Dr Laura Meriluoto
Position
Senior Lecturer
International Business Director
Qualifications
M.Sc., Economics, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration,
1994.
Ph.D., Economics, Simon Fraser University, 1999.
Room
417, Level 4, Law Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364
2767
Internal Phone: 6767
Email:
laura.meriluoto@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Economics and Finance
College of Business and Economics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
ECON 222-S1 International Trade | ECON 329-S1 Industrial Organisation | MGMT 228-SU2 Chinese Business Practices and Culture (study tour)
Graduate Courses
ECON 654-S2 Industrial Organisation
Research Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Network Economics
- Auction design
Current Research Projects
- Spam - solutions and their problems
- Existence Advertising
- Email pricing
- Fixed Price Offer in online auctions
Recent Publications
"Existence Advertising, Price Competition and Asymmetric Market Structure" (joint with Curtis Eaton and Ian MacDonald), the B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 39.
"Efficient usage and access pricing in telephone networks" (joint with Ian MacDonald), International Journal of Industrial Organization 23(7-8), 2005, pp.615-624.
"Getting on the map of the global economy: a case of Finland” (joint with Nils Bjorksten), in: Jacques Poot ed., On the Edge of the Global Economy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004, pp. 224-243.