Dr. Christian Bach

Expert Fellow

Biography

Christian Bach is an Expert Fellow with Swiss Economics, where he is working in the fields of competition policy and regulatory economics. As an expert in game theory and economic theory, Christian Bach has conducted extensive research in the subfield of epistemic game theory and published in international journals. Besides, he is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Liverpool and lectures game theory at the EpiCenter, Maastricht University. He holds a Ph.D. in game theory and was a visiting scholar at the economics department of NYU Stern School of Business.

Work Experience

Expert Fellow, Swiss Economics (2015 – )
Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Liverpool (2015 – )
Project Manager, Swiss Economics (2013 – 2015)
Postdoc, Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University (2010 – 2013)
Assistant, Research Group in Mathematical Logic, HEC Lausanne (2005 – 2010)

Education

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business (2011)
Ph.D. in Game Theory, HEC Lausanne & Maastricht University (“co-tutelle”) (2010)
Master (MSc) in Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science LSE (2005)
Master (Lic. oec.) in Economics, University of St.Gallen HSG (2004)

Expertise

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Publications (selection)

Bach Christian, Perea Andrés (2021). Incomplete Information and Iterated Strict Dominance. Oxford Economic Papers 73(2), pp. 820-836.
Bach Christian, Perea Andrés (2020). Two Definitions of Correlated Equilibrium. Journal of Mathematical Economics 90, pp. 12-24.
Bach Christian, Perea Andrés (2020). Generalized Nash Equilibrium without Common Belief in Rationality. Economics Letters 186, pp. 1-6.
Bach Christian, Cabessa Jérémie (2017). Limit-Agreeing to Disagree. Journal of Logic and Computation 27(4), pp. 1169-1187.
Jaag Christian, Bach Christian (2017). Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies. In: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy: The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector. Edited by M. Crew, P.L. Parcu and T.Brennan, Springer, pp. 205--221.
Jaag Christian, Bach Christian (2015). The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality. In: Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data. Edited by D.L.K. Chuen, Elsevier, pp. 139-151.

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Dietl Helmut, Jaag Christian, Trinkner Urs, Bach Christian, Funk Miachel, Lutzenberger Martin, Yusof Jeffrey (2015). Auswirkungen der Initiative -Pro Service public. Study for the Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Berggebiete (SAB) and the Schweizerischen Gemeindeverband (SGV).

Eberle Reto, Jaag Christian, Bach Christian (2015). Relevanz der Revision - Studie zum Nutzen der Wirtschaftsprüfung in der Schweiz / Pertinence de la Révision - étude sur l'utilité de l'audit en Suisse. Der Schweizer Treuhänder 3/4-2015.

Eberle Reto, Jaag Christian, Bach Christian, Strube Martins Sonia, Feger Fabian (2014). Nutzen der Wirtschaftsprüfung. Study for the Schweizerischen Treuhandkammer.

Bach Christian, Tsakas Elias (2014). Pairwise Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium. Games and Economic Behavior 85, pp. 48-59.

Bach Christian, Perea Andrés (2014). Utility Proportional Beliefs. International Journal of Game Theory 43(4), pp. 881-902.

Bach Christian, Perea Andrés (2013). Agreeing to Disagree with Lexicographic Prior Beliefs. Mathematical Social Sciences 66(2), pp. 129-133.

Jaag Christian, Bach Christian (2013). Virtual Currencies and Physical Posts: A Perfect Match. The Postal Industry 1(2), pp. 11-12.

Bach Christian, Cabessa Jérémie (2012). Limit Knowledge and Common Knowledge. Theory and Decision 73(3), pp. 423-440.

Bach Christian, Heilmann Conrad (2011). Agent Connectedness and Backward Induction. International Game Theory Review 13(2), pp. 195-208.

Bach Christian, Cabessa Jérémie (2011). Agreeing to Disagree with Limit Knowledge. In LORI 2011: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction. LNCS vol. 6953, Springer, pp. 51-90.

Bach Christian, Cabessa Jérémie (2009). Limit Knowledge of Rationality. In TARK 2009: Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge. ACM, pp. 34-40.