Phone: +44(0)121 204 3107
Email: m.olczak@aston.ac.uk
Room: SW1017

Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/matthewolczak

I am an Industrial Economist with extensive research and teaching experience. My recent research has modelled the incentives of colluding firms, with the aims of explaining real-world collusive behaviour and improving competition policy to regulate collusion and cartels. My ongoing research examines hub and spoke cartels.  I have taught Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy and have a keen interest in using technology to enhance teaching and learning.

• Vertical restraints

• Recommended retail prices

• Merger policy

• Tacit and explicit collusion

• Using technology to enhance learning and teaching (see video)

• BS3327 Competition Policy - Practice 
• Contributor to The Sloman Economic News Site -http://pearsonblog.campaignserver.co.uk/  

• Post Graduate Certificate of Professional Practice in Higher Education, Aston University, 2011

• PhD Economics, University of East Anglia, 2009

• MA Industrial Economics, University of East Anglia, 2002

• BA Economics, University of East Anglia, 2001

• 2009 - to date: Lecturer, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School

• 2002 - 2009: Research Associate, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Available to supervise students in industrial organisation and competition policy. 

Associate Member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy http://competitionpolicy.ac.uk/ European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Network of Industrial Economists, Fellow of Higher Education Academy.