Professor Robert Rothschild
MA Cape Town
Emeritus Professor
Department
Economics
Current Teaching
Microeconomics for MBA; Microeconomics of Banking for MSc Money, Banking and Finance.
Profile
Bob Rothschild is Professor of Economics. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, and former Research Student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he has worked in industry in both the UK and Germany. He has held visiting posts at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA, at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia, Curtin Business School in Perth, Australia, and at the Northwest Polytechnical University in Xian, China. He has also spent a period on research leave at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His principal research area is in industrial organization analysis, with particular reference to cartel behaviour and competition in product-differentiated markets. On these and related topics he has published widely, in journals such as the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, Economics Letters, Manchester School, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Southern Economic Journal, Australian Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Publications
- Rothschild R, 2011, 'The kinked demand curve', in Famous Diagrams in Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
View details - Rothschild R, Stallard T and Aggidis G, 2008, 'A comparative approach to the economic modelling of a large-scale wave power scheme', European Journal of Operational Research, vol 185, no. 2, pp. 884-898.
View details - Rothschild R and Roy J, 2007, 'Punishment paths and cartel size', Research in Economics, vol 61, no. 4, pp. 218-223.
View details - Rothschild R, Heywood J S and Monaco K, 2007, 'Strategic contracts versus multiple plants: location under sequential entry', Manchester School, vol 75, no. 2, pp. 237-257.
View details - Rothschild R, Stallard T, Bradshaw A and Aggidis G, 2005, 'Comparison of equivalent capacity wave energy schemes', in Proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress 2005 (WREC 2005), Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, ISBN: 008044671X
View details - Rothschild R, Heywood J S and Monaco K, 2004, 'Delivered pricing and merger with demand constraints', Economic Inquiry, vol 42, no. 1, pp. 49-59.
View details - Rothschild R, Heywood J S and Monaco K, 2003, 'Cooperative merger and joint maximization under sequential entry', Economics Working Paper Series
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View PDF - Rothschild R, Heywood J S and Monaco K, 2001, 'Spatial price discrimination and merger: the N-firm case', Southern Economic Journal, vol 67, no. 3, pp. 672-684.
View details - Rothschild R, 2001, 'On the use of a modified Shapley value to determine the optimal size of a cartel', Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, vol 45, no. 5, pp. 37-47.
View details - Rothschild R, Heywood J S and Monaco K, 2000, 'Spatial price discrimination and the merger paradox', Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol 30, no. 5, pp. 491-506.
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