Jens Prüfer is Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Professor of Economics, Governance, and Technology at Tilburg University, Professor in Economics at the University of East Anglia, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). His research focuses on institutional and organizational questions, applying economic methodology to a broad set of disciplines, including law, management, political science, history, religious studies, and computer science. He studied Economics and Chinese studies in Tübingen (Germany) and Singapore and holds a PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. Jens Prüfer is a member of the expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. He is the editor of sioe.org, the website of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, where he also regularly blogs, and a Mercator Fellow at the University of Passau (“Digital Platform Ecosystems”) and Principal Investigator of EU Horizon project “Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Regulators and Policy Makers” (AI4POL; 2025-27), where he particularly studies “AI in Autocratic Countries.” He was a member of the expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.

In the academic year 2025/26, I teach Digital Economics in the Research Master/PhD in Economics program and Microeconomics for EOR in the Econometrics and Operations Research program at Tilburg University.

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