The AdC Competition Policy Award aims to enhance scientific research in competition economics and law.
The Adc aims to distinguish academic works that are relevant to the application of competition law and economics at national level.
The 2025 edition is open to academic papers in the field of competition law.
Selection Committee of the 2025 edition:
Nuno Cunha Rodrigues - AdC Executive Board President - Selection Committee President;
Frédéric Jenny, Chair, Global Forum on Competition, OECD;
Johannes Laitenberger, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union;
Miguel Moura e Silva, Member of the Board of the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC);
Pinar Akman, University of Leed School of Law;
Richard Whish, King's College London; and
Sofia Pais, Universidade Católica Portuguesa;
Acess the rules of procedure and the application form.
Applications must be submitted by August 29, 2025 to the following email adress: premioadc@concorrencia.pt
Previous editions of the AdC Competition Policy Award
The Selection Committee awarded the AdC Competition Policy Award 2024 to Volker Nocke, Professor of Economics at the University of Manheim, and Andrew Rhodes, Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and Research Fellow at the CEPR, for the paper entitled “Optimal Merger Remedies”
The 2024 edition was open to academic papers in the field of Competition Economics.
Selection Committee:
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Nuno Cunha Rodrigues – AdC Executive Board President – Selection Committee President;
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Ana Sofia Rodrigues, AdC Executive Board Member;
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Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management;
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Luís Cabral, NYU Stern;
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Massimo Motta, Barcelona GSE;
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Patrick Rey, Toulose School of Economics; and
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Pedro Pita Barros, Nova School of Business and Economics.
The Selection Committee awarded the AdC Competition Policy Award 2023 to María Mufdi Guerra, for the paper entitled "Challenges to the Enforcement of Predatory Pricing Practices in Online Marketplaces".
The 2023 edition was open to academic papers in the field of Competition Law.
Selection Committee
- Nuno Cunha Rodrigues – AdC Executive Board President – Selection Committee President
- Frédéric Jenny - OECD
- Johannes Laitenberger - Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Kati Cseres - Amsterdam Centre for European Law & Governance
- Miguel Moura e Silva - AdC Executive Board Member
- Pinar Akman - University of Leeds School of Law
- Richard Whish - King’s College London
The selection committee awarded the AdC Competition Policy Award to Bruno Pellegrino, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, for the paper entitled "Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: a Network Approach".
The 2022 edition was open to academic papers in the field of Competition Economics.
Selection committee
Margarida Matos Rosa, Autoridade da Concorrência
Luís Cabral, NYU Stern
Massimo Motta, Barcelona GSE
Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics
Pedro Pita Barros, Nova School of Business and Economics
Shifting the Digital Paradigm: Towards a Sui Generis Competition Policy, by Oles Andriychuk.
Selection committee
Miguel Moura e Silva (member of the Board of the AdC)
Frédéric Jenny (OECD)
Johannes Laitenberger (EU General Court)
Richard Whish (King’s College London)
Sofia Oliveira Pais (Católica Faculdade de Direito Escola do Porto)
Kati Cseres (ACELG)
Lisa Lovdahl Gormsen (BIICL)
“Killer Acquisitions” by Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer and Song Ma.
Selection Committee
Margarida Matos Rosa (President of the AdC)
Luís Cabral (NYU Stern)
Massimo Motta (Barcelona GSE)
Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)
Pedro Pita Barros (Nova School of Business and Economics)
“Regulating online platforms: lessons from 100 years of telecommunications regulation”, by Friso Bostoen
Selection Committee
Maria João Melícias (member of the Board of the AdC)
Eleanor Fox (New York University School of Law)
Frédéric Jenny (OCDE)
Johannes Laitenberger (EU General Court)
José Luís da Cruz Vilaça (CV Advogados, former Court of Justice of the European Union)
Richard Whish (King’s College London)
Sofia Oliveira Pais (UCP)
“Pay-for-Delay with Settlement Externalities”, by Emil Palikot and Matias Pietola
Selection Committee
Margarida Matos Rosa (President of the AdC)
Luís Cabral (NYU Stern School of Business)
Massimo Motta (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)
Pedro Pita Barros (Nova School of Business & Economics)
Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Management)