Dr. Joanna Piechucka

Market Definition and Market Power (Module 2)

Competitive Effects of (Horizontal) Mergers (Module 2)

Joanna Piechucka is Economist at the Chief Economist Team of DG COMP at the European Commission. She previously worked as Research Associate at the Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin and as an economist in a Paris-based competition economics consultancy.

As a member of the Chief Economist Team at DG COMP, Joanna provides guidance on methodological issues of economics and econometrics in the application of EU competition rules. She has experience in the context of complex merger, antitrust and State aid cases. She also contributes to the evaluation and the development of competition policy instruments.

Joanna holds a Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics. In her research, Joanna focuses on the empirical assessment of competition policy, including merger control. Her work has been published in leading journals including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, or the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.