Research

    Research


    Working Papers


    • Conflicts of Interests, Ethical Rules and Competition (with Jan Bouckaert).


    • Competitive Neutrality and the Cost and Quality of Welfare Services. Gothenburg University, Working Papers in Economics 704.


    • Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity. University of Gothenburg, Working Papers in Economics 625.


    • Stable trading networks in international bilateral oligopoly. (with Alexander Konovalov)


    • Competition vs Regulation in Mobile Telecom. NET Institute Working Paper No. 08-09, 2008. (with Thomas Tangerås)


    • Intense Network Competition. NET Institute Working Paper No. 08-36, 2008. (with Thomas Tangerås)

    Journal Articles


    • Stennek, Johan. “Does Competition Make Firms More Flexible? - A Study of Limited Managerial Cognition.” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1994, Vol. 3, No. 2.


    • Stennek, Johan. ”Coordination in Oligopoly.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1997, Vol. 99, No. 4.


    • Stennek, Johan. “Expected Consumer's Surplus as a Welfare Measure.” Journal of Public Economics, 1999, 73.   


    • Stennek, Johan. “Survival Value of Assuming Others to be Rational.” International Journal of Game Theory, 2000, Vol. 29, No. 2, 147-163.


    • Stennek, Johan. “Competition Increases X-efficiency - A Limited Liability Mechanism.” European Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 44, No. 9, October, 1727-1744.


    • Stennek, Johan. “Horizontal Mergers without Synergies May Increase Consumer Welfare.” Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2003, Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 2.


    • Lindqvist, Tobias and Johan Stennek. “The Insider's Dilemma: An Experiment on Merger Formation.” Experimental Economics, 2005 8(3).


    • Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof and Johan Stennek. “Why Mergers Reduce Profits, and Raise Share Prices – A Theory of Preemptive Mergers.” Journal of the European Economic Association, September 2005, 3(5):1083-1104.


    • Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof and Johan Stennek. “Hold-up of Anti-Competitive Mergers.”  International Journal of Industrial Organization, December 2005, 23(9-10), 753-775.


    • Stennek, Johan. “A New Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence Explained, Policies Prescibed.” CESifo Forum 7(1), Spring 2006.


    • Björnerstedt, Jonas and Johan Stennek. “Bilateral Oligopoly - The Efficiency of Intermediate Goods Markets.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25, 884–907.


    • Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof and Johan Stennek. “Concentration and Welfare: On the Use of Stock-Market Evidence from Horizontal Mergers.” Economica, April 2009, 1-18.


    • Stennek, Johan. “Exclusive quality – Why exclusive distribution may benefit the TV-viewers.” Information Economics and Policy, Volume 26, March 2014, Pages 42-57.


    • Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality: A Theory of Domino Effects. Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.



    Book Chapters


    • Ghosal, Vivek, Joseph E. Harrington and Johan Stennek (2007). Recent Trends in Antitrust Enforcement. In The Political Economy of Antitrust (edited by Ghosal, Vivek and Johan Stennek), Elsevier.


    • Horn, Henrik and Johan Stennek (2007). “The Political Economy of EU Merger Control: Small vs. Large Member States.” In The Political Economy of Antitrust (edited by Ghosal, Vivek and Johan Stennek), Elsevier.


    • Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Johan Stennek and Frank Verboven (2006). ”Efficiency Gains from Merger.” In European Merger Control: Do We Need an Efficiency Defence? (edited by Ilzkovitz and Meiklejohn), Edward Elgar.


    • Stennek, Johan and Frank Verboven (2006). “Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness.” In European Merger Control: Do We Need an Efficiency Defence? (edited by Ilzkovitz and Meiklejohn), Edward Elgar.



    Books


    • Ghosal, Vivek and Johan Stennek (Eds.): The Political Economy of Antitrust, Elsevier, 2007.


    • Braunerhjelm, P, M. Ganslandt, S. Nyberg, J. Stennek and N. Wahl (2002). Gränslös Konkurrens: Sverige i ett integrerat Europa, Ekonomirådets rapport 2002, SNS Förlag, Stockholm.



    Policy Reports


    • Stennek, Johan (2015). En samhällsekonomisk analys av diskrimineringsersättningen (Economic analysis of damagas in discrimination cases). Report to Diskrimineringsombudsmannen (Swedish Equality Ombudsman).


    • Bergman, Mats and Johan Stennek (2014). Digitalradio – En samhällsekonomisk analys (Digital radio – An economic analysis). Report to Riksrevisionen (Swedish Audit Office).


    • Bergman, Mats and Johan Stennek (2014). Apoteksomregleringens påverkan på tillgänglighet (Was the availability on the Swedish pharmacy market improved as a result of deregulation?); in Låt den rätte komma in. Stockholm: Vårdanalys.


    • Bergman, Mats and Johan Stennek (2010). Bättre reglering av apoteksmarknaden (Better regulation of the pharmacy market.) Report to Swedish Audit Office, RiR.


    • Bergman, Mats, Emilie Fridensköld, Lars Henriksson and Johan Stennek (2009). En ny ransonerings- och prisregleringslag (A new rationing and price regulation law). SOU 2009:69.


    • Bergman, Mats, Emilie Fridensköld, Lars Henriksson and Johan Stennek (2009). Ransonering och prisreglering i krig och fred (Rationing and price regulation in war and peace). SOU 2009:3.


    • Bergman, Mats and Johan Stennek (2007). Competition in TV-Distribution - A framework and applications to Sweden, Report commissioned by the Swedish Competition Authority – KKV.


    • Stennek, Johan and Frank Verboven (2003). Efficiency Defense and Consumers Interests in European Merger Control, Report commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONS.


    • Stennek, Johan and Frank Verboven (2003). Quantitative Techniques to Assess Price Effects in European Merger Control from a Consumers’ Perspective , Report commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONS.


    • Horn, Henrik and Johan Stennek (2002). “EU Merger Control and Small Member State Interests.” In: The Pros and Cons of Merger Control, Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm.


    • Stennek, Johan and Frank Verboven (2001). “Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness.” European Economy, No 5, 129-194.


    • Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Johan Stennek and Frank Verboven (2001). ”Efficiency Gains from Mergers.” European Economy, No 5, 31-128.


    • Stennek, Johan (1998). Samhällsekonomisk analys av förvärvskontroll (Economic Analysis of Merger Control).  Bilaga till Konkurrenslagens regler om föetagskoncentration, betäkande av Konkurrenslagsutredningen, SOU 1998:98.



    Selected Expert Reports


    • Bergman, Mats och Johan Stennek (2011): Intense competition despite high concentration – A study of the Swedish food retailing sector. (in Swedish). Commissioned by ICA.


    • Stennek, Johan. How Should the 800 MHz Spectrum Auction be Organized to Maximize Consumer Benefits? (in Swedish); Commissioned by TeliaSonera, Tre and ICE and presented at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications and the Swedish Telecom Regulator (PTS).


    • Stennek, Johan. Price Squeezes and Refusal to Deal. (in Swedish); Commissioned by TeliaSonera and submitted to the Administrative Court.


    • Friberg, Richard and Johan Stennek. Comments on the Swedish Competition Authority’s Investigation of ICA  (in Swedish); Commissioned by ICA and submitted to the Swedish Competition Authority.


    • Horn, Henrik and Johan Stennek. Exclusionary Contracts in the Commercial TV Industry (in Swedish). Commissioned by Canal Digital; submitted to the Swedish Market Court.


    • Stennek, Johan and Thomas Tangerås.  Economic Analysis of SMP Assessments (in Swedish). Commissioned by Tele2 Sverige AB; submitted to the National Regulatory Authority (PTS).


    • Stennek, Johan and Frank Verboven. Economic Analysis of the Discount Adjustment in the Swedish Petrol Market in November 1999. Commissioned by Norsk Hydro Olje AB, OKQ8 AB, Preem Petroleum AB and Statoil Detaljhandel AB; submitted to Stockholm City Court and the Swedish Market Court.


    • Stennek, Johan and Thomas Tangerås. Market Based Access Prices to Mobile Phone Networks (in Swedish). Commissioned by Tele2 Sverige AB; submitted to Länsrätten i Stockholm.



    Popular Writing


    • Stennek, Johan (2013). Varför driver facket låglönepolitik? Ekonomisk Debatt, Nr. 1, 2013.


    • Stennek, Johan (2013). Svar på remiss av utredning om läkemedelspriser (SOU 2012:75).


    • Stennek, Johan (2012). Smartare priser på läkemedel ger god vård för alla. DN Debatt, 2012-04-02.


    • Stennek, Johan and Mats Bergman (2012). Hela Sveriges matbutiker. Handelskraft, 2012.


    • Stennek, Johan (2012). Svar på remiss av TPA-utredningen  (SOU 2011:44).


    • Stennek, Johan and Mats Bergman (2011). Hur lönsam är affären? Handelskraft, 2011.


    • Stennek, Johan (2008). Recept för konkurrens på läkemedel, Dagens Industri, 2008-05-14.


    • Stennek, Johan and Thomas P. Tangerås (2007). Better Regulation of Mobile Telecommunications, European Policy Analysis, No. 1, 2007.


    • Stennek, Johan and Thomas P. Tangerås (2007). Är mobilmarknaden mogen för avreglering? Ekonomisk Debatt.


    • Braunerhjelm, P, M. Ganslandt, S. Nyberg, J. Stennek and N. Wahl (2002). ”EU:s fusionskontroll behöver reformeras.” Dagens Industri, 2002.01.30.

    Copyright © All Rights Reserved