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Working Papers

2016

1. Complementarity without Superadditivity
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Complementarity without superadditivity, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2017) View citations (1) (2017)
2. Net Neutrality, Pricing Instruments and Incentives
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2011

3. Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy Workshop
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

2009

4. Efficient Division of Profits from Complementary Innovations
   Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
   Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2009) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Efficient division of profits from complementary innovations, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier (2011) View citations (22) (2011)
5. Information and the Hold-Up Problem
   Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (18)
   See also Journal Article Information and the hold‐up problem, RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation (2009) View citations (16) (2009)

2007

6. Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling
   Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley
   Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2007)
   See also Journal Article Should good patents come in small packages? A welfare analysis of intellectual property bundling, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier (2006) View citations (6) (2006)

2006

7. Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two-Sided Benefits
   Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two‐Sided Benefits, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2011) View citations (13) (2011)
8. The Economics of Product-Line Restrictions With an Application to the Network Neutrality Debate
   Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley
   See also Journal Article The economics of product-line restrictions with an application to the network neutrality debate, Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier (2007) View citations (99) (2007)
9. The Economics of Welfare Standards in Antitrust
   Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (61)

2005

10. Merger Analysis and the Treatment of Uncertainty: Should We Expect Better?
    Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics
11. Sender or Receiver: Who should pay to Exchange an Electronic Messages?
    Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation
    See also Journal Article Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?, RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation (2004) View citations (56) (2004)

2004

12. Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    See also Chapter Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations (18) (2005)

2003

13. Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets
    Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
    Also in Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2000) View citations (87)
    Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2000) View citations (89)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2000) View citations (87)
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany (2001)
    See also Journal Article Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets, Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2000) View citations (74) (2000)
14. Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (8)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2002) View citations (1)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2002) View citations (1)
    Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2002) View citations (1)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2002) View citations (1)

2002

15. Competition or Predation? Schumpeterian Rivalry in Network Markets
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (5)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2001) View citations (3)
    Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2001) View citations (3)
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2001) View citations (3)

2001

16. An Economist's Guide to U.S. v Microsoft
    Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series, Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (8)
    Also in Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2001) View citations (18)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2001) View citations (11)
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany (2001) View citations (17)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2001) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2001) View citations (22) (2001)

2000

17. Corporate Diversification
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
18. Corporate Diversification and Agency
    Research Program in Finance, Working Paper Series, Research Program in Finance, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (4)
    Also in Finance, University Library of Munich, Germany (2000) View citations (7)
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (1994) View citations (1)
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany (1996)
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2000) View citations (5)
    Research Program in Finance Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2000) View citations (5)
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1994) View citations (1)

1991

19. Contracting Between Sophisticated Parties: A More Complete View of Incomplete Contracts and Their Breach
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations (1)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1991) View citations (1)
20. Game-Playing Agents: Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations (230)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1991) View citations (233)
    See also Journal Article Game-Playing Agents: Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments, RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation (1991) View citations (225) (1991)

1990

21. Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations (7)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1990) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency, Econometrica, Econometric Society (1991) View citations (101) (1991)

1989

22. Moral Hazard and Verifiability
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

1983

23. Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (41)
    See also Journal Article Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model, Public Finance Review (1985) View citations (83) (1985)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Does it Matter if Competition is “Fair” or “on the Merits”? An Application to Platform Self-Preferencing
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2025, 66, (1), 43-70

2022

2. Dynamic merger policy and pre-merger product choice by an entrant
   International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022, 81, (C) View citations (6)

2021

3. Big Tech mergers: Innovation, competition for the market, and the acquisition of emerging competitors
   Information Economics and Policy, 2021, 54, (C) View citations (23)

2019

4. Multisided Platforms, Big Data, and a Little Antitrust Policy
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2019, 54, (4), 695-716 View citations (8)
5. Platform economics and antitrust enforcement: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2019, 28, (1), 138-152 View citations (11)

2017

6. Complementarity without superadditivity
   Economics Letters, 2017, 151, (C), 28-30 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Complementarity without Superadditivity, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)
7. Wither U.S. Net Neutrality Regulation?
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2017, 50, (4), 441-468 View citations (2)

2016

8. Weak versus strong net neutrality: correction and clarification
   Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2016, 50, (1), 99-110 View citations (11)

2013

9. Product Differentiation through Exclusivity: Is there a One‐Market‐Power‐Rent Theorem?
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22, (1), 1-27 View citations (8)
10. Provider competition and healthcare quality: More bang for the buck?
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013, 31, (5), 612-625 View citations (18)

2011

11. Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two‐Sided Benefits
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2011, 20, (2), 379-408 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two-Sided Benefits, Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series (2006) View citations (5) (2006)
12. Efficient division of profits from complementary innovations
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011, 29, (4), 443-454 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper Efficient Division of Profits from Complementary Innovations, Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series (2009) View citations (1) (2009)
13. Insurance, Consumer Choice, and the Equilibrium Price and Quality of Hospital Care
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2011, 11, (2), 44 View citations (14)

2010

14. A simple test for distinguishing between internal reference price theories
    Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), 2010, 8, (3), 303-332 View citations (12)

2009

15. Information and the hold‐up problem
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, 40, (3), 405-423 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Information and the Hold-Up Problem, Department of Economics, Working Paper Series (2009) View citations (18) (2009)

2007

16. The economics of product-line restrictions with an application to the network neutrality debate
    Information Economics and Policy, 2007, 19, (2), 215-248 View citations (99)
    See also Working Paper The Economics of Product-Line Restrictions With an Application to the Network Neutrality Debate, Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series (2006) (2006)

2006

17. Observable Contracts as Commitments: Interdependent Contracts and Moral Hazard
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2006, 15, (3), 685-706 View citations (19)
18. Privacy, property rights and efficiency: The economics of privacy as secrecy
    Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), 2006, 4, (3), 209-239 View citations (80)
19. Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2006, 44, (3), 662-693
20. Should good patents come in small packages? A welfare analysis of intellectual property bundling
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2006, 24, (5), 931-952 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling, Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series (2007) (2007)
21. Your network or mine? The economics of routing rules
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2006, 37, (3), 692-719 View citations (11)

2005

22. COMPETITION OR PREDATION? CONSUMER COORDINATION, STRATEGIC PRICING AND PRICE FLOORS IN NETWORK MARKETS*
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2005, 53, (2), 203-231 View citations (17)
23. Theory-Driven Choice Models
    Marketing Letters, 2005, 16, (3), 225-237 View citations (6)
24. What do we know about interchange fees and what does it mean for public policy?: commentary on Evans and Schmalensee
    Proceedings – Payments System Research Conferences, 2005, (May), 121-137 View citations (6)

2004

25. Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2004, 35, (3), 423-447 View citations (56)
    See also Working Paper Sender or Receiver: Who should pay to Exchange an Electronic Messages?, Working Paper Series (2005) (2005)

2002

26. Recent Antitrust Enforcement Actions by the U.S. Department of Justice: A Selective Survey of Economic Issues
    Review of Industrial Organization, 2002, 21, (4), 373-397 View citations (1)

2001

27. An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001, 15, (2), 25-44 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper An Economist's Guide to U.S. v Microsoft, Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series (2001) View citations (8) (2001)

2000

28. Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2000, 48, (4), 413-432 View citations (74)
    See also Working Paper Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets, Development and Comp Systems (2003) View citations (2) (2003)

1997

29. Introduction: Convergence, Regulation, and Competition
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, 6, (4), 701-18 View citations (1)
30. Ongoing reform of U.S. telecommunications policy
    European Economic Review, 1997, 41, (3-5), 681-690 View citations (2)
31. Regulation to promote competition: A first look at the FCC's implementation of the local competition provisions of the telecommunications act of 1996
    Information Economics and Policy, 1997, 9, (2), 103-117 View citations (3)

1996

32. An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 111, (2), 277-317 View citations (229)
33. Remarks on the Economic Implications of Convergence
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (4), 1079-95 View citations (23)

1994

34. Systems Competition and Network Effects
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (2), 93-115 View citations (633)

1993

35. Judicial Modification of Contracts between Sophisticated Parties: A More Complete View of Incomplete Contracts and Their Breach
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1993, 9, (2), 230-55 View citations (77)

1992

36. Product Introduction with Network Externalities
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 1992, 40, (1), 55-83 View citations (192)

1991

37. Game-Playing Agents: Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1991, 22, (3), 307-328 View citations (225)
    See also Working Paper Game-Playing Agents: Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments, Economics Working Papers (1991) View citations (230) (1991)
38. Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency
    Econometrica, 1991, 59, (6), 1735-53 View citations (101)
    See also Working Paper Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency, Economics Working Papers (1990) View citations (7) (1990)

1990

39. R&D Cooperation and Competition
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1990, 21, (1990 Microeconomics), 137-203 View citations (132)

1987

40. R&D Rivalry with Licensing or Imitation
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (3), 402-20 View citations (147)
41. The Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination in
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (1), 154-67 View citations (164)

1986

42. An Analysis of Cooperative Research and Development
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1986, 17, (4), 527-543 View citations (373)
43. How to License Intangible Property
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986, 101, (3), 567-589 View citations (301)
44. Product Compatibility Choice in a Market with Technological Progress
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1986, 38, 146-65 View citations (75)
45. Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities
    Journal of Political Economy, 1986, 94, (4), 822-41 View citations (739)

1985

46. Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (3), 424-40 View citations (1775)
47. On the Licensing of Innovations
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1985, 16, (4), 504-520 View citations (305)
48. Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
    Public Finance Review, 1985, 13, (1), 3-20 View citations (83)
    See also Working Paper Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model, NBER Working Papers (1983) View citations (41) (1983)

1984

49. Firm-Specific Differentiation and Competition among Multiproduct Firms
    The Journal of Business, 1984, 57, (1), S149-66 View citations (40)
50. Nonuniform Pricing with Unobservable Numbers of Purchases
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1984, 51, (3), 461-470 View citations (2)
51. Price Discrimination and Monopolistic Competition
    Econometrica, 1984, 52, (6), 1453-71 View citations (38)

1983

52. A general analysis of the Averch-Johnson effect
    Economics Letters, 1983, 11, (3), 279-283 View citations (2)
53. Non-uniform Pricing, Output and Welfare under Monopoly
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1983, 50, (1), 37-56 View citations (19)
54. Plea Bargaining and Social Welfare
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (4), 749-57 View citations (85)
55. The socialization of commodities
    Journal of Public Economics, 1983, 20, (3), 347-356 View citations (7)

1980

56. Multiplant Monopoly in a Spatial Market
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1980, 11, (2), 519-535 View citations (13)

Chapters

2014

1. How Can Competition Policy and Competition-Policy Economics Contribute to Solving the Healthcare Crisis?
   Chapter 11 in THE ANALYSIS OF COMPETITION POLICY AND SECTORAL REGULATION, 2014, pp 279-338

2005

2. Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?
   A chapter in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 5, 2005, pp 109-165 View citations (18)
   See also Working Paper Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (9) (2004)

2004

3. Antitrust or regulation? US public policy in telecommunications markets
   Chapter 13 in The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation in Telecommunications, 2004

1989

4. Vertical contractual relations
   Chapter 11 in Handbook of Industrial Organization, 1989, vol. 1, pp 655-721 View citations (124)