Professor Robert Rothschild
Emeritus
Economics
The Management SchoolLancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YX
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.
Qualifications
MA Cape Town
Current Teaching
Microeconomics for MBA; Microeconomics of Banking for MSc Money, Banking and Finance.
Recent publications
- The kinked demand curve
Rothschild, R. 2010 In: Famous figures and diagrams in economics. Blaug, M. & Lloyd, P J. (eds.). Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
Chapter - A comparative approach to the economic modelling of a large-scale wave power scheme
Stallard, T., Rothschild, R. & Aggidis, G. 2008 In: European Journal of Operational Research. 185, 2, p. 884-898. 15 p.
Journal article - Punishment paths and cartel size
Rothschild, R. & Roy, J. 2007 In: Research in Economics. 61, 4, p. 218-223. 6 p.
Journal article - Strategic contracts versus multiple plants: location under sequential entry
Rothschild, R., Heywood, J S. & Monaco, K. 2007 In: Manchester School. 75, 2, p. 237-257. 21 p.
Journal article - Comparison of equivalent capacity wave energy schemes
Rothschild, R., Stallard, T., Bradshaw, A. & Aggidis, G. 2005 In: Proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress 2005 (WREC 2005). London, New York and Amsterdam : Elsevier
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