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Dr Matthew Olczak

Matt Olczak

Lecturer

Economics and Strategy Group

Profile

I joined Aston Business School in September 2009 shortly after submitting my PhD thesis on ‘Firm Numbers, Asymmetries and Competition’, undertaken at the University of East Anglia under the supervision of Professor Stephen Davies. I also previously worked as a Research Associate at the University of East Anglia ESRC Centre for Competition Policy.

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Qualifications & Education

 

  • Post Graduate Certificate of Professional Practice in Higher Education, Aston University, 2011

  • PhD Economics, University of East Anglia, 2009

  • MA Industrial Economics, University of East Anglia, 2002

  • BA Economics, University of East Anglia, 2001

Employment

  • 2009 - to date: Lecturer, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School

  • 2002 - 2009: Research Associate, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Research interests

  • Vertical restraints

  • Recommended retail prices

  • Merger policy

  • Tacit and explicit collusion

  • Using technology to enhance learning and teaching (see video)

Teaching Activity

Undergraduate teaching:

PhD Supervision

Main supervisor for Joseph Bromfield - Maverick firms
Support supervisor for Yupu Lin - Cross-border mergers and acquisitions under the context of globalisation

Available to supervise students in industrial organisation and competition policy. 

Membership of Professional Bodies

 Associate Member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy http://competitionpolicy.ac.uk/

European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Network of Industrial Economists, Fellow of Higher Education Academy. 

 

Davies, S.W., Olczak, M., and Coles, H., (2010). Tacit collusion, firm asymmetries and numbers: evidence from EC merger cases. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29(2), 221-31.   

Davies, S.W., and Olczak, M., (2010). Assessing the efficacy of structural merger remedies: choosing between theories of harm, Review of Industrial Organization, 37, 83-99. 

Davies, S.W., and Olczak, M., (2008). Tacit versus overt collusion. Firm asymmetries and numbers: what’s the evidence?, Competition Policy International, 4(2), Autumn, 175-200, 2008.

Davies, S.W., Ball, C., Olczak, M., and Wilson, C., (2008). An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books, Report for the OFT, No. 981.

Davies, S.W., Coles, H., Olczak, M., Pike, C., and Wilson, C., (2004). Benefits from competition: some illustrative UK cases, Report for the DTI, Economics Paper No. 9.

Learning & teaching

Olczak, M., (2012). Using an online resource to set assessed weekly quizzes, Aston Business School Good Practice Guide in Learning and Teaching, 9, 32-4. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/clipp/learning-innovation/ltr-good-practice-guides/

Working papers

Olczak, M., (2011). The impact of recommended retail prices on bilateral bargaining and retail pricing.

Olczak, M., (2011). Unilateral versus coordinated effects: comparing the impact on consumer welfare of alternative merger outcomes.

Hviid, M., and Olczak, M., (2011). Raising rivals' fixed costs. 

Olczak, M., (2011). Chain-store pricing and the structure of retail markets.

Learning & teaching

Olczak, M., (2011). Evaluating the impact of a web-based resource on student learning. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1822665

Work in progress

Olczak, M., (2012). Can resale price maintenance make exclusion more likely?  

E-book and paperback prices under free pricing and resale price maintenance (with S.Davies).