Vertical Integration and Outsourcing
- "A Bargaining Perspective on Strategic Outsourcing and Supply Competition," (with Catherine de Fontenay), Strategic Management Journal, 2008 (forthcoming).
- "Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.50, No.4, November 2007, pp.661-680.
- "Introduction to Special Issue on "Negotiations and Cooperative Arrangements in Industrial Organization," (with Roman Inderst) International Journal of Industrial Organization,Vol.25, No.5, October 2007, pp.879-883.
- "Vertical Contracting when Competition for Orders Precedes Procurement," Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.55, No.2., June 2007, pp.335-346.
- "Optional Fixed Fees in Multilateral Vertical Relations," (with Catherine de Fontenay) Economics Letters, Vol.88, 2005, pp.184-189.
- "Vertical Integration and Competition Between Networks," (with Catherine de Fontenay), Review of Network Economics, Vol.4, No.1, March 2005, pp.4-18. (Here is the 2001 Version: Extending Market Power through Vertical Integration)
- "Vertical Integration in the Presence of Upstream Competition," (with Catherine de Fontenay), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.3, 2005, pp.544-572. For previous working paper version, click here.
- "Can Vertical Integration by a Monopsonist Harm Consumer Welfare?" (with Catherine de Fontenay), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2004, pp. 821-834.
The Theory of the Firm
- "Inefficient Ownership and Resale Opportunities," Economics Letters, Vol.93, 2006, pp.242-247.
- "Markets for Ownership," RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.2, 2005, pp.433-455. For previous version with re-sale model, click here.
- "A Technological and Organisational Explanation of the Size Distribution of Firms," (with John Quiggin), Small Business Economics, Vol.21, No.3, November 2003, pp. 243-256.
- "Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Comment" (with Catherine de Fontenay), American Economic Review, Vol.93, No.1, 2003, pp.448-455.
Innovation and Intellectual Property
- "The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence for Patent Grant Delays" (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), Management Science, Vol.54, No.5, May 2008, pp.982-997.
- "Patent Length and the Timing of Innovative Activity," (with Stephen King), Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.55, No.4, December, 2007, pp.772-772.
- "Patent Renewal Fees and Self-Funded Patent Offices," (with Stephen King and Ryan Lampe), Topics in Theoretical Economics, Vol.4, No.1, 2004, Article 6.
- "When Does Funding Research by Small Firms Bear Fruit? Evidence from the SBIR Program," (with Scott Stern), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol.12, No.4, 2003, pp.361-384. Click here for NBER Working Paper (February 2000).
- "Managing Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Biotechnology," The ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol.2, No.2, May 2003, pp.17-28.
- "The Product Market and the 'Market for Ideas': Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs," (with Scott Stern), Research Policy, Vol.32, No.2, February, 2003, pp.333-350.
- "When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?" (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), RAND Journal of Economics Vol.33, No.4, 2002, pp.571-586. Click here for NBER Working Paper (February, 2000)
- "Innovation and Market Structure in General Equilibrium," (with Robin Stonecash), Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honor of Murray Kemp, A. Woodland (ed.), Edward Elgar: Cheltnam, 2002, pp.181-191
- "Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction," (with Scott Stern) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol.9, No.4, pp.485-511, 2000. "A Strategic Theory of In-House Research and Development," in S. MacDonald and J. Nightingale (eds.), Information and Organization: A Tribute to the Work of Don Lamberton, Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1999, pp.167-182. [PS]
- "Inside the Black Box: A Look at the Container," Prometheus, Vol.13, No.2, December, 1995, pp.169-183.
Industrial Organization
- "Exclusionary Contracts and Competition with Large Buyers," (with Stephen King) International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.20, 2002, pp.1363-1381.
- "Price Discrimination with Costless Arbitrage," (with Stephen King), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.25, 2007, pp.431-440. (Published version)
- "Paying for Loyalty: Product Bundling in Oligopoly," (with Stephen King) Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.54, No.1, March 2006, pp.43-62.
- "Measuring Product Diversity" (with Robert Hill), Economics Letters, Vol.55, No.1, 1997, pp.145-150.
Telecommunications Competition and Regulation
- "Wireless Communications," (with Stephen King and Julian Wright), Handbook of Telecommunications
Economics, Volume II, Martin Cave et.al. (eds.), North-Holland: Amsterdam,
2005.
- "Using
'Bill and Keep' Interconnect Arrangements to Soften Network Competition,"
(with Stephen King) Economics Letters, Vol. 71, No.3, June 2001,
pp.413-420.
- "Numbers
to the People: Regulation, Ownership and Local Number Portability," (with Stephen King and Graeme Woodbridge) Information Economics and
Policy, Vol.13, No.2, June 2001, pp.167-180.
- "Regulating
Endogenous Customer Switching Costs," (with Stephen King), Contributions
to Theoretical Economics, Vol.1, Issue 1, 2001, Article 1.
- "Mobile
Network Competition, Customer Ignorance and Fixed-to-Mobile Call Prices" (with
Stephen King), Information Economics and Policy, Vol.12, No.4, 2000,
pp.301-328.
- "Network
Competition and Consumer Churn," Information Economics and Policy,
Vol.12, No.2, 2000, pp.97-110.
Access Regulation and Investment
- "Access Pricing and Infrastructure Investment," in Dewenter, Ralf and Haucap, Justus (eds.) Access Pricing: Theory and
Practice, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2007, Chapter 2.
- "Access Holidays and the Timing of
Infrastructure Investment," (with Stephen King), Economic Record,
Vol.80, No.248, March 2004, pp.89-100.
- "Regulating Private Infrastructure Investment: Optimal Pricing for Access
to Essential Facilities," Journal of Regulatory Economics,
Vol.20, No.2, 2001, pp.167-189.
- "Access Regulation and the Timing of Infrastructure
Investment" (with Philip Williams), Economic Record, Vol.
79, No.229, June 1999, pp.127-138.
Payment Systems
- "Where to next on credit card reforms?" (with Stephen King) Melbourne Review, Vol.4, No.1, May 2008, pp.42-48.
- "A Theoretical Analysis of Credit Card
Reform in Australia," (with Stephen King) Economic Record,
Vol.79, No.247, December
2003, pp.462-472.
- "Approaches to Regulating
Interchange Fees in Payment Systems," (with Stephen King) Review of
Network Economics, Vol.2, No.2, June 2003, pp.125-145.
- "The
Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems," (with Stephen King) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.3, No.1, 2003, Article
1.
- "The
Role of Interchange Fees in Credit Card Associations: Competitive
Analysis and Regulatory Options," (with
Stephen King), Australian Business Law Review, Vol.29, No.2,
April 2001, pp.94-122.
- "Economic Issues Associated with Access to Electronic Payments Systems," (with
Richard Scheelings) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.5, December 1999,
pp.373-390.
Publishing in Economics
- "First Author Conditions" (with Maxim
Engers, Simon Grant,
Stephen King), Journal of Political Economy, Vol.107, No.4,
August 1999, pp.859-883.
- "Why Referees Don't Get Paid (Enough)" (with Maxim
Engers), American
Economic Review, Vol.88, No.5, December 1998, pp.1341-1349. [PS]
- "How Are The Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles By Leading
Economists," (with George Shepherd), Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Vol.8, No.1, Winter, 1994, pp.165-179.
Economic Growth
- "Growth in Australian Cities" (with Rebecca Bradley), Economic
Record, Vol.74 (No.226) September 1998, pp.266-278.
- "Industrialisation with a Menu of Technologies: Appropriate
Technologies and the Big Push", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics,
Vol.9, No.3, 1998, pp.63-78. [PS]
- "Time Lags and Indicative Planning in a Dynamic Model of
Industrialisation," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies,
Vol.12, 1998, pp.103-130. [PS-Paper] [PS-
Figure 1] [PS- Figure2]
- "Industrialization Policy and the Big Push," in
K.J. Arrow
et.al. (eds.), Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, Macmillan: London, 1998,
Chpt 13. [PS]
- "Fixed Cost Assumptions in Industrialisation Theories," Economics
Letters, 56, 1997, pp.111-119. [PS]
- "Urban Productivity and Factor Growth in the Late Nineteenth
Century," (with Raphael Bostic and Scott Stern), Journal of Urban Economics,
Vol. 41, No.1, January 1997, pp.38-55. [PS]
- "Knowledge of Growth and the Growth of Knowledge," Information
Economics and Policy, Vol.4, No.3, 1989-90, pp.201-224.
Game Theory
- "Engendering Change," in
W. Barnett et.al. (eds.), Commerce,
Complexity and Evolution, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2000, Chapter 19,
pp.390-414.
- "Best Replies and Adaptive Learning," Mathematical Social
Sciences, Vol.30, No.3, 1995, pp.221-234.
- "Evolutionary Selection of Beliefs," Economics Letters,
Vol.49, No.1, July, 1995, pp.13-17.
- "Comparative Statics Made Simple: An Introduction to Recent
Advances," Australian Economic Papers, June 1996, pp.81-93.
[PS]
Demography and Birth Timing
- "Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing" (with Andrew Leigh) Journal of Public Economics, (forthcoming).
- "The Millennium Bub," (with Andrew
Leigh) Applied Economics Letters, 2007 (forthcoming).
- "Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences," (with Andrew Leigh
and Elena Varganova), Social Science and Medicine, Vol.65, No.7, October 2007, pp.1458-1465.
- "Unusual Days in Births and Deaths,"
(with Andrew Leigh), The Melbourne Review, 3 (1), May 2007,
pp.72-79.
- "Did the
Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?" (with Andrew
Leigh)
Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy,
Vol.6, No.1, 2006, Article 23.
- "Toying with Death
and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under," (with Andrew Leigh) The
Economists' Voice, Vol.3, Issue 6, 2006.
Other
- "Do Voluntary
Carbon Offsets Work?" The Economists' Voice, Vol.4,
Iss.4, Article 7.
- "Darth Vader and the Hold Up
Problem," Journal of Political Economy, Vol.114, No.2, April,
2006, back page suggestion.
- "Limited Information, the Possibility of Rational Choice, and the
Contingent Valuation Method," International Journal of Social Economics,
Vol.26, Nos.1/2/3, 1999, pp.402-414. [PS]
- "Majority Voting With Single-Crossing Preferences," (with
Michael Smart) Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1), February 1996, pp.219-238.
- "On the Impossibility of Rational Choice Under Incomplete
Information," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.29, No.2,
March, 1996, pp.287-309.
- "Chaos Theory, Nonlinearities and Economics: A Speculative
Note," Economic Papers, Vol.10, No.1, March 1991, pp.40-53.
- "Time and Economics: Reflections on Hawking," Methodus,
Vol.2, No.2, December 1990, pp. 80-81.