Justus Haucap

[3] In 2015, Haucap was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize for his contributions to competition policy in Germany.

In 2003, Haucap habilitated at the Helmut Schmidt University with a thesis on the application of economic policy to competition, regulation and institutions.

[5] Haucap's research focuses on competition and antitrust as well as the regulation of network industries and the digital economy.

Key findings of his research include: In 2022, news media reported critically about payments made by Uber to prominent academics and highlighted Haucap's role.

Haucap had agreed to produce a study on “consumer benefits from a liberalisation of the German taxi market”, in collaboration with a consultancy arm of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), for what a news leak suggested was a fee of €48,000 plus VAT.