Martin Peitz is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, Germany, a director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Regulation (MaCCI), Germany, and an academic director of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Belgium. He has widely published in leading economics journals and, with Paul de Bijl, is author of the book Regulation and Entry into Telecommunications Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His research focuses on theoretical industrial organization.