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Focused workshops that turn market design research into working mechanisms — built with partners across academia, industry, and policy.
Each workshop takes on a concrete market design challenge and brings the right people into one room — researchers, operators, and policymakers — to move from ideas to designs that can be piloted. Here is what we've built with partners so far.
From 2026, Local Electricity Communities open a new chapter in Switzerland's electricity market. They let households, businesses, producers, and storage operators share locally produced renewable electricity through the public grid — creating opportunities for decentralised energy, lower grid costs, and more active participation in the energy transition. But they don't emerge automatically: they need sound regulation, well-designed incentives, fair and efficient pricing, and practical implementation tools. This workshop brings together experts from policy, economics, market design, automation, and industry to discuss how they can be designed and implemented in practice.
Secondary markets are the bottleneck for digital and private assets: thin order books, wide spreads, high slippage, slow time to fill, and episodic participation keep liquidity shallow. This workshop brings researchers and practitioners together to diagnose frictions, compare mechanisms (OTC, continuous trading, auctions, AMMs), and discuss practical improvements that deepen liquidity, tighten spreads, and improve execution quality.
Organised by the Center for Market Design (Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich Nax) and the UZH Blockchain Center (Mark Ballandies, Benjamin Kraner).
A good fit if you face a concrete market design challenge and want expert minds working on it with you. A typical agenda: learning the context, input from current research, mapping the design space, structured discussion, and a clear set of next steps.
Dr. Simon Jantschgi · simon.jantschgi@uzh.ch