Lars Sørgard

E-mail:

Lars.Sorgard@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959 723

Fax:

+47 55 959 543

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon

Nationality:

Norwegian
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Personal home page

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:
Master:

International economics, Competitive strategy
Industrial organisation

Research:

Industrial organisation, Competition policy

Work in progress:

• 'News sources and media bias' (co-authors: Hans J. Kind and Armando J. G. Pires).
• 'Price coordination in two-sided markets: Competition in the TV industry' (co-authors: Tore Nilssen and Hans Jarle Kind).
• 'Enforcement with heterogenous cartels', (co-author: Sissel Jensen).
• 'Competition between content distributors in two-sided markets' (co-authors: H.N. Bergh, H.J. Kind and B.A. Reme).
• 'Cross-border mergers and domestic wages: integrating positive 'spillover' effects and negative bargaining effects' (co-authors: J. Clougherty and K. Gugler).

Selected publications:

• 'Rethinking minority share ownership and interlocking directorships - the scope for competition law intervention', European Law Review, forthcoming (co-authors: T.S. Gabrielsen and E. Hjelmeng).
• 'Electricity production in a hydro system with a reservoir constraint', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (co-authors: L. Mathiesen and J. Skaar).
• 'Merger simulations with diversion ratios’, International Review of Law and Economics, 2011, 31, 83-91 (co-authors: L. Mathiesen and Ø. A. Nilsen).
• 'Single-Product versus Uniform SSNIPs', International Review of Law and Economics, 2011, 31, 142-146 (co-author: Ø. Daljord).
• "Semicollusion", Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics: Vol. 5: No 3 (2009) pp 153-228. Purchase or download (Co-author: Frode Steen).
• 'Optimal merger policy: Enforcement vs. deterrence’ , Journal of Industrial Economics, 2009, 57, 438-456. 
• 'Business models for media firms: Does competition matter for how they raise revenue?’ Marketing Science, 2009, 28, 1112-1128.  (Co-authors: H. J. Kind and T. Nilssen).
• 'Domestic regulation and international trade', Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2009, 9, 1-16 (co-authors: Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind).
• 'The SSNIP test and market definition with the aggregate diversion ratio: A reply to Katz and Shapiro', Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2008, 4(2), 263-270. (co-authors: Øystein Daljord and Øyvind Thomassen) 
• 'Competition for viewers and advertisers in a TV oligopoly', Journal of Media Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 211-233. (co-authors: Hans Jarle Kind and Tore Nilssen)
• 'Competition and welfare: The Norwegian experience’, The Norwegian Competition Authority, Bergen, 2006.
• 'Private labels, price rivalry, and public policy'. European Economic Review, 51, 2007, 403-424. (Co-author: Tommy S. Gabrielsen).
• 'The Economics of National Champions', European Competition Journal, 2007, 3(1), 49-61.
• 'Temporary Bottlenecks, Hydropower and Acquisitons',Scandinavian Journal of Economics , 2006, 108, 481-497. (Co-author: Jostein Skaar).
• "National versus International Mergers in Unionised Oligopoly", Rand Journal of Economics, 2006, 37 (1), 212-233. (Co-authors: Kjell Erik Lommerud and Odd Rune Straume).
• "Unionized Oligopoly, Trade Liberalization and Location Choice", Economic Journal,  113, 2003, 782-800  (co-authors: Kjell Erik Lommerud and Frode Meland).
• "Trade liberalization and cartel stability", Review of International Economics, 2001, 9(2). 343-355, (Co-author: Kjell Erik Lommerud).
• "Semicollusion in the Norwegian cement market", European Economic Review, 1999, 43, 1775-1796.  (Co-author:  Frode Steen).
• "Time Schedule and Programme Profile: TV News in Norway and Denmark", Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 7, 1998, 209-235. (Co-author Tore Nilssen).
• "Sequential Horizontal Mergers", European Economic Review, 42, 1998, 1683-1702. (Co-author:  Tore Nilssen.)