Dr. W. Benedikt Schmal
Postdoctoral Researcher in Competition Economics, Ilmenau University of Technology
Additional Affiliations: MSI at KU Leuven, DICE at HHU Duesseldorf, Walter Eucken Institute, Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, NOUS Network, Oskar Morgenstern Fellow 23/24, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Research Interests: Economics of Science, Institutional Industrial Organization, Ostromian Governance
Profiles: Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, Researchgate, GitHub.
Contact: wolfgang-benedikt.schmal@tu-ilmenau.de - please reach out anytime!
(all older email addresses are still valid)
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
Jahrestagung Verein für Socialpolitik, [Annual Conference of the German Econ. Assoc.], TU Berlin -- Paper presentation + Invited Panelist on "Open Access in Economics" organized by ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Open Access Days, TH Köln UAS (DE) -- Invited Speaker in the Fishbowl discussion "How does the "DEAL" influence the German publishing landscape? " organized by ZB MED German National Library of Medicine
EEA-ESEM Annual Conference 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
51st Annual EARIE Conference 2024, University of Amsterdam (NL)
2nd International Conference on Empirical Economics, Penn State University, Altoona (PA, USA)
19th Annual ASCOLA Conference, JMU Würzburg (DE)
Interdisciplinary Brownbag Seminar of Behavioral Sciences – Theory and Empirics, MU-CEN: Maastricht University Center of Neuroeconomics (NL) - invited
attended in 2024
28th Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), University of Chicago (IL, USA)
WOW7 - Commons, Polycentricity, & Democracy: Building upon 50 years of Ostrom Governance Research: Indiana University, Bloomington (IN, USA)
11th OLIGO Workshop, University of Crete (GR)
Munich Summer Institute 2024, MPI InnoComp, LMU Munich (DE)
10th Football & Finance Conference, Mercator School of Management (DE)
60th Hohenheim Colloquium, Philipps University Marburg (DE)
51st Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, WU Vienna University (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)
NOUS Spotlight Seminar: Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (online)