Paul de Bijl

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Paul de Bijl is head of the department Competition & Regulation at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Dutch public think tank for economic policy research. He obtained a PhD in Economics at CentER, Tilburg University, joint with the University of Toulouse, within the framework of European doctoral program ENTER. After that, he worked as a consultant at Science & Strategy, researcher at CPB, policy advisor at the Financial and Economic Policy Directorate of the Department of Finance, and research coordinator of TILEC (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) at Tilburg University. He is member of the executive committee of the KVS (Royal Netherlands Economic Association), advisory member of the committee on competition and governance of the SER (Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands), fellow of ENCORE (Economics Network for Competition and Regulation) and extramural fellow of TILEC. His main research interests are regulatory economics and industrial organization, in particular applied to telecommunications markets.

Paul has published in various academic journals, including Telecommunications Policy, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Regulatory Economics and Information Economics and Policy. With Martin Peitz he wrote the book Regulation and Entry into Telecommunications Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2002; Chinese translation 2006; paperback edition 2008), which has received positive critical acclaim from academics, consultants and regulators. Paul was guest editor (with Jos Huigen) of the special issue “Future Telecommunications Regulation: A Dutch Perspective” of Telecommunications Policy (vol. 32(11), 2008). He is a member of the International Editorial Board of Communications & Strategies and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Policy.

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