Competition specialists meeting at Beccle conference
Professor of law and competition expert Pinar Akman delivered the first keynote speech at the annual BECCLE conference on competition policy.
Professor Lars Sørgard
- Lars.Sorgard@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 97 23
- Department
- Economics
- Office
- E235
- Expertise
- Competition Economics Industrial Organization Competition Policy
BIOGRAPHY
Lars Sørgard is Professor at the Department of Economics at Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway (since 1998). He served a six years term as the Director General at the Norwegian Competition Authority (2016-22), and he has also been the chief economist at the Norwegian Competition Authority (2004-07 and 2015).
His main research and teaching has been in the areas industrial organization, competitive strategy and competition policy. His teaching has been in courses such as industrial organization, competitive strategy and competition policy on both undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. He has published in journals such as RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Marketing Science, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy and Marketing Science.
He has been Research Director at Centre for Industrial Organization and Economic Policy at SNF 2000-2002, and he was one of the founders of BECCLE – Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics in 2011. He was the chair of the board at SNF 2013-15, and he was a member of the board of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway 2014-16.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Clougherty, Joseph A.; Gugler, Klaus; Sørgard, Lars; Szücs, Florian W | Cross-border mergers and domestic-firm wages: Integrating "spillover effects" and "bargaining effects" | Journal of International Business Studies Volume 45 (4); page 450 - 470; 2014 |
| Sørgard, Lars | OPTIMAL MERGER POLICY: ENFORCEMENT VS. DETERRENCE | The Journal of Industrial Economics Volume 57 (3); page 438 - 456; 2009 |
| Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars | Business Models for Media Firms: Does Competition Matter for How They Raise Revenue? | Marketing science Volume 28 (6); page 1112 - 1128; 2009 |
| Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sørgard, Lars; Straume, Odd Rune | National versus international mergers in unionized oligopoly | RAND Journal of Economics Volume 37 (1); page 212 - 234; 2006 |
| Cosnita-Langlais, Andreea; Johansen, Bjørn Olav; Sørgard, Lars | Upward pricing pressure in two-sided markets: Incorporating rebalancing effects | International Journal of Industrial Organization Volume 74 (11 pages); 2021 |
| Brekke, Kurt Richard; Sørgard, Lars; Tveito, Andreas | Effekter av konkurransereglene for norske forbrukere : | Samfunnsøkonomen Volume 133 (1); page 28 - 42; 2019 |
| Cosnita-Langlais, Andreea; Sørgard, Lars | Enforcement and deterrence in merger control: The case of merger remedies | Review of Law & Economics; 2017 |
| Pires, Armando; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars | The effects of strategic news sources on media coverage. | Information Economics and Policy Volume 41; page 28 - 35; 2017 |
Dissemination
Predicts lower pay for Norwegian flight crews
International mergers reduce the influence of trade unions and lead to lower pay for crew, according to new research. Norwegian flight crews are facing tougher times, according to Professor Lars Sørgard.
Bergen Centre for Competition Law and Economics opened
The Bergen Centre for Competition Law and Economics opened in 2011. Legal scholars and economists from the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) have worked together in a unique research collaboration on competition policy.
Trying to smash cartels
'When a company is in the danger zone and there is a risk that the authorities will expose cartel activities, the lawyers turn up with an application form for leniency. There are lawyers who fly all over the world to save companies from huge fines and directors from prison sentences. As soon as they smell trouble for a company, they get in touch with the competition authorities so that they can apply for amnesty from prosecution.'
Big mergers must be dropped
A lot has gone wrong in the Greek economy in the last year - including in the air. Earlier this year, the EU Commission blocked the proposed merger between Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines. The reason given was that the merger might lead to the creation of a 'quasi-monopoly'. This will be one of the topics for discussion at the Annual Conference of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) on 17 and 18 November.