with Prof. Joseph McCahery and Dr. Maarten Pieter Schinkel on the relationship of regulation and enforcement in competition law, the optimal mix of public and private enforcement of competition law, antitrust damage estimation, the importance of vertical chains in enforcement, the use and limitations of cost benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment as well as comparative studies of different competition and securities law enforcement systems.  He will conduct research on collective actions and third party assignment of private damage claims.