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  • "Buyer Power in Merger Control," chapter prepared for the ABA Antitrust Section, Handbook, Issues in Competition Law and Policy, (W.D. Collins, ed., in preparation), 2007.
  • "Upfront Payments and Exclusion in Downstream Markets," (with Leslie M. Marx), Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming in 2007.
  • "Rent Shifting and the Order of Negotiations," (with Leslie Marx), International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming in 2007.
  • "Wholesale Access in Multi-Firm Markets: When is it Profitable to Supply a Competitor?," (with Janusz A. Ordover), International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming in 2007.
  • "Retail Mergers, Buyer Power, and Product Variety," (with Roman Inderst), Economic Journal, 117: 45-67, January 2007.
  • "On the Use of Low-Price Guarantees to Discourage Price-Cutting: A Test for Pairwise Facilitation," with Maria Arbatskaya and Morten Hviid), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24: 1139-1156, November 2006.(pdf file)
  • "Bargaining, Bundling, and Clout: The Portfolio Effects of Horizontal Mergers." (with Daniel P. O'Brien),  Rand Journal of Economics, 36:  573-595, Autumn 2005. (pdf file)

  • "Slotting Allowances and Optimal Product Variety,"  B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, 5, no. 1, article 3.  www.bepress.com, 2005. (pdf file)

  • "Opportunism in Multilateral Vertical Contracting: Nondiscrimination, Exclusivity, and Uniformity: Comment," (with Leslie M. Marx),  American Economic Review 94, 796-801, June 2004.

  • "All-Units Discounts in Retail Contracts," (with Sreya Kolay and Janusz Ordover),  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 13, 429-459, Fall 2004. (pdf file)



  • "On the Incidence and Variety of Low-Price Guarantees," (with Maria Arbatskaya and Morten Hviid), Journal of Law & Economics, 47, 307-332, April 2004. (pdf file)

  • "Slotting Allowances and Optimal Product Variety," forthcoming in one of the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, www.bepress.com, 2003.

  • "Bundling and Menus of Two-Part Tariffs," (with Sreya Kolay), Journal of Industrial Economics, 51, 383-403, September 2003.
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  • "Competitive One-to-One Promotions," (with Z. John Zhang), Management Science, 48, 1143-1160, 2002. (pdf file)
  • "When Good News About Your Rival is Good for You: The Effect of Third-Party Information on the Division of Profit in a Multi-Product Distribution Channel," (with Florian Zettelmeyer), Marketing Science, 21, Summer 2002. (pdf file)
  • "Pay to Switch or Pay to Stay: Price Discrimination in Markets with Switching Costs," (with Z. John Zhang), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 9, 397-424, Fall 2000. (pdf file)
  • "Promises to Match or Beat the Competition: Evidence from Retail Tire Prices," (with Maria Arbatskaya and Morten Hviid), Advances in Applied Microeconomics, 8, 123-138, 1999. (pdf file)
  • "Hassle Costs: The Achilles' Heel of Price-Matching Guarantees," (with Morten Hviid), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, {8}, 489-521, Winter 1999.  (pdf file)
  • "Unequal Treatment of Identical Agents in Cournot Equilibrium," (with Stephen W. Salant), American Economic Review, {89}, 585-604, June 1999. (pdf file)
  • "Predatory Accommodation: Below-Cost Pricing Without Exclusion in Intermediate Goods Markets," (with Leslie M. Marx), Rand Journal of Economics, {30}, 22-43, Spring 1999.  (pdf file)
  • "Optimal Asymmetric Strategies in Research Joint Ventures," (with Stephen W. Salant), International Journal of Industrial Organization, {16}, 195-208, March 1998. (pdf file)
  • "Nonlinear Supply Contracts, Exclusive Dealing, and Equilibrium Market Foreclosure," (with Daniel P. O'Brien), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, {6}, 755-785, Winter 1997. (pdf file)
  • "Competitive Coupon Targeting," (with Z. John Zhang), Marketing Science, {14}, 395-416, Fall 1995. (pdf file)
  • "On Vertical Restrictions and the Number of Franchises: Comment," Southern Economic Journal, {62}, 264-268, July 1995.
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  • "Rendering Alternative Offerings Less Profitable with Resale Price Maintenance," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, {3}, 639-662, Winter 1994.  (pdf file)
  • "The Welfare Effects of Forbidding Discriminatory Discounts: A Secondary-Line Analysis of the Robinson-Patman Act,'' (with Daniel P. O'Brien), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, {10}, 296-318, October 1994.  (pdf file)
  • "On the Dampening-of-Competition Effect of Exclusive Dealing,'' (with Daniel P. O'Brien), Journal of Industrial Economics,{41}, 215-221, June 1993.  (pdf file)
  • "Vertical Control with Bilateral Contracts,'' (with Daniel P. O'Brien), Rand Journal of Economics, {23}, 299-308, Autumn 1992.  (pdf file)
  • "Capturing Strategic Rent: Full-line Forcing, Brand Discounts, Aggregate Rebates and Maximum Resale Price Maintenance,'' Journal of Industrial Economics, {39}, 557-575, September 1991.  (pdf file)
  • "Slotting Allowances and Resale Price Maintenance: A Comparison of Facilitating Practices,'' Rand Journal of Economics, {22}, 120-135, Spring 1991. (pdf file)