Economics Department

Boston College

Carney Hall 244

140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill MA 02467-3806

ingela.alger@bc.edu

- Ph.D., Economics, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, 1997

Advisor: Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont

- M.Sc., Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, 1992

September 1999 — now: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston College

May 1998 — June 1999: Research Fellow, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics

September 1997 — May 1998: Visiting Researcher, Economics Department, Boston University

- Marie Curie Research training Grant (TMR program), 1998-99

- Sweden-America Foundation, 1997-98

- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1993 and 1995

- Swedish Institute, 1993

- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1993

- Swedish International Development Authority, 1991

- Runner-up prize in the Young Economist’s Essay competition, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE, 1996) for the paper "Consumer Strategies Limiting the Monopolist’s Power: Multiple and Joint Purchases"

Boston College: Intermediate Microeconomics, Contract Theory (for undergraduates)

London School of Economics: Principles of Corporate Finance

Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse: Intermediate and Advanced Microeconomics

Stockholm School of Economics: Intermediate Microeconomics

Stockholm University: Mathematics for Economics Graduate Students

Consumer Strategies Limiting the Monopolist’s Power: Multiple and Joint Purchases, RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 736-757.

Liquid Assets in Banks: Theory and Practice, with Guillermo Alger, 1999

Honest Agents and Equilibrium Lies, with Régis Renault, 1998

Moral Hazard, Insurance, and Some Collusion, with Ching-to Albert Ma, 1998

Claim Inflation in Health Insurance: A Rationale for Managed Health Care, with François Salanié, 1997

Collusion in a Debt Contract, 1994

- Honest Agents and Equilibrium Lies

Invited seminars: MIT (theory lunch), University of St Andrews, Université de Caen

- Moral Hazard, Insurance, and Some Collusion

Invited seminars: Boston College, CIDE Mexico, Olin School of Business (Washington University, StLouis), University College London, University of Dundee, University of Southampton, Université de Namur, University of Wisconsin

- Consumer Strategies Limiting the Monopolist’s Power: Multiple and Joint Purchases

Invited seminars: Université de Montréal, University of Virginia

Conferences: EEA Istanbul 1996, EARIE Vienna 1996

- Claim Inflation in Health Insurance: A Rationale for Managed Health Care

Conferences: EEA Toulouse 1997

- Collusion in a Debt Contract

Invited seminars: Stockholm School of Economics

Conferences: EEA Prague 1995, ENTER Jamboree 1995