Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• Auctions and Procurements
• Collusion
• Applied Microeconomics
• Game Theory

Recent Publications:

"Inefficiency of Collusion at English Auctions," 2005, (with Lopomo, Guiseppe and Leslie M. Marx), forthcoming in Contributions to Theoretical Economics.

"Pattern Bargaining," (with A. Merlo), 2004, International Economic Review, Vol 45, No.1. February, p. 239-255.

"Bidder Collusion and Antitrust Law: Refining the Analysis of Price Fixing to Account for the Special Features of Auction Markets," (with M. J. Meurer), 2004, Antitrust Law Journal,Vol 72, Issue 1, p. 83-118.

"The Economics of Bidder Collusion," (with M.J. Meurer), in Game Theory and Business Applications, K. Chatterjee and W.F. Samuelson (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2001.

"Strategic Information Generation and Transmissions: The Evolution of Institutions in DoD Operational Testing," (with E. Gaier), 1998, appeared in Statistics, Testing and Defense Acquisition: Background Papers, M. Cohen, J. Rolph and D. Staffey (eds.), National Academy Press.

"Bidder Collusion at Forest Service Timber Auctions," (with L.H. Baldwin and J-F. Richard), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 105, No. 4, August 1997, p. 657-699.

"Lift-Lining," (with D.A. Graham and J-F. Richard), Advances in Applied Micro-Economics, 6, 1996, p. 15-40.

Research in Progress:

• Empirical Models of Auctions and Procurements

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