Lukáš has been awarded a scholarship $10,000.00 to fund his research in Washington, D.C. for a period of three months. From April this year, he will be a visiting researcher with William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at George Washington University. Lukáš’ research in the U.S. will focus on the Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division as government agencies with discretionary authority in enforcing the American antitrust laws.
Lukáš Tóth is an alumnus (2012) of the TI MPhil program and currently working as a TI PhD student candidate at the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) of the University of Amsterdam, supervised by TI fellows professor Jan Tuinstra and professor Maarten Pieter Schinkel. His research project is entitled ‘Decision-Making Procedures in Competition Authorities and Optimal Institutional Design’. Lukáš’ recent working paper Discretionary Authority and Prioritizing in Government Agencies, is available at SSRN.