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Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Attn:  Prof. Röller
Research Unit:  MP/CIG
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin, Germany

Room. D102
Tel:  +(49) 0(30) 25491-440
Fax:                              -442

Professor of Economics, 
Chair for Industrial Economics,
Humboldt University, Berlin

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Professor Röller founded CIC (now CIG) in 1994. He holds the Chair of Industrial Economics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been on the faculty at INSEAD and was a visitor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1993); the Department of Economics and C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University (1992); and the Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (1989).

Professor Röller is a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and is the co-director of CEPR's program in Industrial Organization. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Economics, an editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and a member of the Executive Board of E.A.R.I.E. (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics). In September 2003 he became the first Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, where he was responsible for the economic analysis in merger control, cartel investigations, market abuse and state aid control. In 2002 he was awarded the Gossen Award, and in 2004 he was appointed Fellow of the European Economic Association.

On September 1, 2006, Professor Röller became the President of ESMT, the European School of Management and Technology GmbH. He continues at the WZB as Research Professor and Head of the Project "Competition and Innovation".

Professor Röller's research interests are in the area of Industrial Organization with special interest in models of heterogeneous firm behavior, market structure and competition policy. More specifically, his interests lie in the area of empirical industrial organization, developing structural econometric models of market and cost characteristics and their implications for policy and strategy. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Journal, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.