Christian Trudeau

Office Location: 1172 Chrysler Hall North
Office Ext.: 2374
Email: trudeauc@uwindsor.ca

Christian Trudeau completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Université de Montréal in 2009. He joined the Department of Economics at the University of Windsor as an Assistant Professor in July 2008.

His research focuses on cooperative game theory, axiomatic analysis of cost sharing mechanisms, as well as theoretical Industrial Organization.

Research Interests:

• Microeconomics
• Game Theory
• Industrial Organization

Selected Bibliography:

Cost Sharing with Multiple Technologies, Games and Economic Behavior 67 (2009), pp. 695-707.

Network Flow Problems and Permutationally Concave Games, Mathematical Social Sciences 58 (2009), pp. 121-131.

"A new stable and more responsive cost sharing solution for mcst problems", Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012), pp. 402-412. (Working paper version)

"A discrete cost sharing model with technological cooperation", (with E. Bahel), forthcoming in International Journal of Game Theory. (Working paper version)

"Characterizations of the Kar and folk solutions for minimum cost spanning tree problems", forthcoming in International Game Theory Review. (Extended working paper version)

"Low cost, low quality alternatives in markets with lagged network externalities", formally "Automatic user contributions and price competition", under review.

"Linking the Kar and Folk Solutions Through a Problem Separation Property", under review.

"A reconsideration of the Kar solution for minimum cost spanning tree problems", under review.

"Poverty, Informality and the Optimal General Income Tax Policy", (with M. Arbex and E. Mattos), under review.

Teaching:

• *ECN 221 Intermediate Microeconomics I
• *ECN 385 Public Economics: Expenditure
• ECN 420 Industrial Organization Theory
• ECN 424 Advanced Microeconomics II
• *ECN 501 Microeconomic Theory
• ECN 503 Microeconomic Theory II
• *ECN 531 Industrial Organization

* indicates in current academic year