Marcel Canoy,

Marcel Canoy did his PhD thesis called "Bertrand meets the fox and the owl, essays on the theory of price competition", in Amsterdam in 1993. After academic post doc positions at CEPREMAP, Paris, France ("Human Capital and Mobility Program" of the EC), the Center of Economic Studies, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), he moved to the CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the independent economic think tank of the Dutch government, where he was head of department ‘competition and regulation'. He joined BEPA, the think tank of EC President Barroso, on 1 June 2005. In BEPA he worked on the European Social Model, the Single Market, Migration, Youth and the Capabilities approach.

His professional fields of interest are competition and competition policy, institutional economics, cultural economics, telecommunications, theory of industrial organization, network industries, (de)regulation, social security and health economics, land, housing and spatial economics, European integration, information economics, corporate governance, migration and the welfare state.