Faculty staff profile
Sven Feldmann
PhD (Harvard) MA (Zurich)
Associate Professor - Economics
Sven Feldmann is Associate Professor of Economics at Melbourne Business School.
His research areas are political economics and microeconomics, applying information economics, game theory, and social choice theory to questions of institutional and organizational design, communication and hierarchy.
Sven previously taught microeconomics and political economy at the University of Chicago, at Stanford Graduate School of Business and at Kellogg School of Management. One of his main interests is the application of political economy theory to the practice of business strategy in the non-market environment.
Sven received his PhD in political economy and government at Harvard and his Masters in economics at Zurich University. He is an associate member at the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at Kellogg and at the Centre for Economic and Business Research,Copenhagen.
Recent publications and working papers
- Matching and Economic Design
- Strong Firms Lobby, Weak Firms Bribe: A Survey-Based Analysis of the Demand for Influence and Corruption
- Lobbying Legislatures
- Lobbying and Legislative Organization: The Effect of the Vote of Confidence Procedure
- Lobbying Bureaucrats
- Structural Reform Litigation: Remedial Bargaining And Bureaucratic Drift
- Strategic Appointments
- Informational Lobbying and Political Contributions
- View all Sven's working papers & publications

