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About CompNet
The Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) is a research network originally founded by the European System of Central Banks in 2012 to foster the debate on competitiveness issues among policy institutions and researchers. The Network is the producer of a top standard micro-founded dataset covering productivity indicators for some 20 European countries. The dataset, now at its 9th vintage, is available to researchers at request.
Since 2017, CompNet is an independently funded and regulated network, hosted at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). Members are contributing to the Network via financial support (Funding institutions) or provision and elaboration of data (Data providers). All Members are engaged in research and policy work related to productivity and are committed to improve granular data and knowledge to understand its drivers.
The Network has a simple and transparent governance structure, which includes three governing bodies, namely:
Data Providers
More informationFunding Institutions
More informationThe Steering Committee
The Steering Committee composed by representatives of each of the funding institutions, as well as data providers on a rotational basis – which sets the overall strategies of the Network
Filippo di Mauro is the Chairman of CompNet and Visiting Fellow at the Business School at National University of Singapore.
Eric Bartelsman is a Professor of Economics and General Director of the Tinbergen Institute.
Aurelija Proškutė is a Senior Economist at the Applied Macroeconomic Research Division at the Bank of Lithuania.
Ralph De Haas is the Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Associate Professor at Tilburg University.
Reint E. Gropp is the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and Professor of Economics at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
Vincent Aussilloux is the Director of the Economic Department at France Stratégie.
Josefina Monteagudo is the Deputy Head of Unit – Chief Economist Team at the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs at the European Commission.
Alessandro Turrini Is the head of Unit, Economies at the Member State, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, at the European Commission.
Rolf Strauch is Chief Economist and Management Board Member of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
Sébastien Roux is the Head of the Department of Economic Studies at Insee, the French national statistical institute.
Debora Revoltella is the Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank.
Niklas Garnadt is the the Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts.
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is formed by highly reputed scholars who provide guidance on the CompNet research objectives.
Ufuk Akcigit is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
Carlo Altomonte is an Associate Professor at the Bocconi University.
Eric Bartelsman is a Professor of Economics and General Director of the Tinbergen Institute.
Jan de Loecker is a Full Professor of Economics at KU Leuven.
William F. Maloney is the Chief Economist for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions in the World Bank Group.
Marc Melitz is the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.
Gianmarco Ottaviano is a Professor of Economics at the Bocconi University.
Chad Syverson is the J. Baum Harris Professor of Economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Kalina Manova is the Professor of Economics at the University College London.
Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is composed of the Chairperson and one senior manager each from the IWH and the ECB – the two institutions providing CompNet with staff support. The Executive Committee makes proposals to the Steering Committee on strategic direction and key activities, and ensures their subsequent implementation. It also allocates staff to the Research Team and the Scientific Team.
Filippo di Mauro is the Chairman of CompNet and Visiting Fellow at the Business School at National University of Singapore.
Javier Miranda is the Deputy Head of the Department of Structural Change and Productivity at the IWH (Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle).
CompNet Scientific Team
The CompNet Scientific Team includes senior researchers from the IWH and the ECB as well as talented research analysts (including PhD students) from the two institutions. The team promotes research projects on competitiveness and productivity issues using the CompNet dataset; organises workshops and conferences on these issues; and manages the firm-level data collection as well as the implementation of new methodologies and indicators into the CompNet dataset.
IWH Staff
Matthias Mertens is the Coordinator of Scientific Team and the Head of IWH-CompNet group.
Senior Researchers
Peter Haug is a Senior Economist in the Department of Structural Change and Productivity at the IWH.
Research Analysts
Tommaso Bighelli is a PhD student at the IWH.
Jonathan Deist is a PhD student at the IWH.
Verena Plümpe is an Economist at the IWH.
Anna Francesca Kern is a Master Student at the MLU.
Clemens Häfner is a Master Student in Economics at Leipzig University.
Ahmed Elhefnawy is a Bachelor Student at the Martin Luther University.
Dieu Hong Le is a Master Student in Economics, Data science and Policy at the MLU.
Ida Dorn is is a PhD Student at the IWH.
External Junior Consultants
Bernardo Mottironi is a PHD student at London School of Economics and Political Science.
Laura Lufray is a Master Student at University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
Alessandro Zona Mattioli is a student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Laura Lehtonen is a Master Student Graduate from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Sara Azzarito is a Master Graduate at University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
Ottavia Papagalli is a trainee at the ECB.
Giovanni Brocca is a Master Student at University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
Daniele Aglio is a PhD student at Koç University, Turkey.
Anmol Kaur Grewal is a PhD student at Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.
Laonardo Indraccolo is a PhD student at European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Neeharika Kakunuri is a PhD student at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Marcelo Piemonte Ribeiro is a PhD student at Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.