UCD School of Economics

Scoil na hEacnamaíochta UCD

Dr Sarah A Parlane M.A., PHD

Contact Details

Title	Lecturer
Address	School of Economics Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone:	Ext. 8677
Email:	ei.dcu@enalrap.haras

Biography:

Research Interests

Auction and mechanism design:

-Contracting with Capacity Constrained Suppliers, Economic Theory, 2001(17), pages 619-639
-Procurement Contracts under Limited Liability, Economic and Social Review, 2003, pages 1-21
-Auction versus Private Treaty WP 03/06
-Auctioning Horizontally Differentiated Items, forthcoming in Review of Industrial Organization

Innovation, intellectual property and licensing:

-A Dynamic Model of Cross Licensing WP 04/24 joint with Yann Ménière, CERNA Paris (France)
-Licensing a Standard: Fixed Fee Versus Royalty, mimeo (august 2005), joint with Yann Ménière, CERNA Paris (France)
-Hold-up Patents and Efficiency, mimeo (February 2005), joint with Yann Ménière, CERNA Paris (France)

-Innovation in the Shadow of Patent Litigation (RIO, forthcoming)

Finance

-Optimal IPO Design with Strategic Trading, with Dr. Fabrice Rousseau, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth, WP07/06

Peer Reviewed Journals

Sarah Parlane and Yann Meniere; (2010) 'Decentralized licensing of complementary patents: comparing the royalty, fixed-fee and two-part tariff regimes'. Information Economics and Policy, 22 :178-191. [Details]

Sarah Parlane; (2008) 'Auctioning Horizontally Differentiated Items'. Review of Industrial Organization, 33 :113-128. [Details]

Sarah Parlane and Yann Meniere; (2008) 'Innovation in the Shadow of Patent Litigation'. Review of Industrial Organization, 32 (2):95-111. [Details]

Sarah Parlane; (2003) 'Procurement contracts under limited liability'. Economic and Social Review, 34 (1):1-21. [Details]

Sarah Parlane; (2001) 'Contracting with capacity constrained suppliers'. Economic Theory, 17 (3):619-639. [Details]

Conference Contributions

Parlane, S.; (2005) Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory summer conference. [Oral Presentation], Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory summer conference, Vigo , 01-JUN-05.

Parlane, C.; (2006) International Industrial Organization Conference. [Oral Presentation], International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston , 01-APR-06.

Parlane, S.; (2003) Econometric Society Summer Meeting,. [Oral Presentation], Econometric Society Summer Meeting,, Stockholm , 01-AUG-03.

Parlane, S.; (2004) World Congress on Game Theory. [Oral Presentation], World Congress on Game Theory, Marseilles , 01-JUL-04.

Parlane, S.; (2004) Zeuthen lectures on auction theory. [Oral Presentation], Zeuthen lectures on auction theory, Copenhagen, , 01-NOV-04.

Education

Year 1992 Institution: Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse
Qualification: BA Subject: Microeconomics and Econometrics

Year 1997 Institution: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Qualification: Ph.D. Subject: Autions and Procurement Contracts

Languages

French:

English:

Spanish:

Other Activities

Referee for:

Journal of Economic Theory,
Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences,
International Journal of Industrial Organization,
Journal of Industrial Economics,
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique,
Revista Espanola de Economia.

Teaching Interests

-Industrial Organization (Undergraduate and Graduate)
-Microeconomic Theory (Graduate)
-Game Theory and Information Economics (Undergraduate and Graduate)
-Tutorials in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)

Recent Postgraduates

Modules Taught

200800 ECON40060 Economics: Microeconomics

200800 ECON30180 Economics: Industrial Economics

200800 ECON30160 Economics: International Trade Economics