My research interests include political economy, industrial organization, and microeconomics and applications of game theory and contract theory more generally.
Working Papers/Work in Progress
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“Does Cost Uncertainty in the Bertrand Model Soften Competition?”, mimeo, University of Copenhagen. Abstract and paper here.
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“Discrimination in a Strategic World”. Presented in November and December 2011 at IFN (Stockholm), Aarhus, and a CIE workshop (Gilleleje, Denmark). Paper not yet available.
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“Does Technology Matter More Than Market Power? Bertrand versus Cournot”.
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Published or Forthcoming in Refereed Journals
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“The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”. Joint with Andrew Seltzer. Journal of Economic Education 40(2) (2009): 115-137 (lead article). Featured in the Times Higher Education Supplement, April 14, 2006, p. 7; and in The Times, April 18, 2006. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Eliciting Demand Information through Cheap Talk: An Argument in Favor of a Ban on Price Discrimination”. Joint with Lars Frisell. Economics Letters 99(3) (2008): 421-424 (lead article). Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Insisting on a Non-Negative Price: Oligopoly, Uncertainty, Welfare, and Multiple Equilibria,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 25 (2007): 861-875. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“A Theory of Rent Seeking with Informational Foundations,” Economics of Governance 8 (2007): 197-218. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“A Model of Reputation in Cheap Talk.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 109 (2007): 49-70. Joint with Lars Frisell. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Equilibrium Uniqueness in a Cournot Model with Demand Uncertainty,” Topics in Theoretical Economics: 6 (2006): No. 1, Article 19. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“On the Desirability of an Efficiency Defense in Merger Control,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 23 (2005): 803-827. Joint with Paul Heidhues. Featured in Competition Law Insight, Issue 6, May 2003, pp. 25-26. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Are We Better Off if Our Politicians Have More Information?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (2004): 123-142. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma,” Economic Journal 114 (2004): 55-68. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf)
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“Hiding Information in Electoral Competition,” Games and Economic Behavior 42 (2003): 48-74. Joint with Paul Heidhues. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Policy-Motivated Candidates, Noisy Platforms, and Non-Robustness,” Public Choice 114 (2003): 319-347. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf)
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“Costly Information Acquisition and Delegation to a ‘Liberal’ Central Banker,” Economics & Politics 13 (2001): 221-236 (lead article). Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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“Lobbying, Information, and Private and Social Welfare,” European Journal of Political Economy 13 (1997): 615-637. Abstract (html). Paper (pdf).
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Other Publications
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“Essays on Political Economy, Information, and Welfare,” Ph.D. Thesis, Stockholm School of Economics, 1997 (defended in January 1998). Click here to see a picture of the thesis.
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“Das Dilemma der Lobbyisten,” WZB Mitteilungen, Issue 83, March 1999, pp. 37-39.
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’Fusionen und Lobbying: Das Für und Wider einer „Effizienzverteidigung“,’ WZB Mitteilungen, Issue 98, December 2002, pp. 18-21. (Link to that whole issue of the WZB Mitteilungen: here; to my article only: here.)
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„Fusionskontrolle und Anreize zum Lobbying,“ Wirtschaftsdienst, 83. Jahrgang, Heft 2, Februar 2003, pp. 121-124. Joint with Paul Heidhues.
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“Do Remedial Mathematics Courses Help Economics Students?”. VoxEU column, August 9, 2008. Joint with Andrew J. Seltzer. Available here.
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Johan N. M. Lagerlöf and Andrew J. Seltzer (2011), “Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics”. Forthcoming in Norbert M. Seel (ed), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer.
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