Jonas Häckner, Professor
+46-8-163049
Short presentation
I received my PhD in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993. My main research areas are competition policy and industrial economics. I was employed by Stockholm University in 1995 and have teaching experience from all levels. I am also the Director of Graduate Studies.
Research interests
- Microeconomics
- Industrial Economics
- Competition Policy
Current teaching
- Introductory Microeconomics (undergraduate level)
- Law & Economics (advanced level)
Working papers
"When do Countries
Introduce Competition Policy?", Working Papers in Economics 2005:6, Department
of Economics, Stockholm University, with Rikard Forslid and Astri Muren.
"Trademark Dilution -
A Welfare Analysis", Working Papers in Economics 2004:15, Department of Economics,
Stockholm University, with Astri Muren.
"Mergers in Congested
Markets", Working Papers in Economics 2004:8, Department of Economics, Stockholm
University, with Carlos Razo.
Selected publications
"Advertising and Media Market Concentration",
Journal of Media Economics, 21:2, (2008), 79-96, with Sten Nyberg.
"Vertical Integration and Competition Policy",
Journal of Regulatory Economics, 24:2, (2003), 213-222.
"Market Delineation and Product Differentiation",
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 1:1, (2001), 81-99.
Tillämpad mikroekonomi, (Jointly edited by Martin Dufwenberg, Marie-Louice
Isacson and Michael Lundholm). Studentlitteratur (2000). [This is a textbook for
first-year economics students.]
"A Note on Price and Quantity Competition in Differentiated Oligopolies",
Journal of Economic Theory, 93, (2000), 233-239.
"Rent-Control and Prices of Owner Occupied Housing",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 102, (2000), 311-324, with Sten Nyberg.
"Vanity and Congestion; A Study of Reciprocal Externalities",
Economica, 63, (1996), 97-111, with Sten Nyberg.
"Optimal Symmetric Punishments in a Bertrand Differentiated Products Duopoly",
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 14, (1996), 611-630.
"Deregulating Taxi Services; a Word of Caution", Journal of Transport Economics
and Policy, (1995), 195-207, with Sten Nyberg.
"Endogenous Product Design in an Infinitely Repeated Game",
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 13, (1995), 277-299.
"Collusive Pricing in Markets for Vertically Differentiated Products",
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 12, (1994), 155-177.