Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation


The Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation in Mannheim, Germany is an economic research institute and a member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. Under the leadership of the directors Thomas Kohl, Georg Licht, Martin Peitz and Thomas Fetzer, president of the Institute, and Joachim Bornkamm, chairman of the advisory board, MaCCI employs a staff of about 33 researchers and about 20 Ph.D students. The MaCCI was established in Mannheim in 2008 and is still headquartered there. MaCCI is an initiative by the Centre for European Economic Research and the Mannheim School of Law and Economics of the University of Mannheim. Launched as a virtual platform in 2008, MaCCI has become a Leibniz‐ScienceCampus as of January 2012.The institute is organized as an NGO with a legal form of GmbH.

Organization and structure

Currently, the MaCCI is engaged in several research projects that are divided into four different research clusters:
The major objective of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation is to stimulate and disseminate research in the area of competition, regulation and innovation policy, broadly defined. The MaCCI community consists of researchers of the ZEW and the University of Mannheim who have a law or economics focus in the fields of competition, regulation and innovation policy. MaCCI further provides a platform for discussions between academic re‐ searchers and practitioners through the organization of recurrent events such as the MaCCI Annual Conference, the Mannheim Energy Conference, the MaCCI Law & Economics Conference, the MaCCI Summer Institute on Competition Policy, or the Mannheim Competition Policy Forum.

Selected publications

The following list is non-exhaustive: