Industrial Policy for National Champions

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Initial versions of the contributions collected in this volume were first presented at the conference on “Do We Need National or European Champions?” at CESifo in Munich, Germany, in November 2007. The conference was part of the project “How to Construct Europe,” funded by the German Leibniz Association, whose support we gratefully acknowledge. The included papers are a peer-reviewed selection from the set of papers presented at the conference. We hope that the volume documents a fruitful example of building bridges, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. Our thanks go to all contributors for sharing their research results with an international audience. We would like to particularly thank the conference discussants, whose expertise helped substantially in improving the drafts: Cécile Aubert, Werner Boente, Adriaan Dierx, Tobias Kretschmer, Valerie Rabassa, Régis Renault, Michele Ruta, and Monika Schnitzer. The work by numerous anonymous referees who lent further support to the selection and improvement of the papers in this volume is also gratefully acknowledged. Our additional thanks for support during the finalization of the book project go to Pia Unte as well as John Covell, Dana Andrus, and Emily Taber from the MIT Press. Finally, we would like to thank the CESifo support staff, most notably Deirdre Weber, who ensured that the conference was a wonderful event. ...