Competition Economist, Entrepreneur & Litigation Expert
Shaping the future of private antitrust
enforcement in Europe. The innovative way.

This is me
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Accelerator of Private Antitrust Enforcement in Europe for over a decade
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Innovator in technical solutions for data collection and damage quantification
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Researcher in empirical industrial organization
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Trainer in damage quantification
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Investor in scale-up companies
Claims Assessment Economic Analysis
Data & Evidence Collection
Collective Actions Team Management
Market Analysis Econometrics Legal Tech

Advising on economic aspects of antitrust litigation
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Project management in high-stakes litigation and out-of-court settlements in some of Europe's largest cartel cases
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First-hand experience in guiding and supporting victims of antitrust violations from the ground up, building damage claims that can withstand litigation scrutiny
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Leadership in large projects in data and evidence collection and gathering of market know-how, transforming vast and granular real-world data into actionable intelligence and economic evidence.
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Management of damage quantifications from preliminary back-of-the-envelope to elaborating economic theories of harm paired with data-rich econometric analysis
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Partner and Head of Economics at CDC Consulting in Brussels, disruptive pioneers and thought-leaders in the field in Europe
Teaching &
Publications
Teaching
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2017 - 2019 Master Class in Damage Quantification and Private Antitrust Enforcement at the Trento Summer School on Advanced EU Competition Law & Economics.
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2017 Case Studies in Damage Quantification for the EU training programme for national judges in EU Competition Law
Publications
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Schinkel, M.P. , Tuinstra, J. & Rüggeberg, J. (2008), “Illinois Walls: how barring indirect purchaser suits facilitates collusion”, The RAND Journal of Economics, 39: 683-698.
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Rüggeberg, J. (2018) “Private enforcement of EU competition law and obstacles on the path towards true compensation”, in Derecho europeo de compensación de los daños causados por los carteles y por los abusos de posición de dominio de acuerdo con la directiva 2014/104/UE, Ruiz Peris, J.I. (ed.)
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Rüggeberg, J. & Schinkel, M.P., (2006), “Consolidating Antitrust Damages in Europe: A Proposal for Standing in Line with Efficient Private Enforcement“, Vol. 29, World Competition, Issue 3, pp. 395-420