Sylvain BOURJADE

Professor of Economics- Researcher
Resident Faculty

Higher Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Toulouse 1, France (2005) 
Dissertation title: The role of Experts in Multi-Unit Auctions (Supervisor: Bruno JULLIEN, IDEI-Toulouse)
Dissertation Committee: Bruno BIAIS (IDEI-Toulouse), Denis GROMB (London Business School), Didier LAUSSEL (University of Marseille), Jean TIROLE (IDEI-Toulouse).

• DEEQA (Diplôme Européen d'Economie Quantitative Approfondie)
Université de Toulouse 1, France

• M.Sc. Economic Theory and Econometrics 
Université de Toulouse 1, France

• B.Sc. Mathematics
Université de Perpignan, France

Academic activities

Refereeing Experience: 

• Economic Journal
• International Journal of Industrial Organization
• Review of Economic Design
• Louvain Economic Review

Teaching areas

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Microeconomics
• Mathematics
• Mechanism Design

Professional experience

Research activities

Research interests

• Mechanism Design
• Corporate Governance
• Initial Public Offerings
• Competition Policy
• Economics of Expertise
• Auction Theory

Main publications

Major publications

• Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining, 2009, with Patrick Rey and Paul Seabright (TSE), The Journal of Industrial Economics 57(3), pp. 372 – 409.

• Strategic Price Discounting and Rationing in Uniform Price Auctions, 2009, Economics Letters 105 (2009) pp. 23-27.

Working Papers :

• Collusion in Boards of Directors, with Laurent Germain (TBS), Working Paper 2008.

• Expertise and Bias in Decision Making, with Bruno Jullien (TSE), IDEI Working Paper 2007.

• Existence of a Unique Equilibrium in Uniform Price Auctions with Strategic Rationing, Working Paper 2005.

• Non-Existence of Equilibria in Uniform Price Auctions with Asymmetric Bidders, Working Paper 2005.

• Multi-Unit Auctions: A Survey, Working Paper 2003.

• Diversification of Investor’s Expertise in IPOs, Working Paper 2002.

• Structural Estimation in Microeconomics, Published in a Research Project for the Conseil Régional de Midi Pyrénées, 2001.

Publications

Academic journal paper

BOURJADE, Sylvain (2009) 'Strategic price discounting and rationing in uniform price auctions',Economics Letters, Vol. 105, octobre: 23-27

BOURJADE, Sylvain, REY, Patrick et SEABRIGHT, Paul (2009) 'Private antitrust enforcement in the presence of pre-trial bargaining', The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 57, No. 3 SPECIAL ISSUE : Cresse Symposium on Compettion Policy : Procedures, Institutions and Intellectual Property Rights; Edited by Yannis Katsoulacos and David Ulph, septembre: 372-409

Refereed Conference contribution with published proceedings

BOURJADE, Sylvain et JULLIEN, Bruno (2009) 'Expertise and bias in decision making', EEA-ESEM, Barcelone, 23 août - 27 août.

BOURJADE, Sylvain et GERMAIN, Laurent (2009) 'Collusion in Boards of Directors', TBS Corporate Governance Conference, 30 juin.

BOURJADE, Sylvain, REY, Patrick et SEABRIGHT, Paul (2009) 'Private antitrust enforcement in the presence of pre-trial bargaining', EEA-ESEM, Barcelone, 23 août - 27 août.

BOURJADE, Sylvain, REY, Patrick et SEABRIGHT, Paul (2008) 'Private antitrust enforcement in the presence of pre-trial bargaining', 3rd International conference on competition and regulation, Athènes, juillet.

BOURJADE, Sylvain, REY, Patrick et SEABRIGHT, Paul (2007) 'Private antitrust enforcement in the presence of pre-trial bargaining', Forum EAGCP, Bruxelles, 14 septembre.

BOURJADE, Sylvain et JULLIEN, Bruno (2007) 'Expertise and bias in decision making', Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Marseille, juin.

BOURJADE, Sylvain (2007) 'Private Antitrust Enforcement', Colloque ACLE, Amsterdam, 16 mars - 17 mars.

BOURJADE, Sylvain (2006) 'Diversification of Investor's Expertise in IPOs', Conférence AFFI, Paris, 18 décembre - 19 décembre.

Other conference contribution

BOURJADE, Sylvain, REY, Patrick et SEABRIGHT, Paul (2007) 'Private antitrust enforcement in the presence of pre-trial bargaining', Workshop Politique de la concurrence, Université de Toulouse, septembre.

Departmental report and working paper

BOURJADE, Sylvain (2008) Strategic price discounting and rationing in uniform price auctions, Cahier de Recherche GESCT, Toulouse, février, 7 pages

BOURJADE, Sylvain (2007) Diversification of investor's expertise in IPOs, Cahier de Recherche ESCT, décembre