Stephen F. Hamilton      

Department of Economics   

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 Fields of Interest
  • Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Public Economics

Academic Background

  • PhD: University of California at Berkeley -1996
  • MS:  University of California at Berkeley -1994
  • BA: University of California Santa Barbara -1991

Awards and Honors

  • Editorial Council, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008-

  • Editorial Council, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009-present
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Organization Education, 2005-
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2003-
  • Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001-2005.

  • Invited participant, NBER Summer Workshops on Environmental Economics, 2004-

  • Invited Speaker, Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry, INRA-IDEI, Toulouse, France, 2004.
  • Fellow, Rural Development Research Consortium, 2002-
  • Keynote Speaker, International Dimension of Environmental Policy, Dutch Science Foundation/EURESCO, Kerkrade, Holland, 2000.
  • Early Career Award for Outstanding Research, Gamma Sigma Delta, 1999.
  • Faculty of the Semester Award for Undergraduate Instruction, Kansas State University, 1998.

Selected Publications

  • “Variety Competition in Retail Markets,” (with Tim Richards), forthcoming in Management Science.

  • “Excise Taxes with Multi-Product Transactions,” American Economic Review, 99(1), March 2009, pp. 458-71.

  • “Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control,” (with Rob Innes), RAND Journal of Economics, 40(1), Spring 2009, pp. 120-43.

  • “Informative Advertising in Concentrated, Differentiated Markets,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27(1), January 2009, pp. 60-69.

  • “Unintended Consequences: The Spillover Effects of Common Property Regulations,” (with Gordon Rausser, Marty Kovach, and Ryan Stifter), Marine Policy, 33 (1), January 2009, pp. 24-39.

  • “Marketable Permits, Low-Sulfur Coal, and the Behavior of Railroads” (with Shelby Gerking), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(4), November 2008, pp. 933-50.

  • “Environmental Regulations, Illicit Behavior, and Equilibrium Fraud” (with David Zilberman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52(3), November 2006, pp 627-644.

  • “Naked Slotting Fees for Vertical Control in Multi-Product Retail Markets,” (with Robert Innes), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24(2), March 2006, pp 308-318.

  • “Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety,” (with David L. Sunding and David Zilberman), Journal of Public Economics 87(3-4), 2003, 799-817.

  • “An Empirical Test of the Rent-Shifting Hypothesis: The Case of State Trading Enterprises,” (with Kyle Stiegert) Journal of International Economics 58(1), 2002, 135-157.

  • “Vertical Coordination, Antritrust Law, and International Trade,” (with Kyle Stiegert), Journal of Law & Economics 43(1), 2000, 143-156.