Silvia Sonderegger

Welcome to my home page. On this page you will find details of my teaching and research. Here are my contact details:

Room 3B6
Economics Department
University of Bristol
8 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TN
(UK)

Tel: (+44) (0)117 9289039
Email: s.sonderegger@bristol.ac.uk



Short Bio

I am a lecturer in the department of Economics at the University of Bristol. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Market and Public Organization (CMPO). I have obtained my PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2004.

Teaching

I am currently teaching and/or I have taught the following units: Intermediate Microeconomics (u/g second year), Industrial Economics (u/g final year), Incentives in Organizations (u/g final year), MSc Microeconomics, MSc Industrial Economics, MSc Personnel Economics. For students enrolled on these units, further information is available on BlackBoard.

Research

Below is a list of my completed papers and work in progress.

·         Governance Reform in Legal Service Markets with Paul Grout and Ian Jewitt (2007), Economic Journal, 117 (519).  

·         Simple Money-Based Tests for Choosing Between Private and Public Delivery: A Discussion of the Issues with Paul Grout (2006) Review of Industrial Organization, 29 (1).

·         Market Segmetation with Nonlinear Pricing. Forthcoming in the Journal of Industrial Economics.

·         The Role of the Agent's Outside Options in Principal-Agent Relationships joint with Imran Rasul. Forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.

·         Centralized or Decentralized Information: Which is Better for Providing Incentives? forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.

·         The Costs and Benefits of "Strangers" joint with Paul Grout and Sebastien Mitraille. (Previous title: Cohesion and Self-bias in Communities.)

·          The Role of Financial Intermediaries in Securities Issues: A Theoretical Analysis joint with Fabrizio Adriani and Luca Deidda. Revise and resubmit to the Review of Finance.

·         An Economic Theory of the Glass Ceiling joint with Paul Grout and In-Uck Park.

·         Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory joint with Fabrizio Adriani (2009). Journal of Public Economics 93 (11/12).

·         Trust, Introspection and Market Participation: An Evolutionary Approach, joint with Fabrizio Adriani.

Work in progress

·         Setting the right example: A signaling Theory of Parental Behavior, joint with Fabrizio Adriani.

·         Signaling Motives and Terrorist Attacks joint with Fabrizio Adriani.

·         Universities as Certifiers, joint with In-Uck Park.

·         The Evolution of Trust and Fairness: a Theoretical Analysis joint with Fabrizio Adriani.

Book chapters

·         The Quest For Cartels joint with Paul Grout, in W. D. Collins (ed.) Issues in Competition Law and Policy, American Bar Association.

·         Structural Approaches to Cartel Detection with Paul Grout, in C.-D. Ehlermann and I. Atanasiu (eds.) European Competition Annual 2006: Enforcement of Prohibition of Cartels, Hart Publishings, Oxford/Portland.  

Other

·         Predicting Cartels joint with Paul Grout (2005), OFT Research Paper 773: Office of Fair Trading.