Department of Economics

Lars Sørgard

E-mail:	Lars.Sorgard@nhh.no
Telephone:	+47 55 959 723
Fax:	+47 55 959 543
Title:	Professor, dr. oecon
Nationality:	Norwegian Hjemmeside Konkurransestrategi 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:	'Making sense of market delineation with the aggregate diversion ratio', (co-authors: Øystein Daljord and Øyvind Thomassen). 'Two part pricing, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition’, (co-author: Sissel Jensen). 'Domestic regulation and international trade', (co-authors: Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind). 'Private label entry as a competitive force? An analysis of price responses in the Norwegian food sector', (co-authors: Tommy S. Gabrielsen and Frode Steen). 'The media financing paradox', (co-authors: Hans Jarle Kind and Tore Nilssen). 'Who are the advertisers?’, (co-author: Tore Nilssen). 'Contracting versus Bypassing’, (co-author: Tommy S. Gabrielsen)

Selected publications:	'Managerial incentives and access price regulation', European Journal of law and Economics, forthcoming. (co-authors: Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind). 'Competition for viewers and advertisers in a TV oligopoly', Journal of Media Economics, forthcoming. (co-authors: Hans Jarle Kind and Tore Nilssen) 'Public versus private health care in a national health service'. Health Economics, 16 , 2007, 579-601 (Co-author: Kurt R. Brekke). '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.) "A Consumer as an Entrant in the Norwegian Cement Market, The Journal of Industrial Economics, 41, 1993, 191-204.

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