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Ingela Alger Bacc. (Saint-Germain-en-Laye), M.Sc. (SSE), Ph.D. (Toulouse) Associate Professor (Economics) Office: D-896 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 1509 E-mail: ingela_alger [at] carleton [dot] ca Web site: http://www.carleton.ca/~ialger/ Languages spoken other than English: Swedish, French, Spanish |
Research fields: microeconomic theory, contract theory
Expertise:
• economics of asymmetric information
• theoretical analysis of insurance markets
• informal risk sharing and moral hazard
• industrial organization
Selected publications:
"Kinship, Incentives, and Evolution" (with Jörgen W. Weibull), American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 4 (September 2010), pp. 1725-1758.
“Family Ties, Incentives and Development: A Model of Coerced Altruism” (with Jörgen W. Weibull), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanburn, Oxford University Press, 2008.
“A Theory of Fraud and Overtreatment in Experts Markets” (with François Salanié), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 853–881.
“Screening Ethics When Honest Agents Care about Fairness” (with Régis Renault), International Economic Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 (February 2006), pp. 59–85.
“Consumer Strategies Limiting the Monopolist’s Power: Multiple and Joint Purchases,” RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 736–757.
Short biography:
Ingela Alger received her B.A. and M.A. from the Stockholm School of Economics, and her Ph.D. from l’Université de Toulouse. She has undertaken research on a range of issues in the areas of industrial organization and the development of institutions, including the design of risk-sharing institutions. This work has been published in journals such as the RAND Journal of Economics, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and Economic Theory. She has held a faculty position at Boston College, and visiting positions at Boston University, London School of Economics (Financial Markets Group), Stockholm School of Economics, and l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise.