Prof. Dr. Catherine Roux is professor of Industrial Organization and Regulation of Energy Markets. Her research focuses on Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, and Energy Markets.

The research group Industrial Organization and Regulation of Energy Markets is embedded within focal area "Energy and Environment" and is part of the Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition - CREST. Prof. Roux is doing research within the Work Package / Task: 3.2 at the SCCER CREST.

Work in Progress

Communication and Market Sharing Agreements: An Experiment on the Exchange of Soft and Hard Information, revise and resubmit, International Economic Review
with Andreas Freitag and Christian Thöni

Attention, Preference Shifts, and Choice Inconsistencies: An Experiment on Choosing Electricity Plans Under Cognitive Load
with Sebastian Olschewski and Steve Heinke

Market Transparency and Sustainable Behavior: Evidence from Interactions in Experimental Markets
with Steve Heinke and Sebastian Schäfers

Endogenous Mergers, Mavericks and Tacit Collusion: Experimental Evidence
with Donja Darai and Frédéric Schneider

Published Research

Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Exclusionary Pricing Policies (previously circulated under "Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Predatory Pricing Policies"), accepted, Journal of Law and Economics [link]
with Aaron S. Edlin, Armin Schmutzler and Christian Thöni

Shared Ownership of Intangible Property Rights: The Case of Patent Co-Assignments
Journal of Legal Studies, 46(2) (2017), 339-369 [link]
with Andrea Fosfuri and Christian Helmers

Home Bias in Multimarket Cournot Games
European Economic Review, 89 (2016), 361-371 [link]
with Luís Santos-Pinto and Christian Thöni

Collusion Among Many Firms: The Disciplinary Power of Targeted Punishment
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 116 (2015), 83-93 [link]
with Christian Thöni

Do Control Questions Influence Behavior in Experiments?
Experimental Economics, 18(2) (2015), 185-194 [link]
with Christian Thöni

Leniency Programs for Multimarket Firms: The Effect of Amnesty Plus on Cartel Formation
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30(6) (2012), 624-640 [link]
with Yassine Lefouili

Antitrust Enforcement and Parallel Cartels: Past Experience and Challenges Ahead
In Palazzo, G. & Wentland, M. (Ed.), Responsible Management Practices for the XXIst Century (pp.13-20), Pearson