Hans W. Friederiszick
Faculty Professional, ESMT and Managing Director of ESMT Competition Analysis
Hans W. Friederiszick was appointed managing director of ESMT Competition Analysis in October 2006 and the following year in July he joined ESMT’s full-time faculty as a Faculty Professional. Before joining ESMT he was part of the Chief Economist Team of DG COMP (since 2003) which is responsible for the economic assessment of antitrust, merger and state aid cases.
His interests lie in the fields of applied microeconomics and industrial organization, with a specialization in competition economics. Beside his involvement in merger and antitrust cases he was during his stay at the Commission one of the main contributors to the development of what is called the “refined economic approach in the field of State aid,” including contributions to the SAAP and the recently adopted R&D&I Guidelines. He worked on several important state aid cases, on IPR related merger and antitrust cases as well as on cartel cases. Recent publications address inter alia economic methods for cartel detection, the economics of state aid control and the more economic approach in competition policy. He is also author of a study on the effectiveness of State aid measures, carried out 2003 for DG ECFIN. Before working for the Commission he was partner of an economic consulting firm, where he gained a wide experience in the management and implementation of academic research and consulting projects. He has prepared studies for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA) and the European Commission, and has written numerous reports for industrial associations and private enterprises. Hans W. Friederiszick was awarded his doctorate from the PhD program “Applied Microeconomics,” offered jointly by the Free University and the Humboldt University Berlin. His dissertation was titled “Competition and Firm Cooperation.”
