Sven-Olof Fridolfsson has a PH.D in Economics and is working at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. His fields of interests are primarily industrial economics and competition policy, and he is currently working on (i) electricity markets, (ii) competition policy and cartel deterrence, and (iii) mergers & acquisitions and merger control.
Refereed Publications
Industry Concentration and Welfare – On the Use of Stock Market Evidence from Horizontal Mergers, with Johan Stennek. Economica, forthcoming. Web-Appendix
Market Power in the Nordic Electricity Wholesale Market: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence, with Thomas Tangerås. Energy Policy, 37(9), September 2009, 3681-3692.
A Consumer Surplus Defense in Merger Control. In The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek (Eds.), Elsevier, 2007, 287-302.
Hold-up of Anti-Competitive Mergers, with Johan Stennek. International Journal of Industrial Organization, December 2005, 23(9-10), 753-775.
Why Mergers Reduce Profits and Raise Share Prices – A Theory of Preemptive Mergers, with Johan Stennek. Journal of the European Economic Association, September 2005, 3(5), 1083-1104.
Other Publications, Reports
Priserna på elmarknaden måste tåla en granskning, with Thomas Tangerås. Dagens Nyheter, December 29, 2009.
Fungerar konkurrensen på elmarknaden?, with Thomas Tangerås, Ekonomisk Debatt, nr 8, 2009.
Piska bättre än morot när hushållen ska spara energi, with Thomas Tangerås. Dagens Nyheter, July 14, 2009.
Ex-Post Review of Merger Control Decisions, with Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Cristiana Vitale. Report for the DG Competition of the European Commission, 2007.
En ekonomisk analys av olika målsättningar för kontroll av företagskoncentrationer. Konkurrensverkets A4-serie, 2002. Report for the Swedish Competition Authority on the Objectives of Merger Control.
Essays on Endogenous Merger Theory, Ph. D. in Economics 2001:1, Stockholm University.
Working Papers
Fines, Leníency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment, with Maria Bigoni, Chloé Le Coq and Giancarlo Spagnolo, IFN Working Paper no 738, 2008.
Anti- versus Pro-Competitive Mergers, IFN Working Paper no 694, 2007.
Work in Progress
Why Targets Take it All, with Johan Stennek.
Risk Aversion, Prospect Theory and Strategic Risk in Law Enforcement: Evidence from an Antitrust Experiment, with Maria Bigoni, Chloé Le Coq and Giancarlo Spagnolo.