Frank Wolak, Stanford University:
How Do Firms Exercise Market Power? Evidence from a Multi-Unit Auction Market
Frank
A. Wolak is Professor at the Department of Economics at Stanford
University and a Research Affiliate with the Program on Energy and
Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University. His fields of
specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His
recent work studies methods for introducing competition into various
infrastructure industries: telecommunications, electricity, water
delivery and postal delivery services. His work includes assessing the
impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare.
The
DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation,
Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied
microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues.