Catherine de Fontenay is an academic economist who has researched and taught in
institutions across Australia. 

Prior to joining MBS, Catherine held positions at the University of New South Wales and
the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. Her teaching and program
directing expertise is extensive, and her subjects include economic development,
managerial economics, game theory and business strategy, markets in developing countries,
and industrial organisation. 

Catherine's work has been published in a range of international journals. Her
research interests include development economics, industrial organisation, theory of
contracts and organisations, and comparative institutional analysis. Her most recent
project examined spiralling crime rates in developing countries, and assessed the
resultant costs to business. 

Articles

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A Bargaining Perspective on Strategic Outsourcing and Supply Competition (forthcoming) (with Joshua S. Gans), Strategic Management Journal (2008)
 

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Vertical Integration in the Presence of Upstream Competition (with Joshua S. Gans), RAND Journal of Economics (2005)
 

Vertical Integration and Competition between Networks (with Joshua S. Gans), Review of Network Economics (2005)
 

Optional Fixed Fees in Multilateral Vertical Relations (with Joshua S. Gans), Economics Letters (2005)
 

Contributions to Books

Israel’s ‘Silicon Wadi’: the sources of its comparative advantage in the IT industry (with Erran Carmel), Building High-Tech Clusters (2004)
 

Unpublished Papers

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Exclusivity, Competition, and the Irrelevance of External Investments (with Joshua S. Gans and Vivienne Groves) (2009)
 

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Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities (with Joshua S. Gans) (2007)