Publications

14. "Is the Effect of Competition on Price Dispersion Non-Monotonic? Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry" (with Mian Dai and Konstantinos Serfes), conditionally accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics. SSRN.

13. "Tacit Collusion with Low-Price Guarantees," forthcoming, Manchester School. SSRN .

12. "Information Markets, Product Markets, and Vertical Merger" (with Susan Chen). forthcoming, Journal of Economics and Finance. SSRN,   Springer.

11. "The Effect of Most-Favored Customer Clauses on Prices," (with Susan Chen), Journal of Industrial Economics, v59, 343-371 (lead article), 2011. SSRN,   Wiley.

10. "Loyalty Rewards Facilitate Tacit Collusion" (with Yuk-fai Fong), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, v20, 739-775 (2011). SSRN,   Wiley.

            Featured in "Membership Has Its Punishments," Kellogg Insight January 2010, and reprinted in Morningstar, January 4, 2010.

9. "Third-degree price discrimination," (with Konstantinos Serfes), Journal of Industrial Organization Education Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 5 (2010).

8. "Consumer sorting of vertically differentiated goods," (with Peyton Ferrier), Economics Letters, v109, 11-13 (2010). SSRN,   ScienceDirect.

7. "Pricing-to-market: Price discrimination or product differentiation?" (with Nathalie Lavoie), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v89, 571-581 (2007). SSRN,   Oxford Journals.

6. "Product customization," (with Dan Bernhardt and Konstantinos Serfes), European Economic Review, v51, 1396-1422 (2007). SSRN,   ScienceDirect.

5. "Market segmentation and collusive behavior," (with Konstantinos Serfes), International Journal of Industrial Organization, v25, 355-378 (2007). SSRN,   ScienceDirect.

4. "Customer information sharing among rival firms" (with Konstantinos Serfes), European Economic Review, v50, 1571-1600 (2006). SSRN,   ScienceDirect.

3. "Imperfect price discrimination, market structure and efficiency" (with Konstantinos Serfes), Canadian Journal of Economics, v38, 1191-1203 (2005). SSRN,   JSTOR.

2. "Imperfect Price Discrimination in a Vertical Differentiation Model" (with Konstantinos Serfes), International Journal of Industrial Organization, v23, 341-354 (2005).

1. "Quality of information and oligopolistic price discrimination" (with Konstantinos Serfes), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, v13, n4, 671-702 (2004).


Working Papers by Topics

Multi-dimensional Product Differentiation

"Endogenous Multi-Dimensional Price Discrimination" (with Jie Shuai), March 2012.

"How (Not) to Price Discriminate" (with Jie Shuai), January 2012.

"Multi-dimensional Product Differentiation" (with Jie Shuai), March 2012.

Low-price guarantees

"Price-Matching, Quality Free-Riding and Predation," June 2011.

"Price levels, Price Dynamics, and Low-Price Guarantees," (with Susan Chen), preliminary draft available upon request.

Product Differentiation and Pricing

"Price discrimination in two-sided markets" (with Konstantinos Serfes), revise and resubmit, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

"Optimal product differentiation in a circular model," (with Qiang Gong and Yi Zhang), April 2012.

"Committing not to serve a monopoly market," August 2011.

"Customer poaching and coupon trading," (with Georgia Kosmopoulou and Jie Shuai), December 2010. Extensions.

Signaling/Market for Consumer Information

"Efficiency, Welfare and Ownership of Private Information," (with Konstantinos Serfes), March 2009.