Selected Faculty Publications

Simon Anderson (Professor, Queen's University)

Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation (with A. de Palma and J. F. Thisse), MIT Press, 1992;

"Oligopolistic Competition and the Optimal Provision of Products" (with A. de Palma and Y. Nesterov), Econometrica,1995;

"Rent Seeking with Bounded Rationality: An Analysis of the All-Pay Auction" (with J. Goeree and C. Holt), Journal of Political Economy, 1998;

"Consumer Information and Firm Pricing: Negative Externalities from Improved Information" (with R. Renault), International Economic Review, forthcoming;

"Pricing, Product Diversity, and Search Costs: A Bertrand-Chamberlin-Diamond model" (with R. Renault), Rand Journal of Economics, 30(4):719-735, Winter 1999.

"Interest Elasticity in a Life-Cycle Model with Precautionary Savings" American Economic Review, 91:2 (May 2001) 418-421;

"Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth" (with L.P. Hansen, T.J. Sargent and N. Williams), working paper;

"Entrepreneurship, default risk, bequests and the distribution of wealth" (with M. De Nardi), working paper;

"Wealth accumulation over the life cycle and precautionary savings", working paper.

"Package Size and Price Discrimination: Evidence from the Paper Towel", working paper;

"Package Size and Price Discrimination: The Effects on Welfare and Competition in the Paper Towel Market," working paper.

"The Beer Industry", in W. Adams(ed.)The Structure of American Industry, Prentice-Hall, 2000; The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Economic Regulation (With W. Breit), 3rd edition, Dryden Press, 1996;

"The Distribution and Pricing of Prescription Drugs" (with D. Mills), International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1997;

A Deadly Indifference (with W. Breit), Princeton University Press, 1998; "PC Software" (with D. Mills), Antitrust Bulletin, 1999.

"Why Referees are Not Paid (Enough)" (with J. Gans), American Economic Review, Vol. 88, December 1998;

"First Author Conditions (with J. Gans, S. Grant and S. King), Journal of Political Economy, August, 1999;

"Sanctions: Some Simple Analytics" (with J. Eaton), American Economic Review, May 1999;

"Long-term Care and Family Bargaining" (with S. Stern), International Economic Review, forthcoming 2001.

"Stock Prices as Branching Processes", Communications in Statistics: Stochastic Models, 1996;

"Limiting Behavior of the ICF Test for Normality Under Gram-Charlier Alternatives", Statistics and Probability Letters, 1999;

"Stock Prices as Branching Processes: Estimation" (with J.P. Dion), Communications in Statistics: Computation and Simulation, 1999;

Pricing Derivative Securities; World Scientific Press, 2000.

"The Social Security Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men", Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 12, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998;

"Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data," American Economic Review, June 1998, Volume 88 (3), pages 608-627;

"The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement", Journal of Public Economics, February 1999, Volume 71 (2), pages 213-232;

"The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test", The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2000, Volume 82 (1), pages 48-63.

"Bidding for the Future: Signaling in Auctions with an Aftermarket" Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming;

"Efficiency in Auctions with Private and Common Values" (with T. Offerman), American Economic Review, forthcoming;

"Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions" (with C. Holt), American Economic Review, forthcoming;

"Location, Location, Location", (S.Anderson and R. Ramer), Journal of Economic Theory, 1997.

"Anomalous Behavior in a Traveler's Dilemma?" (with M. Capra, C. Gomez, C. Holt), American Economic Review, 1999;

"Optional Prices and Implied Volatility Dynamics under Bayesian Learning" (with Allan Timmerman), discussion paper;

"Asset Prices in a Binomial Lattice Equilibrium Model with Bayesian Learning" (with Allan Timmerman), discussion paper;

"Home Bias and High Turnover in an Overlapping Generations Model with Learning", discussion paper.

Experimental Economics (with D. Davis), Princeton U. Press, 1993;

"Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions" (with J. Goeree), American Economic Review, forthcoming.

"Anomalous Behavior in a Traveler's Dilemma?" (with M. Capra, J. Goeree, and R. Gomez), American Economic Review, June 1999;

"Stochastic Game Theory: For Playing Games, Not Just for Doing Theory" (with J. Goeree), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, July 1999;

"Economic Instability in 19th Century America", American Economic Review, 1993;

"Job Tenure in the Gilded Age", The Historical Evolution of Labor Markets, 1994;

Capitalism in Context, ed., University of Chicago Press, 1994;

"Reconstructing the Pattern of American Unemployment Before World War I", Economica, 1995;

"The Risk and Fall of the Commercial Paper Market, 1900-1930", Anglo-American Finance: Financial Markets and Institutions in the 20th Century.

"Income Redistribution in a Federal System", American Economic Review, 1988;

"Decentralized Income Redistribution Reconsidered", Economic Inquiry, 1991;

"The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences" (with D. Neal), Journal of Political Economy, 1996;

"Basic Skills and the Black-White Earnings Gap (with D. Neal), in C. Jencks and M. Phillips, eds. Black-White Test Score Differences, 1998

"Constructing and Estimating a Realistic Optimizing Model of Monetary Policy", Journal of Monetary Economics , 45:2 (2000) 329-359;

"Exact Utilities under Alternative Monetary Rules in Simple Macro Model with Optimizing Agents" (with Dale Henderson), International Tax and Public Finance, 6 (1999) 507-535, and in A. Razin, A. Rose and P. Isard (eds.) International Finance in Turmoil: Essays in Honor of Robert P. Flood, IMF, and Kluwer Academic Publishers (Washington and Boston), 1999;

"The Choice of a Monetary Policy Reaction Function in a Simple Optimizing Model," forthcoming;
"Spurious Welfare Reversals in International Business Cycle Models" (with S. Kim), discussion paper;

"Patience, Persistence and the Properties of the Incomplete Market Models" (with S. Kim and A. Levin), discussion paper.

Size, Sunk Costs and Judge Bowker's Objection to Free Trade", American Economic Review, June 1997;

"Consequences of Discretion in the Formation of Commodities Policy", Journal of Public Economics, September 1998;

"Supplier Relations and the Market Context: A Theory of Handshakes", Journal of International Economics, June 1999;

"Speculation on Primary Commodities: the Effects of Restricted Entry", Review of Economic Studies, October 1999;

"'Globalization' and Vertical Structure", American Economic Review, December 2000.

"Inflation, Expectations, and Output: Lucas's Island Revisited", Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

"Fixed Exchange Rates and the Quantity Theory in Colonial America", Carnegie-Rochester Conferences Volume, 1987;

"The Political Economy of Insider Trading Laws" (with C.Tighe), Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Associations, 1994;

"Why Retailers Sell Private Labels", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1995;

"It Pays to be Different: Endogenous Heterogeneity of Firms in an Oligopoly" (with W. Smith), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1996;

"Price Wars Triggered by Entry" (with K.G. Elzinga), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1999;

"Independent Service Organizations and Economic Efficiency" (with K.G. Elzinga), Economic Inquiry, 2001.

"The Great Fish War: An Example Using a Dynamic Cournot-Nash Solution" (with D. Levhari), The Bell Journal of Economics, 1980;

"Supportability, Sustainability, and Subsidy-Free Prices" (Y. Tauman and I. Zang), Rand Journal of Economics, 1985;

"Dupoly Signal Jamming" (with L. Samuelson and A. Urbano), Journal of Economic Theory, 1992;

"Strategic Information Manipulation in Duopolies" (with L. Samuelson and E. Schlee), Journal of Economic Theory, 1992.

"An Econmetric Analysis of Rent Control", Journal of Political Economy, 1972;

" The Benefits and Costs of Public Housing in New York City" (with D. Barton), Journal of Public Economics, 1983;

"The Welfar Economics of Equal Access" (with D.L. Rogers), Journal of Public Economics, 1991;

"Housing Programs for Low-Income Household," in Robert Moffitt, ed., Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the U.S., University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

"On Measuring The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles," Journal of Monetary Economics, February 2001, Vol 47:61-92;

"Spectral Welfare Cost Functions", International Economic Review, May 2001, vol 42:345-367;

"The Hansen-Jagannathan Bound as an Evaluation Device: A Monte Carlo Investigation" (with B. Ravikumar and Charles H. Whiteman), Journal of Applied Econmetrics, forthcoming;

"Bayesian Leading Indicators: Measuring and Predicting Economic Conditions in Iowa" (with Charles H. Whiteman), International Economic Review, November 1998.

"The Intergenerational Taransmission of Welfare Receipt: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis", The Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2000, 82(3):472-288;

"Teenage Childbearing and Cognitive Development" (with Michael J. Brien and Gregory Loya), Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming;

"Monotne Instrumental Variables: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling" (with Charles Manski), Econometrica, 68(4), July 2000, 997-1010.

"How Do Response Problems Affect Survey Measurement of Trends in Drug Use?" in C. Manski, J. Pepper, and C. Petrie, eds., Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., forthcoming.

"Job Exit Behavior of Older Men" (with J. Berkovec), Econometrica, 1991;

"Demand for Transportation By Elderly and Disabled People", Transportation Research, 1993;

"Estimating Family Long-Term Care Decisions in the Presence of Endogenous Child Characteristics", Journal of Human Resources, 1995;

Semiparametric Estimates of the Supply and Demand Effects of Disability on Labor Force Participation", Journal of Econometrics, 1996.

The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist (editor), Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, three volumes, 1996;

"Enemies or Allies? Henry George and Francis Amasa Walker One Century Later," Journal of Ecomonic Literature, 1997; "Alfred Marshall and Scientific Management", in S.C. Dow and P.E. Earl (editors), Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge, Elgar, 1999;

"Claiming and Reclaiming the Past: The Legitimizing Role fo the Precursor Concept", in S.J. Peart and E. L. Forget (editors), Reflecting on the Classical Canon in Economics, Routledge, 2001.