Research fellows

Matilda Orth

Ph.D.

Research interests: Industrial organization and applied microeconomics.

Among the questions that Matilda Orth tries to answer with her research:

  • What mechanisms determine the degree of product differentiation, strategic entry decisions and changes in market structure in retail trade?
  • How can structural models be used to estimate productivity in retail markets?
  • What is the role of entry regulations for profitability, productivity and market structure in retail trade?
  • How does entry of large (”big-box”) stores affect productivity and exit of incumbents?

 

New research

A Dynamic Analysis of Regulation and Productivity in Retail Trade Florin Maican and Matilda Orth

 

Research papers

Entry Regulations, Product Differentiation and Determinants of Market Structure (with Florin Maican) May 2013 PDF

Entry and Spatial Differentiation in Retail Markets PDF

Productivity Dynamics and the Role of "Big-Box" Entrants in Retailing (with Florin Maican) Sept. 2012 PDF - New version coming soon!

A Dynamic Analysis of Regulation and Productivity in Retail Trade (with Florin Maican) Jan. 2013 PDF Appendix

 

Publications (pre-Ph.D.)

Who Visits the Museums? A Comparison Between Stated Preferences and Observed Effects of Entrance Fees, Kyklos 62(1), 85-102, 2009 (with E. Lampi) Link

Opening Local Retail Food Stores: A Real Options Approach, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 10(3), 373-387, 2010 (with SO. Daunfeldt and N. Rudholm)

 

Publications and reports in Swedish

Marknadsstruktur och Dynamik i Dagligvaruhandeln (The Dynamics of Market Structure in Retail) Ekonomisk Debatt, No. 1, 2012 (with Florin Maican) PDF

Finns det en Wal-Mart effekt utan Wal-Mart (Is there a Wal-Mart effect without Wal-Mart?) Popular science report to Handelns Utvecklingsråd, 2009 (with Florin Maican) PDF

Vem konkurrerar med vem på flygmarknaden? En studie av flygmarknadens segment (Product Competition in the Airline Industry) Consultant report to the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority, 2008 (with Florin Maican) PDF

Tjugo års utredande av höga matpriser och otillfredsställande kvalitet: Vad har man egentligen kommit fram till? (Twenty years of investigaing high retail-food prices and unsatisfied quality: what are the actual results?) Consultant report to the Swedish Competition Authority, 2004

Matilda Orth

Contact

Ph: +46 8 665 45 31
Mob: +46 73 642 3824
matilda.orth@ifn.se

Introduction

Matilda Orth has a Ph.D. in economics and her research interests are industrial organization and applied microeconomics. She addresses topics related to industry dynamics and determinants of market structure such as productivity, strategic product positioning, entry and exit. Her research has a strong link to both competition and business policy.

 

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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, is a private and independent foundation devoted to pursuing highly relevant research for trade and industry.

The researchers at IFN are united in their belief that economic methods offer a powerful tool for understanding society.

The main research programmes are:

  1. economics of entrepreneurship
  2. globalization and corporate restructuring
  3. economics of the service sector
  4. economics of the electricity markets.

Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

 

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The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and VINNOVA are the principals of the award.

Professor Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the 2013 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.

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