Simon Loertscher has received his Doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2004-5 and a Lecturer at the University of Bern in 2005-6 before joining the Economics Department of the University of Melbourne in 2007.
His dissertation deals with Industrial Organization Models of intermediation and market microstructure. His other fields of interest are Mechanism Design and Political Economics.