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Journal Articles

“Excise Taxes with Multi-Product Transactions,” forthcoming in the American Economic Review.

“Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control,” (with Rob Innes), forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics.

“Informative Advertising in Concentrated, Differentiated Markets,” forthcoming in the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

“Unintended Consequences: The Spillover Effects of Common Property Regulations,” (with Gordon Rausser, Marty Kovach, and Ryan Stifter), forthcoming in Marine Policy.

“Marketable Permits, Low-Sulfur Coal, and the Behavior of Railroads” (with Shelby Gerking), forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

“Fast Food, Addiction and Market Power,” (with Tim Richards and Paul Patterson), 

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 32(3), December 2007, pp. 425-47.

“Environmental Regulations, Illicit Behavior, and Equilibrium Fraud” (with David Zilberman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52(3), November 2006, pp 627-44.

“Rivalry in Price and Variety among Supermarket Retailers,” (with Tim Richards), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 88(3), August 2006, pp. 710-27.

“Naked Slotting Fees for Vertical Control in Multi-Product Retail Markets,” (with Robert Innes), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24(2), March 2006, pp 308-18.

“The Transition from Dirty to Clean Industries: Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Two Sector Model of Endogenous Growth,” (with Steven Cassou), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 48(3), November 2004, pp. 1050-77.

“Vertical Structure and Strategic Environmental Trade Policy,” (with Till Requate), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47(2), March 2004, pp. 260-69.

“Slotting Allowances as a Facilitating Practice by Food Processors in Wholesale Grocery Markets: Profitability and Welfare Effects,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(4), November 2003, lead article, pp. 797-813.

“Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety,” (with David Sunding, and David Zilberman), Journal of Public Economics 87(3-4), March 2003, pp. 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), October 2002, pp. 135-57.

“Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade in Asymmetric Oligopoly Markets,” (with Yann Duval), International Tax and Public Finance 9(3), May 2002, pp. 259-71.

“Product Liability, Entry Incentives and Market Structure,” (with David Sunding), International Review of Law and Economics 20(2), June 2000, pp. 269-83.

“Vertical Coordination, Antritrust Law, and International Trade,” (with Kyle Stiegert), Journal of Law & Economics 43(1), April 2000, pp.  143-56.

“Does Market Timing Contribute to the Cattle Cycle,” (with Terry Kastens), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(1), February 2000, pp. 82-96.

“The Comparative Incidence of Specific and Ad Valorem Taxation in Noncompetitive Environments,” Economics Letters 63(2), May 1999, pp. 235-38.

“Tax Incidence under Oligopoly: A Comparison of Policy Approaches,” Journal of Public Economics 71(2), February 1999, pp. 233-46.

“Demand Shifts and Market Structure in Free-Entry Oligopoly Equilibria,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 17(2), February 1999, pp. 259-75.

“Returns to Public Investments in Agriculture with Imperfect Downstream Competition,” (with David Sunding), American Journal of Agricultural Economics80(4), November 1998, 830-38.

“Taxation, Fines, and Producer Liability Rules: Efficiency and Market Structure Implications,” Southern Economic Journal 65(1), July 1998, pp. 140-50.

“Subsidies in Oligopoly Markets: A Welfare Comparison between Symmetric and Asymmetric Costs,” (with Rickard Sandin), Public Finance Review 25(6), November 1997, pp. 660-68.

“The Effect of Farm Supply Shifts on Concentration and Market Power in the Food Processing Sector,” (with David Sunding), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79(2), May 1997, pp. 524-31.

Book Chapters:

“Backwards Linkages and Strategic Firm Behavior: An Application to International Trade,” (with Kyle Stiegert), in G. Galizzi and L. Venturini (Eds.), Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 1999, pp. 113-28.

Other Publications:

“Microeconomics” (book review) in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 1999, 81(4), pp. 983-4.