Working Papers

• “Preferences, Prices, and Performance in Monopoly and Duopoly” (with Michael Riordan), working paper, 2009.
• “Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Heterogeneous Searchers” (with Tianle Zhang), 2009.
• “Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare” (with David Sappington), working paper, 2008.
• “Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing” (with Ig Horstmann and James Markusen), working paper, 2008
• “Product Innovation Incentives: Monopoly vs. Competition” (with Marius Schwartz), working paper, 2009.
• “Dynamic Pricing: When to Entice Brand Switching and When to Reward Consumer Loyalty” (with Jason Pearcy), working paper, 2006, revised and resubmitted to RAND Journal of Economics, 2009.
• “Selling Your Product through Competitors' Retail Outlets’’ (with Sridhar Moorthy), working paper, 2006.
• “Paid-Placement: Advertising and Search on the Internet” (with Chuan He), working paper, 2006.

Publications

• 36. “The Effects of Competition on the Price for Cable Modem Internet Access” (with Scott Savage), NET Institute working paper, 07-13, 2007, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• 35 “Innovation in Vertically Related Markets” (with David Sappington), working paper, 2008, Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
• 34. “Inattentive Consumers and Product Quality” (with Mark Armstrong), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 7, pp. 411-422, 2009.
• 33. “Designing Input Prices to Motivate Innovation” (with David Sappington), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 27, pp. 390-402, 2009.
• 32. "Price-Increasing Competition" (with Michael Riordan), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 1042-1058, 2008.
• 31. “Ownership, Location and Prices in Chinese Electronic Commerce Markets”, (with Zhao, Dongmei and Scott Savage), Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 20, pp. 192-207, 2008.
• 30. "Buyer Investment, Export Variety, and Intrafirm Trade" (with Robert Feenstra), NBER Working Paper # 11752, European Economic Review, Vol. 52, pp. 1313-1337, 2008.
• 29. “Dynamic Price Discrimination with Asymmetric Firms”, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 56, pp. 729-751, 2008.
• 28. “Vertical Contracting Between Airlines: An Equilibrium Analysis of Codeshare Alliances” (with Philip Gayle), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007.
• 27. "Price and Variety in the Spokes Model" (with Michael Riordan), The Economic Journal, Vol. 117, pp. 897-921, 2007.
• 26. "Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and ex post Cartelization" (with Michael Riordan), RAND Journal of Economics, Vo. 38, pp. 1-21, 2007. Web Appendix
• 25. “Oligopoly Price Discrimination by Purchase History”, in Pros and Cons of Price Discrimination, Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm, 2005.
• 24. "Market Design with Correlated Valuations" (with Ruqu Wang), Economica, Vol. 73, pp. 659-672, 2006.
• 23. "Marketing Innovation", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 15, 101-123, 2006.
• 22. "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Developing Countries" (with T. Puttitanun), Journal of Development Economics, 78, 474-493, 2005.
• 21. "Vertical Pricing and Parallel Imports" (with Keith Maskus), Journal of International Trade and Development, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 1-18, 2005.
• 20. "Do Economics Departments Search Optimally in Faculty Recruiting?" (with Terra Mckinnish), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 43, pp. 676-688, 2005.
• 19. "Vertical Disintegration", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 14, pp. 209-229, 2005.
• 18. "Equilibrium Selling Mechanisms" (with R. Wang), Annals of Economics and Finance, Vol. 5, pp. 335-355, 2004.
• 17. "Trade Liberalization and Strategic Outsourcing" (with Jota Ishikawa and Zhihao Yu), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 63, pp. 419-436, 2004.
• 16. "Vertical Price Control and Parallel Imports: Theory and Evidence" (with K. Maskus), Review of International Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 551-570, 2004.
• 15. "A Model of Competing Selling Mechanisms" (with R. Wang), Economic Letters. Vol. 85, pp. 151-155, 2004.
• 14. "Parallel Imports in a Model of Vertical Distribution: Theory, Evidence, and Policy" (with K. Maskus), Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 7, pp.319-334, 2002.
• 13. "On Vertical Mergers and Their Competitive Effects", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 32, pp. 667-685, 2001. Reprinted in: George Norman (eds), Recent Developments in Monopoly and Competition Policy, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Volume 217, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
• 12. "Equilibrium Cost Overruns" (with Ron Smith), Annals of Economics and Finance, Vol. 2, pp. 401-414, 2001.
• 11. "Strategic Bidding by Potential Competitors: Will Monopoly Persist?" Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. XLVIII, pp. 161-175, 2000.
• 10. "Promises, Trust, and Contracts", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 16, pp. 209-232, 2000.
• 9. "Oligopoly Price Discrimination and Resale Price Maintenance", RAND Journal of Economics, 30, 441-455, 1999.
• 8. "Learning Buyers’ Valuation Distribution in Posted-Price Selling" (with Ruqu Wang), Economic Theory, 14, 417-428, 1999.
• 7. "Paying Customers to Switch", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 6, 877-897, 1997.
• 6. "Multidimensional Signaling and Diversification", RAND Journal of Economics, 28, 168-187, 1997.
• 5. "Equilibrium Product Bundling", Journal of Business, 70, 85-103, 1997.
• 4. "On the Use of Ceiling-Price Commitments by Monopolists" (with Robert Rosenthal), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 27, 207-220, 1996.
• 3. "Dynamic Duopoly with Slowly Changing Customer Loyalties" (with Robert Rosenthal), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 14, 269-296, 1996.
• 2. "Asking Prices as Commitment Devices" (with Robert Rosenthal), International Economic Review, 37, 129-155, 1996.
• 1. "Conflicting Interests in Information Disclosure and Short-term Orientation of Firms", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 12, 211-225, 1994.