Simon Loertscher

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Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization Mechanism Design Political Economics

Publications

Horizontally Differentiated Market Makers, Journal of Economics & Managment Strategy, Volume 16, Number 4, Winter 2007: 793-825  Market Making Oligopoly, Journal of Industrial Economics , Volume L VI, Number 2, 2008: 263-289 Global and Local Players in a Model of Spatial Competition (with G. Muehlheusser), Economics Letters, Volume 98, Number 1, 2008: 100-1006 Learning, public good provision, and the information trap (with A. Berentsen and E. Bruegger), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 92, Issues 5-6, June 2008: 998-1010  On Cheating, Doping and Whistleblowing (with A. Berentsen and E. Bruegger), European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 24, 2008: 415-436 Vertical mergers that eliminate double markups are procompetitive, Economic Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 22, 2008: 1-6 The ABC of complementary products mergers (with S. Anderson and Y. Schneider), Economics Letters (forthcoming)

Working Papers

Dynamic House Allocations (with A. Abdulkadiroglu) The Evolution of Cheating in Asymmetric Contests (with A. Berentsen and E. Bruegger) Chain Stores, Consumer Mobility, and Market Structure (with Y. Schneider) Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage (with R. Hodler and D. Rohner) Biased Experts, Costly Lies, and Binary Decisions (with R. Hodler and D. Rohner) - Paper coming soon Fee Setting Intermediaries: On Real Estate Agents, Stock Brokers, and Auction Houses This supercedes our previous paper titled 'When is Seller Price Setting with Linear Fees Optimal for Intermediaries?' (with A. Niedermayer) Information Transmission in Electoral Competition Sequential Location Games (with G. Muehlheusser)

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