Frank Verboven
Professor of Economics, KU Leuven
Frank Verboven is a professor of economics at the KU Leuven. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), and member of the Economic Advisory Group of Competition Policy at DG-Competition of the European Commission. He was Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics (2003-2008) and holder of the Chair of Innovation and Regulation at Telecom ParisTech (2012-2015). He served as chairman of the Department of Economics of KU Leuven (2013-2017).
Frank’s research focuses on Industrial Organisation, in particular the econometric analysis of market power, with applications to competition policy and regulation. He has developed tools for merger simulation and for evaluating these tools. He introduced a unified framework for evaluating cartel damages, showing how to account for the passing-on defense under imperfect competition. He has empirically evaluated the impact of vertical restraints such as exclusive territories and exclusive dealing. He also developed empirical models to study the impact of entry on market performance. His research covered a variety of industries, including the European automobile market (vertical restraints and mergers), the telecommunications industry (global and individual countries), pharmaceuticals, health care professions and local service sectors and liberal professions. His work has been published in various top international journals, including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied & Policy, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
He teaches industrial organisation, micro-economics and empirical methods for competition policy.
He has advised the European Commission, national competition authorities in several European member states, and many leading companies on various cases, including mergers, cartels and exclusionary practices, and damages from cartels and abuses.
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- PhD in Economics, University of Toronto
- MA in Economics, Univerisity of Toronto
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Subsidies and Time Discounting in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Systems
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Enrollment and Degree Completion in Higher Education without Admission Standards
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Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and Tax Policy: Evidence from the European Car Market
Frank Verboven, Laura Grigolon, Mathias Reynaert, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(3), 193-225, August 2018- Papers & reports
Evaluating Market Consolidation in Mobile Telecommunications
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The Battle of Traditional Retailers versus Discounters: the Role of Private Label Tiers
Frank Verboven, Gizem Hökelekli, Lien Lamey, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 39, 11-22, December 2017- Papers & reports
Private Label Line Proliferation and Private Label Tier Pricing: a New Dimension of Competition between Private Labels and National Brands
Frank Verboven, Gizem Hökelekli, Lien Lamey, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 36, 39-52, December 2017- Papers & reports
The Impact of Online Sales on Consumers and Firms — Evidence from Consumer Electronics
Frank Verboven, Nestor Duch-Brown, Lukasz Grzybowski, André Romahn, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 52, 30-62, November 2017- Papers & reports
Substitution between Fixed and Mobile Access – The Role of Complementarities
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Scrapping Schemes in the Financial Crisis – Evidence from Europe
Frank Verboven, Laura Grigolon, Nina Leheyda, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 44, 41-59, October 2016- Papers & reports
Heterogeneity in the Adoption of Photovoltaic Systems in Flanders
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Does Merger Simulation Work? Evidence from the Swedish Analgesics Market
Frank Verboven, Jonas Björnerstedt, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(3), 125-164, July 2016- Papers & reports
Exclusive Dealing as a Barrier to Entry? – Evidence from the Car Market
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Socio-economic Status and Enrollment in Higher Education: Do Costs Matter?
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Unbundling the Incumbent: Evidence from UK Broadband
Frank Verboven, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Valletti, Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(2), 330-362, March 2015- Papers & reports
Public Support to the European Car Industry: the Impact of the Financial Crisis
Frank Verboven, Laura Grigolon, Nina Leheyda, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 15(3), 283-321, March 2015- Papers & reports
Entry and Competition in Concentrated Markets with Product Differentiation
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Nested or Random Coefficients Logit? A Comparison between Alternative Discrete Choice Models of Product Differentiation
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Merger simulation with Nested Logit Demand: Implementation using Stata
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The effects of Environmental Policies in the Car Sector
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Improving the Performance of Random Coefficients Demand Models – the Role of Optimal Instruments
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Incumbency Advantages, Distribution Networks and Exclusivity – Evidence from the European Car Markets
Frank Verboven, Laura Nurski, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 34, 75-79, January 2014- Papers & reports
Market Definition of Broadband Internet in Slovakia: are Fixed and Mobile in the Relevant Market?
Rainer Nitsche, Frank Verboven, Lukasz Grzybowski, Lars Wiethaus, Information Economics and Policy, 28, 39-56, January 2014- Papers & reports
The Internal Economics of a University – Evidence from Personnel Data
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Vertical Control of a Distribution Network – Evidence from Magazines
- Cartels and other anti-competitive agreements
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Access Regulation, Competition, and Broadband Penetration: An International Study
Frank Verboven, Jan Bouckaert, Theon van Dijk, Telecommunications Policy, volume 34, issue 11, pp. 661-671, December 2010- Papers & reports
Empirical Analysis of Markets with Free and Restricted Entry
Frank Verboven, Stijn Ferrari, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28, 403-406, July 2010