Dr. W. Benedikt Schmal
Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics, Ilmenau University of Technology
Research Affiliate, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, HHU Duesseldorf
Research Associate, Department for Management, Strategy, and Innovation, KU Leuven
Oskar Morgenstern Fellow 2023/24, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Further affiliations: Ostrom Workshop (Indiana University), NOUS Network
Research Interests: Economics of Science, Industrial Organization, Ostromian Governance
Profiles: Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, Researchgate, GitHub.
Contact: wolfgang-benedikt.schmal@tu-ilmenau.de - please reach out anytime!
Welcome to my personal website!
I am a postdoctoral researcher in competition economics, the economics of science, and quantitative economics at Ilmenau University of Technology. Previously, I have been a research group lead at Walter Eucken Institute. I hold a PhD in competition economics from the Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics at Heinrich Heine University (HHU). I am genuinely interested in the economics of science, open access, and academic publishing. Using a blend of theoretical and empirical methods, I analyze 'transformative agreements' between university consortia and publishers. My second strand of research addresses the nexus of industrial organization and institutional economics applied to collusion. I am working on fruitfully merging governance research with industrial organization.
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
upcoming in 2024
Open Access Days, TH Köln UAS (DE)
EEA-ESEM Annual Conference 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
11th OLIGO Workshop, University of Crete (GR)
Munich Summer Institute 2024, LMU Munich University (DE)
11th Football & Finance Conference, University Duisburg-Essen (DE)
60th Hohenheim Colloquium, Philipps University Marburg (DE)
WOW7 - Commons, Polycentricity, & Democracy: Building upon 50 years of Ostrom Governance Research: Indiana University, Bloomington (IN, USA)
28th Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), University of Chicago (IL, USA)
Interdisciplinary Brownbag Seminar of Behavioral Sciences – Theory and Empirics, MU-CEN: Maastricht University Center of Neuroeconomics (NL) - invited
attended in 2024
NOUS Spotlight Seminar: NOUS Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (online)
51st Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (AT)
OASPA Panel Session on the impact of "Plan S" (online)
“The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research” Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (IT)