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DR SIMON LOERTSCHER



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Organization: Economics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=497
Work: 03 8344 5364
Fax: 03 8344 6899
Room: 605
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Simon Loertscher has received his Doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2004-5 and a Lecturer at the University of Bern in 2005-6 before joining the Economics Department of the University of Melbourne in 2007. His dissertation deals with Industrial Organization Models of intermediation and market microstructure. His other fields of interest are Mechanism Design and Political Economics.

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
German Speak, Read & Write
French Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
PhD (Doctorate) in Economics University of Berne 17-Dec-2004
Master in Economics (lic.rer.pol.) University of Berne 20-Sep-1999

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Econometric Society Member 01-Jan-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Global and local players in a model of spatial competition
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Economics Letters
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 100-106
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  • Learning, public good provision, and the information trap
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Public Economics
    Volume: 92
    Issue: 5-6
    Page numbers: 998 - 1010
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  • Market Making Oligopoly
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Industrial Economics
    Volume: LVI
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 263-289
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  • On Cheating, Doping and Whistleblowing
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Political Economy
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 415 - 436
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  • Vertical mergers that eliminate double markups are procompetitive
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Economics Bulletin
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 1 - 6
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Reports

  • Dynamic Location Games
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1042
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Horizontally Differentiated Market Makers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 793-825
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Reports

  • False Alarm? Terror Alerts and Reelection
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 995
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 996
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • When is Seller Price Setting with Linear Fees Optimal for Intermediaries?
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1014
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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