CCP is emerging as the centre of independent expertise in all aspects of competition and economic regulation policy, providing academic output and a forum for debate and policy-relevant findings for governments, authorities, private practitioners and the general public. 

Together with our partner centres in the Competition Law and Economics European Network (CLEEN), CCP has been in the vanguard of extracting information from competition authority decisions.  This new wave of comparative research undertaken using empirical methods enables CCP to play to its strength as an integrated interdisciplinary centre, where economist, lawyers and political scientists all use this approach.

The Centre's current research is organised around five projects, and Centre members may carry out research on more than one project at any given time.  Similarly some themes may overlap slightly.  Four approaches characterise all of the Centre's research:

• "What purpose does it serve?"
• "What happened next?"
• To extend and exploit the databases collected
• To extend analysis from institutions to individual actors by examining the role of private enforcement

The CCP seminar series now features a session on each theme, through which members researching a given theme can provide updates of their progress and gain feedback on their work.