Prof Bruce Lyons
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Economics |
B dot Lyons at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: 2084/1623 |
Arts 3.42 |
Biography
His current research is focused on the economic analysis of competition policy; in particular on how the delegated objectives and organization of a competition authority affect remedies, outcomes and economic efficiency. Since 2001, he has given invited research papers in nine countries, and held visiting research positions at the European University Institute and University of Melbourne.
Key Research Interests
Ongoing funded projects
Centre for Competition Policy, an ESRC Research Centre, initially for five years 2004-10 (with Steve Davies, Morten Hviid and Catherine Waddams)
Funded projects completed since 1 January 2001
Theoretical and empirical analyses of the competitiveness impact of remedies in EC Merger Control, European Commission, 2003, (with Steve Davies)
Post-merger study: efficiency effects of a global merger in the iron ore industry, European Commission, 2002 (with S. W. Davies)
Publications since 1 January 2001
Journal Articles
‘Reform of European Merger Policy’ (2004) Review of International Economics, 12(2), 246-61 (with C. Matraves and P. Moffatt)
'Industrial Concentration and Market Integration in the European Union' (2001) Economica, February, vol 68, #269, 1-26,
'What Do We Conclude from the Success and Failure of Mergers?' (2001) Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Vol.1 No.4, 411-22
‘Discussion of Professor Sutton's Keynes Lecture: Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities: Industrial Development Revisited' (2001) Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol.111, 268-73
Books
‘Cases in European Competition Policy: the Economic Analysis’ (Editor) (forthcoming 2008) Cambridge University Press
'Mergers and Merger Remedies: Consequences for Competition’ (with S. W. Davies) (forthcoming 2007) Edward Elgar
‘Merger Control in the UK’ (with A. Scott and M. Hviid) (2006) Oxford University Press
Book Chapters, Reports and Contributions to Collections/Proceedings
‘The Orders and Rules of British Horseracing: Anticompetitive Agreements or Good Governance?’ ch. 8 in Cases in European Competition Policy: the Economic Analysis edited by B. R. Lyons, (forthcoming 2008) Cambridge University Press
‘The Impact of the Single Currency in Europe on Product Markets: Theory and Evidence’ (with M. Gasiorek, R. Davidson, S. Davies, D. Ulph, R. Vaughan and A. Winters) ch.2 in A. Dierx, F. Ilzkovitz and K. Sekkat (Eds.) European Integration and the Functioning of Product Markets, (2004) pp.17-60, Edward Elgar
‘Efficiency Effects of a Global Merger in the Iron Ore Industry’ (2003) confidential final report for European Commission
‘The Substantive Test and Merger-Specific Efficiencies in EU Merger Control’ written evidence in response to invitation to comment on CEC Green Paper Review of Council Regulation 4046/89 COM (2001) 745/6; pp 8 (published on DG Comp web site)
‘The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse’ CCP Newsletter, spring (2007)
‘How Simple Simulations Would Improve EC Merger and Remedy Appraisal’ CCP Newsletter, spring (2005)
‘What is driving reform in EU merger control?’ CCR Newsletter #5, 6 (2003) (with S.W. Davies)
‘Merger Appraisal Under ‘Substantial Lessening of Competition’’ in CCR Newsletter #3, 4-6 (2002)
‘GE-Honeywell: Politics, Law or Economics?’ in CCR Newsletter #2, 3-4 (2002)
‘What Does Economics Offer to the Practice of Competition Policy’ (with S.W. Davies) in CCR Newsletter #1, 2 (2001)
Working papers
‘Endogenous Mergers and Remedies in a Two-Phase Merger Inquiry System’
‘Bargaining over Remedies in Merger Regulation’ (with A. Medvedev) (2007) CCP 07-03
‘Could Politicians be More Right than Economists? A Theory of Merger Standards’, (2002) CCR Working Paper 02-01
‘Incomplete Contract Theory and Contracts between Firms: A preliminary empirical study’
(2001) CCR Working Paper 01-1
