Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His research is in applied game theory looking at issues such as innovation, regulation, competition policy, environmental economics and public economics. This site contains links to his papers and writings.

Recent

Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication (with Fiona Murray and Scott Stern)
Collusion at the Extensive Margin (with Martin Byford)
The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media (with Susan Athey and Emilio Calvano)
“Innovation and Climate Change Policy,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012.

Links

• SSRN
• Economics Papers
• Scribd

Teaching Cases, Grants and Awards

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Innovation

Working Papers

• Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication (with Fiona Murray and Scott Stern), 2011
• Start-Up Commercialization Strategy and Innovative Dynamics (previous version: Negotiating for the Market, May 2009), 2011
• Innovation Incentives under Transferable Fast-Track Regulatory Review (with David Ridley), 2012
• Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work: Collaboration and Scientific Reward (with Michael Bikard and Fiona Murray), 2013.
• The Dynamics of Intellectual Property Practices, 2005
• The Economics of User-Based Innovation (with Scott Stern), 1998
• Does Venture-Backed Investment in Start-Ups Drive Incumbent Innovation? Evidence from the Computer, Semiconductor and Pharmaceutical Industries (with Setio Anggoro Dewo and Joseph Hirschberg), 2006

Published

• “Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy,” (with Lars Persson), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013 (forthcoming).
• “Innovation and Climate Change Policy,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(4), 2012, pp.125-145. (Mention in Science, 14 Dec 2012)
• “Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio,” (with Fiona Murray), Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, J. Lerner and S. Stern (eds), NBER, 2012, Chapter 1.
• “How Does the Republic of Science Shape the Patent System? Broadening the Institutional Analysis of Policy Levers for Innovation and Knowledge Disclosure,” (with Fiona Murray and Mackey Craven), UC Irvine Law Review, Vol.1 No.2, 2011, pp.359-395.
• “Designing Markets for Ideas,” (with Scott Stern) in The Handbook of Market Design (Edited by Zvika Neeman, Muriel Niederle, Nir Vulkan, and Al Roth ), Oxford University Press, 2011.
• “Economic Approaches to Understanding and Promoting Innovation,” in L. Mann and J. Chan (eds), Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond, Routledge: London, 2010, pp.82-104.
• “When is Static Analysis a Sufficient Proxy for Dynamic Considerations? Reconsidering Innovation and Antitrust,” in J. Lerner and S. Stern (eds), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol.11, 2010 (forthcoming).
• “Is there a market for ideas?” (with Scott Stern) Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol.19, No.3, 2010, pp.805-837.
• “A Dearth of Exit Strategies,” Sloan Management Review, Spring 2009, pp.19-20.
• “The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence for Patent Grant Delays” (with David Hsu and Scott Stern),Management Science, Vol.54, No.5, May 2008, pp.982-997.
• “Patent Length and the Timing of Innovative Activity,” (with Stephen King), Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.55, No.4, December, 2007, pp.772-772.
• “Patent Renewal Fees and Self-Funded Patent Offices,” (with Stephen King and Ryan Lampe), Topics in Theoretical Economics, Vol.4, No.1, 2004, Article 6.
• “When Does Funding Research by Small Firms Bear Fruit? Evidence from the SBIR Program,” (with Scott Stern), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol.12, No.4, 2003, pp.361-384.  Click here for NBER Working Paper (February 2000).
• “Managing Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Biotechnology,” The ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol.2, No.2, May 2003, pp.17-28.
• “The Product Market and the ‘Market for Ideas’: Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs,” (with Scott Stern), Research Policy, Vol.32, No.2, February, 2003, pp.333-350.
• “When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?” (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), RAND Journal of Economics Vol.33, No.4, 2002, pp.571-586.  Click here for NBER Working Paper (February, 2000)
• “Innovation and Market Structure in General Equilibrium,” (with Robin Stonecash), Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honor of Murray Kemp, A. Woodland (ed.), Edward Elgar: Cheltnam, 2002, pp.181-191
• “Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction,” (with Scott Stern) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol.9, No.4, pp.485-511, 2000.
• “A Strategic Theory of In-House Research and Development,” in S. MacDonald and J. Nightingale (eds.), Information and Organization: A Tribute to the Work of Don Lamberton, Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1999, pp.167-182.
• “Inside the Black Box: A Look at the Container,” Prometheus, Vol.13, No.2, December, 1995, pp.169-183.

Platforms & Media

Working Papers

• The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media (with Susan Athey and Emilio Calvano), November 2012. (Video Seminar: Berkeley iSchool, March 2013).

Published

• “How Partisan is the Press: Multiple Measures of Media Slant” (with Andrew Leigh), Economic Record, Volume 88, Issue 280, pages 127–147, March 2012.
• “Mobile Application Pricing,” Information Economics and Policy,Vol.24, No.1, March 2012, pp.52-59.
• “Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content,” (with Simon Anderson) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.3, No.4, November 2011, pp.1-34.
• “The Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition“ (with Susan Athey), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Vol.100, No.2, May 2010, pp.608-613.
• “Price Signals in Two-Sided Markets” Competition Policy International, July 2010.
• “What is different about media mergers?” (with Simon Anderson), The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.2, November 2006, pp.32-36.
• “The Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems,” (with Stephen King) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.3, No.1, 2003, Article 1.

Bargaining & Theory of the Firm

Working Papers

• When Will Efficient Ownership Arise? Trading over Property Rights, 2005
• Intrafirm Bargaining with Heterogeneous Replacement Workers (with Catherine de Fontenay), 2005
• Operationalizing Value-Based Business Strategy (with Glenn MacDonald and Michael Ryall)
• The Allocation of Decisions in Organizations (with Susan Athey, Scott Shaefer and Scott Stern)

Published

• “Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities,” Journal of Industrial Economics (with Catherine de Fontenay), forthcoming. (click here for 2008 Working Paper version)
• “A Bargaining Perspective on Strategic Outsourcing and Supply Competition,” (with Catherine de Fontenay), Strategic Management Journal, Vol.29, No.8, August 2008, pp.819-839.
• “Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.50, No.4, November 2007, pp.661-680.
• “Introduction to Special Issue on “Negotiations and Cooperative Arrangements in Industrial Organization,” (with Roman Inderst) International Journal of Industrial Organization,Vol.25, No.5, October 2007, pp.879-883.
• “Vertical Contracting when Competition for Orders Precedes Procurement,” Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.55, No.2., June 2007, pp.335-346.
• “Inefficient Ownership and Resale Opportunities,” Economics Letters, Vol.93, 2006, pp.242-247.
• “Markets for Ownership,” RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.2, 2005, pp.433-455.  For previous version with re-sale model, click here.
• “Optional Fixed Fees in Multilateral Vertical Relations,” (with Catherine de Fontenay)  Economics Letters, Vol.88, 2005, pp.184-189.
• “Vertical Integration and Competition Between Networks,” (with Catherine de Fontenay), Review of Network Economics, Vol.4, No.1, March 2005, pp.4-18.  (Here is the 2001 Version: Extending Market Power through Vertical Integration)
• “Vertical Integration in the Presence of Upstream Competition,” (with Catherine de Fontenay), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.3, 2005, pp.544-572.  For previous working paper version, click here. [Correction: Click here to download corrected Tables 1 and 2]
• “Can Vertical Integration by a Monopsonist Harm Consumer Welfare?“ (with Catherine de Fontenay), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2004, pp. 821-834.
• “A Technological and Organisational Explanation of the Size Distribution of Firms,” (with John Quiggin), Small Business Economics, Vol.21, No.3, November 2003, pp. 243-256.
• “Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Comment” (with Catherine de Fontenay), American Economic Review, Vol.93, No.1, 2003, pp.448-455.

Industrial Organisation

 Working Papers

• “The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media“ (with Susan Athey and Emilio Calvano), unpublished, 2012.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” (with Martin Byford), unpublished, 2011.
• “A Comparison of Ex Ante versus Ex Post Vertical Market Power: Evidence for the Electricity Supply Industry,” (with Frank Wolak), unpublished, 2012.

Published

• “Exit Deterrence,” (previously, “Can the Threat of Entry Reduce Competition?”) (with Martin Byford), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming), 2013.
• “Natural Monopoly,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, D. Teece et.al. (eds), Palgrave/MacMillan (f0rthcoming).
• “Intel and Blocking Practices (2010),” The Antitrust Revolution, J.Kwoka and L. White (eds), 6th Edition, (forthcoming).
• “Mobile Application Pricing,” Information Economics and Policy,Vol.24, No.1, March 2012, pp.52-59.
• “How Partisan is the Press: Multiple Measures of Media Slant” (with Andrew Leigh), Economic Record, Volume 88, Issue 280, pages 127–147, March 2012.
• “Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content,” (with Simon Anderson) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.3, No.4, November 2011, pp.1-34.
• “Remedies for Tying in Computer Applications,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29 (5), 2011, pp.505-512.
• “Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use,” (with Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.2, No.3, August 2010, pp.85-105.
• “The Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition“ (with Susan Athey), American Economic Review, Vol.100, No.2, May 2010, pp.608-613.
• “Exclusivity, Competition and the Irrelevance of Internal Investment,” (with Catherine de Fontenay and Vivienne Groves) International Journal of Industrial Organization,Vol.28, No.4, 2010, pp.336-340.
• “Price Discrimination with Costless Arbitrage,” (with Stephen King), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.25, 2007, pp.431-440. (Published version)
• “Paying for Loyalty: Product Bundling in Oligopoly,” (with Stephen King) Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.54, No.1, March 2006, pp.43-62.
• “Exclusionary Contracts and Competition with Large Buyers,” (with Stephen King) International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.20, 2002, pp.1363-1381.
• “Measuring Product Diversity” (with Robert Hill), Economics Letters, Vol.55, No.1, 1997, pp.145-150.

Regulation

Published

• “Access Pricing and Infrastructure Investment,” in Dewenter, Ralf and Haucap, Justus (eds.) Access Pricing: Theory and Practice, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2007, Chapter 2.
• “Wireless Communications,” (with Stephen King and Julian Wright), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume II, Martin Cave et.al. (eds.), North-Holland: Amsterdam, 2005.
• “Access Holidays and the Timing of Infrastructure Investment,” (with Stephen King), Economic Record, Vol.80, No.248, March 2004, pp.89-100.
• “Regulating Private Infrastructure Investment: Optimal Pricing for Access to Essential Facilities,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol.20, No.2, 2001, pp.167-189.
• “Using ‘Bill and Keep’ Interconnect Arrangements to Soften Network Competition,” (with Stephen King) Economics Letters, Vol. 71, No.3, June 2001, pp.413-420.
• “Numbers to the People: Regulation, Ownership and Local Number Portability,” (with Stephen King and Graeme Woodbridge) Information Economics and Policy, Vol.13, No.2, June 2001, pp.167-180.
• “Regulating Endogenous Customer Switching Costs,” (with Stephen King), Contributions to Theoretical Economics, Vol.1, Issue 1, 2001, Article 1.
• “Mobile Network Competition, Customer Ignorance and Fixed-to-Mobile Call Prices” (with Stephen King), Information Economics and Policy, Vol.12, No.4, 2000, pp.301-328.
• “Network Competition and Consumer Churn,” Information Economics and Policy, Vol.12, No.2, 2000, pp.97-110.
• “Access Regulation and the Timing of Infrastructure Investment” (with Philip Williams), Economic Record, Vol. 79, No.229, June 1999, pp.127-138.

Payment Systems

• “Price Signals in Two-Sided Markets” Competition Policy International, July 2010.
• “Where to next on credit card reforms?” (with Stephen King) Melbourne Review, Vol.4, No.1, May 2008, pp.42-48.
• “A Theoretical Analysis of Credit Card Reform in Australia,” (with Stephen King) Economic Record, Vol.79, No.247, December 2003, pp.462-472.
• “Approaches to Regulating Interchange Fees in Payment Systems,” (with Stephen King) Review of Network Economics, Vol.2, No.2, June 2003, pp.125-145.
• “The Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems,” (with Stephen King) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.3, No.1, 2003, Article 1.
• “The Role of Interchange Fees in Credit Card Associations: Competitive Analysis and Regulatory Options,” (with Stephen King), Australian Business Law Review, Vol.29, No.2, April 2001, pp.94-122.
• “Economic Issues Associated with Access to Electronic Payments Systems,” (with Richard Scheelings) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.5, December 1999, pp.373-390.

Demography

• “Bargaining over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?” (with Andrew Leigh) Economic Record, Vol.88, No.281, June 2012, pp.182-194.
• “Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing” (with Andrew Leigh) Journal of Public Economics, Vol.93, Nos.1-2, February 2009, pp.246-263.
• “The Millennium Bub,” (with Andrew Leigh)  Applied Economics Letters, Vol.16, No.14, 2009, pp.1467-1470.
• “What Explains the Fall in Weekend Births?“ (with Andrew Leigh) Appendix
• “Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Births and Deaths?“ (with Andrew Leigh), unpublished, 2007.
• “Born (Again) on the First of July: Another Experiment in Birth Timing,” (with Andrew Leigh), unpublished, 2007.
• “Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences,” (with Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova), Social Science and Medicine, Vol.65, No.7, October 2007, pp.1458-1465.
• “Unusual Days in Births and Deaths,” (with Andrew Leigh), The Melbourne Review, 3 (1), May 2007, pp.72-79.
• “Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?” (with Andrew Leigh) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.6, No.1, 2006, Article 23.
• “Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under,” (with Andrew Leigh) The Economists’ Voice, Vol.3, Issue 6, 2006.

Economic Growth

• “Innovation and Climate Change Policy,” American Economic Journal: Policy, 2011 (forthcoming).
• “Growth in Australian Cities” (with Rebecca Bradley), Economic Record, Vol.74 (No.226) September 1998, pp.266-278.
• “Industrialisation with a Menu of Technologies: Appropriate Technologies and the Big Push“, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol.9, No.3, 1998, pp.63-78.
• “Time Lags and Indicative Planning in a Dynamic Model of Industrialisation,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.12, 1998, pp.103-130. [Figure 1]    [Figure2]
• “Industrialization Policy and the Big Push,” in K.J. Arrow et.al. (eds.), Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, Macmillan: London, 1998, Chpt 13.
• “Fixed Cost Assumptions in Industrialisation Theories,” Economics Letters, 56, 1997, pp.111-119.
• “Urban Productivity and Factor Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century,” (with Raphael Bostic and Scott Stern), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 41, No.1, January 1997, pp.38-55.
• “Knowledge of Growth and the Growth of Knowledge,” Information Economics and Policy, Vol.4, No.3, 1989-90, pp.201-224.

Game Theory

• “Engendering Change,” in W. Barnett et.al. (eds.), Commerce, Complexity and Evolution, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2000, Chapter 19, pp.390-414.
• “Best Replies and Adaptive Learning,” Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol.30, No.3, 1995, pp.221-234.
• “Evolutionary Selection of Beliefs,” Economics Letters, Vol.49, No.1, July, 1995, pp.13-17.
• “Comparative Statics Made Simple: An Introduction to Recent Advances,” Australian Economic Papers, June 1996, pp.81-93.

Publishing in Economics

• “First Author Conditions” (with Maxim Engers, Simon Grant, Stephen King), Journal of Political Economy, Vol.107, No.4, August 1999, pp.859-883.
• “Why Referees Are Not Paid (Enough)” (with Maxim Engers), American Economic Review, Vol.88, No.5, December 1998, pp.1341-1349.
• “How Are The Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles By Leading Economists,” (with George Shepherd), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.8, No.1, Winter, 1994, pp.165-179.

Other Research

• “Carbon Offset Provision with Guilt-Ridden Consumers,” (with Vivienne Groves) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol.21, No.1, 2012, pp.243-269.
• “How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant” (with Andrew Leigh) Economic Record, Vol.88, No.280, March 2012, pp.127-147. (Link to working paper)
• “Do Voluntary Carbon Offsets Work?“ The Economists’ Voice, Vol.4, Iss.4, Article 7. (Republished in G. Chichilnisky, ed., The Economics of Climate Change, Edward Elgar, 2010.)
• “Darth Vader and the Hold Up Problem,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol.114, No.2, April, 2006, back page suggestion.
• “Limited Information, the Possibility of Rational Choice, and the Contingent Valuation Method,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol.26, Nos.1/2/3, 1999, pp.402-414.
• “Majority Voting With Single-Crossing Preferences,” (with Michael Smart) Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1), February 1996, pp.219-238.
• “On the Impossibility of Rational Choice Under Incomplete Information,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.29, No.2, March, 1996, pp.287-309.
• “Chaos Theory, Nonlinearities and Economics: A Speculative Note,” Economic Papers, Vol.10, No.1, March 1991, pp.40-53.
• “Time and Economics: Reflections on Hawking,” Methodus, Vol.2, No.2, December 1990, pp. 80-81.

Presentations

2013

• “Markets for Scientific Attribution,” Economics Dept Seminar, Berkeley, March 2013
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media,” iSchool Special Lecture, Berkeley, March 2013 (Video)
• “Information Wants to be Shared,” Annual Grafstein Lecture, University of Toronto Law School, March 2013
• “Information Wants to be Shared,” Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, New York, February 2013
• “Television Wants to be Shared,” BBC Seminar on Broadcasting, Oxford, January 2013 (Financial Times write-up).
• “Consumer Tracking and Efficient Matching in Online Advertising Markets,” American Economic Association, San Diego, January 2013

2012

• “MFNs and Platforms,” CRA Antitrust Conference, Brussels, December 2012
• “Information Wants to be Shared,” Rotman Lecture Series, December 2012
• “Measuring free and shared goods,” MIT Digital Roundtable, December 2012
• “The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit,” Changing Frontier Pre-Conference, Cambridge, October 2012
• “Why are we here?” NBER/Sloan Workshop on Open Scholarship, October 2012
• “Thinking Strategically,” MBA Introduction Lecture, Rotman, August 2012
• “Markets for Scientific Attribution,” Melbourne Business School, August 2012
• “Markets for Scientific Attribution,” IO Workshop, Vancouver, July 2012
• “The Economics of Pure Digital Currencies,” NBER Pre-Conference on the Economics of Digitization: An Agenda, Chicago, June 2012
• “Alternative Models of Contribution,” Presentation to The Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library: Plans and Prospects, Washington DC, May 2012
• “Jurisdictional Institutional Experimentation & Evolution,” Iceland Government IP Workshop, MIT, May 2012.
• “Markets for Scientific Attribution,” MIT Organizational Economics Seminar, April 2012
• “Information Wants to be Shared,” Center for Digital Business Workshop, MIT, April 2012

2011

• “The Delicate Desire for Monopoly,” CRA Antitrust Conference, Brussels, 7 December 2011.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” University of Toronto, 21 November 2011.
• “The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media,” FTC Microeconomics Conference, Washington DC, 4th November 2011.
• “The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media,” NBER Summer Institute, 23rd July 2011.
• “Mobile Application Pricing” Microsoft Research, Cambridge, 18th May 2011.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” CRES Conference on the Foundations of Strategy, St Louis, 14th May 2011.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston 9th April, 2011.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Haas School, Berkeley, 31st March, 2011.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” HBS Networks Initiative, 15th February, 2011.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” MIT Sloan School, 28th January, 2011.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge,” Toronto, 17th January, 2011.

2010

• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Georgetown, 16th December 2010.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” London Business School, 6th December 2010.
• “Can Online Advertising Markets Save the News Media?,” Harvard Business School, 1st December, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Northwestern/Duke/Texas IO Theory Conference, Duke, 20th November, 2010.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western, 17th November, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” Northwestern University, 15th November, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” Harvard Law School, 8th November, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Boston College, 22nd October, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Google, 21st October, 2010.
• “Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Yahoo Research, 19th October, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin” University of Texas (Austin), 18th October, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Annual Media Economics Workshop, New York, 15th October, 2010.
• “When do patents encourage disclosure?” London Business School, 8th October 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” London School of Economics, 7th October 2010.
• “Funding Restrictions and Scientific Disclosure,” NBER Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, Airlie Virginia, 1st October 2010.
• “Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Duke, 28th September, 2010.
• “Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” MIT/Harvard Joint Organizational Economics Seminar, 23rd September 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Columbia, 21st September, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin” Northeastern University, 20th September 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Harvard, 13th September 2010.
• “Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and the Market for Ideas” NBER Entrepreneurship Boot Camp, 30th July 2010.
• “Negotiating for the Market,” NBER Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation, 28th July 2010.
• “Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy Meetings, 26th July 2010.
• “When do patents encourage disclosure?” Tirole Mini-Course, July 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?“ Stanford, 9th June, 2010.
• “Negotiating for the Market,” IFN Conference on Innovation, Ownership and Competition Policy, Stockholm, 3rd June, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” ZEW Platform Conference, Mannheim, 31st May, 2010.
• “Negotiating for the Market,” International Industrial Organization Conference, Vancouver, 15th May, 2010.
• “Negotiating for the Market” UCLA, 14th May, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Yale, 6th May, 2010.
• “Unusual Days in Births and Deaths,” Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, 4th May, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Chicago Booth School of Business, 3rd May, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” NYU, 27th April, 2010.
• “When is Static Analysis a Sufficient Proxy for Dynamic Considerations? Reconsidering Innovation and Antitrust,” NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference, 20th April, 2010.
• “Innovation and Climate Change Policy,” Resources for the Future, 19th April, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” George Mason, 14th April, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” Department of Justice, 13th April, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Virginia, 12th April, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Harvard Business School, 29th March, 2010.
• “Negotiating for the Market,” Michigan, 19th March, 2010.
• “Innovation and Climate Change Policy,” NBER Productivity Lunch, 16th March, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Toronto, 15th March, 2010.
• “Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?” Dartmouth, 12th March, 2010.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Boston University, 4th March, 2010.
• “Collusion at the Extensive Margin,” Harvard, 2nd March, 2010.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Harvard Business School, 26th February, 2010.
• “Funding Conditions, the Private-Public Research Portfolio and the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge,” MIT, 25th February, 2010.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication,” Wharton, 24th February 2010.

2009

• “Will New Media Destroy the Local Media,” Monash University Seminar, October 2009.
• “Economic Policy in the Post-Crisis Era,” PerCapita Policy Exchange Keynote Address, October 2009.
• “Platform Siphoning,” Stanford Internet Economics Conference, September 2009.
• “Funding Conditions, the Public-Private Research Portfolio and the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge,” NBER Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Pre-Conference, Laguna Beach, July 2009.
• “Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities,” Australasian Meetings of the Econometric Society, Canberra, July 2009.
• “Market Power in the Electricity Market,” ACCC Regulatory Talk, May 2009.
• “Innovation and Climate Change Policy” ETC Seminar, April 2009.
• “Is there a market for ideas?” CITE Information and Innovation Workshop, March, 2009.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge,” International Industrial Organization Conference, Northeastern University, April 2009.
• “Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge,” Summer Workshop in Industrial Organisation, University of Auckland, February 2009.

2008

• “Emerging Concepts in Market Design,” PerCapita Policy Exchange Conference, 30th October 2008.
• “Dynamic Efficiency and the Automobile Industry,” Melbourne Institute Economics Forum, 13th October, 2008.
• “Climate Change Policy,” Honours in Economics Alumni Evening, University of Melbourne, 8th October, 2008.
• “The New Economics of Science,” Xiaokai Yang Memorial Lecturer, Conference of Economists, Gold Coast, 30th September 2008.
• “Is there a market for ideas?” Conference on Markets for Technology, Madrid, 18th September, 2008.
• “Patents, Papers and Secrecy: Contracting over Scientific Disclosure,” Seminar, Northwestern University, 16th September 2008.
• “Patents, Papers and Secrecy: Contracting over Scientific Disclosure,” Workshop on the Economics of the Future of Scholarly Communication, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12th September 2008.
• “Contracting over Scientific Disclosure,” Organisational Economics Workshop Keynote Address, Sydney, 8th August, 2008
• “Options for Parental Leave,” Thought Leadership Forum, Melbourne Business School, 19th June 2008 (on YouTube Part I, Part II, Part III)
• “Gaps in Tax Reform,” Talk prepared (but not delivered) at CEDA Tax Reform Lunch, 17th June 2008
• “Innovation Policy and the Environment,” Seminar, Dept of Sustainability & the Environment, 6th June 2008
• “What drives scientific disclosure,” Seminar, UQ-Economics, 23rd May, 2008.
• “Changing Birthdays,” Economic Society of Australia, NSW, Lunchtime Presentation, 14th May, 2008.
• “New Ideas in Innovation Policy,” Economic Society of Australia Innovation Policy Workshop, 8th May, 2008.
• “Economic Aspects of Broadband,” ACMA Presentation, 20th March 2008.
• “Buying Solutions: Government Procurement for Innovation,” Victorian Government Workshop, 28th February, 2008.

2007

• “Patents, Secrecy and Disclosure,” Seminar Presentations at Stanford, Colorado and Hong Kong, September 2007
• “The Tangled Web of Broadband Policy,” Parliamentary Library Seminar Series, 15th August 2007 (on YouTube: Part I and Part II)
• “Taking into Account Regulatory Risk,” ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, 25th July, 2007.
• “Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics,” Seminar Presentation, University of Virginia, 16th April, 2007.
• “Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics,” International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah (GA), 14th April, 2007.
• “Tivoed,” Seminar Presentations, Stern-NYU & Cornell, 10th and 11th April, 2007
• “A Ridiculously Simple Resolution to the Empty Core Problem,” 25th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, ANU, 16 February, 2007.
• “Wholesale Bargaining,” Seminar Presentation, Wharton School of Management, 8 January, 2007
• “Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics,” NBER Entrepreneurship Pre-Conference, Chicago, 7 January, 2007

2006

• “Tivoed,” Media Economics Workshop, Washington DC, 17-18 November, 2006
• “The Dynamics of Ideas Markets,” Seminar Presentation, MIT Sloan School of Management, 14 November; and Yale School of Management, 15 November, 2006
• “Wholesale Bargaining,” Seminar Presentation, Yale School of Management, 16 November, 2006
• “Are we done with the dominant firm model?” ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, July, 2006
• “Dramatic Credit Card Reform: What Happened?” Payment Systems Conference, MBS, March 2006

2005

• “Real Consumers and Telco Choice: The Road to Confusopoly,” Australian Telecommunications Summit, Sydney, November 2005
• “Cartels and Competition,” Workshop on Cartel Enforcement, Melbourne, September, 2005
• “The Road to Confusopoly,” ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, July 2005
• “Protecting Competition to Protect Consumers,” ACCC Workshop on Consumer Protection, March, 2005

Australian Economic Policy

Innovation

• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2009 Update (with Richard Hayes) December 2010.
• “Using Markets in Innovation Policy,” Australian Economic Review, Vol.42, No.1, pp.88-95.
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2008 Update (with Richard Hayes)  April, 2009
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2007 Update (with Richard Hayes)  February, 2008
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2006 Update (with Richard Hayes)  December, 2006
• “Measuring innovative performance,” (with Richard Hayes) The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.1, May, 2006, pp.70-77.
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2005 Update (with Richard Hayes)  December, 2005
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2004 Update (with Richard Hayes)  November, 2004
• Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity in the 21st Century (with Scott Stern)  June, 2003
• “Driving the Hard Bargain for Australian R&D“, Prometheus, Vol.16, No.1, March, 1998, pp.47-56.
• “Does Australia Really Need to Encourage its Innovators to Commercialise In-House?“ Policy, Vol.13, No.4, 1998, pp.36-40.

Intellectual Property

• “Intellectual Property Rights: a Grant of Monopoly or an Aid to Competition,” (with Philip Williams and David Briggs) Australian Economic Review, Vol.37, No.4, December 2004, pp.436-445.
• “The Value of IP Protection in Markets for Ideas,” Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.16, No.6, 2003, pp.88-90.
• “Benefits and Costs of Copyright: An Economic Perspective – Part 2,” (with Megan Richardson, Frances Hanks and Philip Williams) Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.13, No.6, 2000, pp.79-92.
• “Benefits and Costs of Copyright: An Economic Perspective,” (with Megan Richardson, Frances Hanks and Philip Williams) Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.13, No.5, 2000, pp.62-65.

Competition

• “What is different about media mergers?” (with Simon Anderson), The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.2, November 2006, pp.32-36.
• “Reconsidering the Public Benefit Test in Merger Analysis: The Role of ‘Pass Through’,” Australian Business Law Review, 2006 (forthcoming).
• “Dealing with Difficult Mergers,” The Melbourne Review, Vol.1, No.1, November 2005, pp.78-82.
• “Protecting Consumers by Protecting Competition: Does Behavioural Economics Support this Contention?,” Competition and Consumer Law Journal,13 (1), 2006, pp.40-50.
• “Potential Anticompetitive Effects of Bundling,” (with Stephen King) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.33, No.1, February 2005, pp.29-35.
• “Supermarkets and Shopper Dockets: The Australian Experience,” (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.37, No.3, 2004 pp.311-316.
• “The Decision of the High Court in Rural Press: How the literature on credible threats may have materially facilitated a better decision,” (with Rajat Sood and Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.33, No.5, October 2004, pp.337-344.
• “Structural and Behavioural Market Power under the Trade Practices Act: An Application to Predatory Pricing,” (with Anthony Niblett and Stephen King) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.32, No.2 April, 2004, pp.83-110.
• “Contestability, Complementary Inputs and Contracting: The Case of Harbour Towage,” (with Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.36, No.4, December 2003, pp.415-427.
• “The Economic Consequences of DVD Regional Restrictions,” (with Emily Dunt and Stephen King) Economic Papers, Vol.21, No.1, March 2002, pp.32-45.
• “The Treatment of Natural Monopoly under the Australian Trade Practices Act: Three Recent Decisions,” (with Frances Hanks and Philip Williams)Australian Business Law Review, Vol.29, No.6, December, 2001, pp.492-507.
• “The Competitive Balance Argument for Mergers,” Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.1, March 2000, pp.83-93.
• “The Role of Undertakings in Regulatory Decision-Making” (with Teresa Fels and Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.1, March 2000, pp.3-16.
• “Contracts and Electricity Pool Prices” (with Danny Price and Kim Woods), Australian Journal of Management, Vol.23, No.1, June 1998, pp.83-96.

Regulation

• “Competitive Neutrality in Access Pricing,” (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.38, No.2, 2005, pp.128-136.
• “Taking into Account Extraordinary Circumstances in Regulatory Pricing,” (with Stephen King), Agenda, Vol.11, No.4, 2004, pp.349-362.
• “When are Regulated Access Prices Competitively Neutral? The Case of Telecommunications in Australia (with Stephen King), Australian Business Law Review, Vol.32, No.6, 2004, pp.407-414.
• “Options for Electricity Transmission Regulation in Australia,” (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.2, June 2000, pp.145-161.
• Comparing Alternative Approaches to Calculating Long-Run Incremental Cost (with Stephen King)  1st June, 2004
• “Regulating Interconnection Pricing,” (with Stephen King), Australian Telecommunications Regulation, A. Grant (ed.), UNSW Press: Sydney, 2003, Chapter 3.
• “Access Holidays: The Panacea for Network Infrastructure Investment,” (with Stephen King), Agenda, Vol.10, No.2, 2003, pp.163-178.
• “Regulating Termination Charges for Telecommunications Networks,” (with Stephen King) Australian Journal of Management, Vol.27, No.1, June 2002, pp.75-86.
• Termination Charges for Mobile Phone Networks: Competitive Analysis and Regulatory Options (with Stephen King)  December, 1999
• Regulation of Termination Charges for Non-Dominant Networks (with Stephen King)  December, 1999
• “Efficient Investment Pricing Rules and Access Regulation,” (with Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.4, August, 1999, pp.267-279.
• “A Primer on Access Regulation and Investment” (with Philip Williams), in M. Arblaster and M. Jamison (eds.), Infrastructure Regulation and Market Reform: Principles and Practice, ACCC/PURC: Melbourne, 1998, pp.150-160.

Broadband

• “‘Big Bang’ Telecommunications Reform,” (with Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.43, No.2, 2010, pp.179-186.
• “Creating an efficient national broadband network,” Australia’s Broadband Future: CEDA’s Growth, No.60, December 2008.
• “Looking Local on Broadband,” Public Policy, Vol.2, No.1, 2007, pp.10-24.
• The Local Broadband Imperative, CEDA Information Paper, No.86.  6th December, 2006

Health

• “Does Australia’s Health Insurance System Really Provide Insurance?” Policy, Vol.20, No.3, Spring 2004, pp.10-14.
• “Anti-insurance: Analysing the Health Insurance System in Australia,” (with Stephen King) Economic Record, Vol.79, No.248, December 2003, pp.473-486.

Housing

• “The Housing Lifeline: A Policy for Short-Run Housing Affordability,” (with Stephen King) Agenda, Vol.11, No.2, 2004.
• “Housing and Income Contingent Loans for Low Income Households,” (with Stephen King) Managing Government Risk: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress, Bruce Chapman (ed.), Routledge: London, 2006, Chapter 11.
• Policy Options for Housing for Low Income Households (with Stephen King) 6th June, 2003

Other

• “How partisan is the press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant” (with Andrew Leigh), 2009.
• “The delicate balance on parental leave,” Melbourne Review, Vol.4, No.2, November 2008, pp.47-55.
• “Paid Parental Leave,” Policy Brief, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU, August 2008.
• “The 2020 Summit: ‘The Productivity Agenda’,” Agenda, Vol.15, No.2, 2008, pp.13-14.
• ‘AussieMac’: A Policy Initiative for the Australian Government to Protect Households and the Financial System Against Current and Future Credit Crises (with Christopher Joye) April 2008 (Postscript: Reaction and Market Update, June 2008)
• “The practicalities of emissions trading,” (with John Quiggin), The Melbourne Review, 3 (2), November 2007, pp.60-65.
• Grower Returns and Single Desk Selling of Australian Wheat   18th November, 2004
• “Of Grand Prix and Circuses,” Australian Economic Review, No.115, 3rd Quarter 1996, pp.299-307.
• Competing for Public Goods and Private Business

Public Submissions

Innovation Policy

• The Royal Society (Science as a Public Enterprise), “Funding Conditions and the Incentives to Disclosure Scientific Knowledge,” (with Fiona Murray), 30th July 2011.
• National Innovation Review: “Rationales and Funding Mechanisms for Innovation in Australia”   10th April, 2008
• Productivity Commission study on Public Support for Science & Innovation (and Supplementary Submission) July, 2006
• House of Representatives Review on Technological Protection Measures Exceptions  September, 2005

Competition Policy

• “The right policy for telecommuncations and broadband,” Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network, 18th June 2009.
• “Creating an Efficient National Broadband Network,” Submission to the Senate Inquiry on the National Broadband Network, 8th September, 2008.
• “Issues in Competition in Retail Banking: Comments on switching costs, exit fees and mergers in banking,” Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into Competition in the Banking and Non-Banking Sectors, 2nd July, 2008
• “Evaluating FuelWatch,” Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into National FuelWatch Bill, 1st July 2008.
• National Broadband Network Request for Proposals  20th March, 2008
• Broadband Expert Taskforce 20th August, 2007
• ACCC Petrol Pricing Inquiry: Assessing the Impact of Shopper Docket Schemes, 9th July, 2007
• ACCC Petrol Price Inquiry (Supplementary Submission), 19th July, 2007

Environmental Policy

• Inquiry into the exposure drafts of the legislation to implement the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Senate Economics Committee: “Economics Issues Associated with the Emissions Trade Regime,” 16th March, 2009
• Garnaut Climate Change Review: “The Practicalities of Emissions Trading” (with John Quiggin)  16th April, 2008
• Garnaut Climate Change Review: “Innovation and Environmental Policy”  7th April, 2008
• Emissions Trading Task Group (with John Quiggin)   5th March, 2007

Payment System Reform

• Evaluating the Impact of the Payment System Reforms: Submission to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payment System Board’s 2007-08 Review of Payment System Reforms  27th August 2007
• Evaluating the Impact of the Payment System Reforms: Submission to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payment System Board’s 2007-08 Review of Payment System Reforms  19th January 2007
• Submission to the House Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration “Review of the Reserve Bank & Payments System Annual Report 2005  April 2006

Other

• “Comments on the proposed amendments to parallel importation laws for books,” Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry on Parallel Importation of Books, April 2009.
• “AussieMac,” (with Christopher Joye), Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into Competition in the Banking and Non-Banking Sectors, 23rd June 2008.
• Productivity Commission Parental Leave Inquiry: “Return to Work Credits: Ideas for Efficient and Equitable Parental Leave following Child-Birth”   13th May 2008