Biographical note

Massimo Motta is the author of Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and the co-author of Exclusionary Practices. The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission from 2013 to 2016. Martin Peitz is the co-author of Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2015) and The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is Co-Director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI). Heike Schweitzer was one of three special advisors to Commissioner Vestager on future challenges of digitisation for competition policy and co-authored the report on Competition policy for the digital era. She co-chaired the German governmental Commission Competition Law 4.0 and advised the German Economic Ministry on the reform of the regime of abuse control in the context of the 10th amendment to the German Competition Law.