Faculty staff profile

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.

• Exclusivity, Competition, and the Irrelevance of External Investments
• The Relocation of Crime
• The Shrinking of Middle Management
• Israel's 'Silicon Wadi': the sources of its comparative advantage in the IT industry
• Vertical Integration and Competition between Networks
• Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Comment
• Can Vertical Integration by a Monopsonist Harm Consumer Welfare?
• Optional Fixed Fees in Multilateral Vertical Relations
• A Bargaining Perspective on Strategic Outsourcing and Supply Competition (forthcoming)
• Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities
• View all Catherine 's working papers & publications