Professor Bruce Lyons 
Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at UEA and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy. His research interests include: economics of competition policy; mergers; state aid; and contracts between firms. He was formerly Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition (to the European Commission) and was previously a part-time Member of the UK Competition Commission (2002-11). His comments on this blog are entirely personal and should not be taken to represent the views of either Commission. He recently edited a book of Cases in European Competition Policy: the Economic Analysis published by Cambridge University Press.
Dr Andreas Stephan 
Andreas Stephan is a Lecturer in the UEA Law School and has a background in both Law and Economics. He primarily researches all aspects of cartel enforcement, including: powers of investigation; leniency programmes; the calculation of fines and the danger of bankruptcy; systems of direct settlement; particular challenges faced by developing countries in adopting competition laws; and enforcement against international cartels by multiple jurisdictions. Andreas has a particular interest in criminalisation, having written on the UK cartel offence introduced by the Enterprise Act 2002. His work has been quoted in an Australian Senate Standing Committee Report on the criminalisation of cartel behaviour. Andreas has also undertaken empirical research into the European Leniency Programme and designed a public survey gauging British attitudes to price fixing and cartel enforcement – the only study of its kind.
