Regulatory Competition in the Digital Economy Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Platforms

PD Dr. Michael Denga
 completed his PhD in the field of collective IP-rights management in 2014 at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University of Berlin. There he also received his habilitation in the subjects of European and German private and business law as well as in IT- and IP law in 2022. Since then, he has been an interim professor for private and business law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He holds an LL.M. of King’s College London and a Maîtrise en Droit of Paris II (Assas). He also has been a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute and the European New School of Digital Studies. His research focus lies at the junction of corporate- and technology law, taking a special interest in the corporate governance of digital business.

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf
 completed his PhD in economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich in 2011 and subsequently received his habilitation in the field of business administration in 2019 at the University of Regensburg. Previously, he was a junior researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and a research associate at the Institute of International Law at the LMU. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Stanford Law School, Duke University, Georgetown University, the CESifo, and the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2014, he became assistant professor of law and economics in the Department of Economics of Trier University. From 2016 to 2021, he was an affiliated research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. In 2017, Lars Hornuf became a full professor of business administration, specializing in the areas of financial services and financial technology at the University of Bremen, and recently a fellow of the CESifo research network. Since spring 2023 he has been a full professor of business administration specializing in financial services and financial technology at Dresden University of Technology. He has worked on numerous projects related to financial technology, financial regulation, and data privacy. His research interests also include crowdsourcing, law and finance, and behavioral science. Media including
The Economist
and
Foreign Policy
have reported on his research findings.