Course Description
The 18th Advanced Summer School in Economics and Econometrics will be held from June 30th to July 4th, 2025, at the University Campus in Rethymno, Crete. The topic of the School is “Empirical Models of Demand and Entry in Industrial Organization“.
Prof. Frank Verboven, Professor of Economics, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Christos Genakos, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, will be the guest lecturers.
Up to 50 students will be accepted to the program.
Since 2006 the Department of Economics of the University of Crete has been successfully running its Advanced Summer School in Economics and Econometrics. The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on important disciplines of economics and econometrics. The Summer School follows a traditional structure: morning lectures and afternoon computer practical sessions. The specialized topic varies from year to year and reflects issues currently lively areas of new research and policy interest. The faculty comprises leaders in the field and offers an overall coverage of the specialist area.
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Through systematic interaction, participants will be encouraged to compare their approaches and examine their research work. A unique opportunity will be given to advanced doctoral students to present their own work and discuss it with the Distinguished Guest Professor. The Advanced Summer School Series on Economics and Econometrics facilitates the establishment of contacts between young researchers coming from various universities and research institutions throughout Europe.
Instructors
Prof. Frank Verboven is a Professor of Economics at the KU Leuven and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research interests lie in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy and applied microeconomics. He is currently the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and has served as Co-Editor or Associate Editor of many prestigious economics journals, including the Journal of Industrial Economics, Economic Journal, and European Economic Review.
Prof. Christos Genakos is a Professor of Economics at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research interests include applied microeconomics, industrial organisation, competition policy and regulation, productivity and management, incentives and performance and behavioural economics. He is associated with the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) in the London School of Economics and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) of the Chief Economist of the EU’s DG Competition Commission, while he has also advised many leading firms on regulation, antitrust and pricing related issues.