Competition Policy and Power Research Fund
Call for proposals (CLOSED)
Competition Policy and Power Research (CPPR) Fund Grantees
We are happy to announce that the applications below were selected as part of this inaugural call for proposals.
We received an impressive total of 113 applications from different parts of the world, with a total requested amount of 5.5 million USD. While we would love to be able to fund more proposals, due to our limited amount of funds, we were only able to award funding to 9 proposals.
With the selected grantees, the CPPR fund aims to promote research that will help combat excessive market power by bridging gaps in current knowledge and supporting practical advances and innovations in the use of competition and anti-trust tools.
Congratulations to all the selected applicants!
| Applicant | Research proposal | |
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| Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Artificial Intelligence Skills and Market Concentration | |
| Observatoire du Politique en Afrique (OPA/AYEN) | Essai sur la régulation du marché des Services Mobile Money (MM) dans l’espace CEMAC : une étude à partir du Cameroun | |
| International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | An Agile Algorithmic Tool for Taming the Complexity of Ecosystem Mergers (TOTEM) | |
| Observatorio de Responsabildiad Social Corporativa | Oligopolio en el sector bancario: risgos económicos y sociales. Propuesta de fomento de la competencia. | |
| Fundação Getulio Vargas Direito SP | Market Power, Global Supply Chains and Sustainability | |
| Common Wealth | Market Power as a Macroeconomic Problem: Making the case for a new macrostablisation toolkit | |
| Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (University of Johannesburg) | Expanding enforcement in challenging environments: using market inquiries to tackle concentration and abuse in agri-food markets in the global south | |
| Centro de Estudios Populares(CEESP) | Sembrando desigualdad, cosechando poder: una investigación sobre el poder oligopólico en el sector agroindustrial y financiero boliviano | |
| Luiza Kharmandayan | Competition in the Brazilian Food Sector |
Read the full Call for Proposals (French and Spanish versions available below)
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Call for proposals – Competition Policy and Power Research Fund (pdf, 170.22 KB)
Applications from all countries and regions are welcome, and we will seek to award research grants to a broad diversity of applicants.
Grant awards will be up to a maximum of USD 60,000, although we do not expect all proposals to reach this amount. We encourage proposals that seek smaller amounts of funding for specific research initiatives.
All applications should be submitted by 30 April to competitionfund@somo.nl. The application form can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. We encourage applicants to follow word lengths for each section strictly. All successful applicants will be invited to present their research at an international conference to be held in 2025.
Selection criteria
We will prioritize proposals which meet the following criteria:
- Clarity on how the research will advance policy reform and/or regulatory enforcement and/or advance the anti-monopoly agenda.
- Innovative, novel approaches to addressing monopoly power.
- Interdisciplinary, multi-country research team.
- A clear plan for how the research will reach relevant stakeholders.
- Proposals that include roles for and build the capacity of early career researchers.
Steering Committee
The Competition Policy and Power Research Fund is hosted by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and overseen by a Steering Committee comprising:
| Audrey Gaughran, Executive Director, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations | Michelle Meagher, competition law specialist and Founder of the Balanced Economy Project | |
| Professor Thando Vilakazi, Director, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg | Maria Luisa Stasi, Head of Law and Policy for digital markets at ARTICLE 19 | |
| Helena Malikova, Fellow at Hertie School | Professor Simon Roberts, School of Economics, University of Johannesburg | |
| Professor Nicolo Zingales, School of Law, Fundação Getulio Vargas Rio de Janeiro | Elizabeth Frantz and Vera Franz of Open Society Foundations act as advisors to the Steering Committee. |
Adjudicating panel members
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Dr. Andrew McLean
Edinburgh University, UK -
Dr. Anna Rita Bennato
Loughborough University, UK -
Dr. Ben Wood
Deakin University, Australia -
Professor Giorgio Monti
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Netherlands -
Professor Ioannis Lianos
University College London, UK -
Professor Juan David Gutiérrez
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia -
Dr. Kati Cseres
Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, Netherlands -
Dr. Maria Fernanda Viecens
Center for Technology and Society Studies (CETyS), Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina -
Professor Thomas Cheng
University of Hong Kong -
Vanessa Turner
Senior Advisor, Competition, BEUC (The European Consumer Organisation) -
Ms Yasmin Carrim
Acting Judge, High Court of South Africa, former member Competition Tribunal of South Africa
Apply now!
Are you interested in applying? Please make sure to read the full call for proposals for the criteria and download the application form below to submit your application.
All applications should be submitted by 30 April to competitionfund@somo.nl.
This call for proposals is supported by the Open Society Foundations.
FAQs
We update the FAQs weekly, please see if your question(s) is already answered below.
If you have any further questions on the call, please send them to competitionfund@somo.nl.
Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
All applicants will be asked to complete a disclosure form notifying the Competition Policy and Power Research Fund about relationships with the Fund and/or individuals on the Adjudicating Panel.
French and Spanish applications
We accept applications in English, Spanish, and French. Call for proposals and application forms in Spanish and French are available to download below.
If you wish to submit the application in any other language, kindly get in touch with us.
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Download: Fonds de recherche sur la politique de concurrence et le pouvoir monopolistique (pdf, 145.47 KB)
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Download: Fondo de Investigación sobre la Política de Competencia y el Poder de Mercado (pdf, 168.86 KB)
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