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Publications

We have written on a number of cases, regulatory policy issues, and theories of antitrust economics and law. Below is a selection of our writing in these areas. We have published many other articles in various areas of applied economics. Visit our experts pages and view their curricula vitae for a more complete listing.

Antitrust Cases | Antitrust Economics and Law | Industrial Organization | Internet Policy | Telecom Policy |

Antitrust Cases

Lane, Erin, Juan Nagel, and Janet S. Netz. 2009. "Alternative Approaches to Measuring MRP: Are All Men's College Basketball Players Exploited?".

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and John Metzler. 2002 (revised). "Links Between Vertically Related Markets: ITS v Kodak". In The Antitrust Revolution, 4th ed. J. Kwoka and L. White, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press). Earlier version published in The Antitrust Revolution, 3rd ed. (1999).

Netz, Janet, 2000. "The End of Collusion? Competition after Justice and the Ivy League and MIT Settle". Research Paper (Purdue University, Department of Economics).

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 2000. " An AOL / Time Warner Merger Will Harm Competition in Internet Online Services". Report submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (October).

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 2000. " Telstra's Proposed Acquisition of OzEmail: Harm to Competition in the Australian Market for Internet Service Provision". Report submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Netz, Janet. 1999. "Non-Profits and Price-Fixing: The Case of the Ivy League". Research Paper (Purdue University, Department of Economics). In submission.

Antitrust Economics and Law

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and Janet Netz. 2007. "Manipulating Interface Standards as an Anticompetitive Strategy" in Standards and Public Policy, Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango, eds., Cambridge Press.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 2002. "Antitrust Immunity for Refusals to Deal in (Intellectual) Property Is a Slippery Slope". ABA: The Antitrust Source, July.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 2002. "What to do About Unilateral Refusals to License?". Paper submitted as testimony to 2002 FTC-DOJ Hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy," also available at http://www.ftc.gov/opp/intellect/detailsandparticipants.htm#May%201:.

Netz, Janet, 2000. "Price Regulation: A (Non-Technical) Overview" in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest, eds., (Edward Elgar and University of Ghent).

Borenstein, Severin, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz. 2000. "Exercising Market Power in Proprietary Aftermarkets". Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 9(2): 157-88.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and Richard Pfau. 1999. "Inducements to Advocacy: The Economist as Independent Expert" in The Expert Economist in Antitrust Litigation, Daniel Slottje, ed. (Amsterdam: North-Holland).

Borenstein, Severin, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz. 1995. "Antitrust Policy in Aftermarkets". Antitrust Law Journal, 63(Winter): 455-82.

Borenstein, Severin, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz. 1993. "The Economics of Customer Lock-in and Market Power in Services" in The Service Productivity and Quality Challenge, P. Harker, ed. (New York: Kluwer Academic Press).

Hausman, Jerry and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. 1988. "Price Discrimination and Patent Policy," RAND Journal of Economics, 19(2, Summer): 253-65. Reprinted in Mathematical Models in Economics, M. Bacharach, M. Dempster, J. Enos, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and Robert Pindyck. 1987. "Cartel Theory and Cartel Experience in International Minerals Markets," in Energy: Markets and Regulation, Richard L. Gordon, Henry D. Jacoby and Martin B. Zimmerman, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 187-214.

Industrial Organization

Borenstein, Severin and Janet Netz. 1999. "Why Do All the Flights Leave at 8 am?: Competition and Departure-time Differentiation in Airline Markets". International Journal of Industrial Organization 17:611-640.

Netz, Janet and Beck Taylor. 2002. "Maximum or Minimum Differentiation? Location Patterns of Retail Outlets". Review of Economics and Statistics 84(1): 162-175.

Internet Policy

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 1999. "Investment in Cable Broadband Infrastructure: Open Access is Not an Obstacle". Ex Parte filing in Federal Communications Commission Docket CD No. 99-251, "Consent to the Transfer of Control of Licenses, MediaOne Group, Inc., to AT&T Corp".

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and Hal Varian, 1994 (revised 1995, 1996). "Economic FAQs About the Internet". The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(3, Summer): 75-96. Reprinted (with revisions) in Dr. Dobbs Journal, 19(Winter 1994). Reprinted with extensive updating and revisions in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, 1995 (online at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/). Reprinted in Research Milestones on the Information Highway, S. Kiesler, ed. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996. Reprinted in Quill, vol. 84, no. 9 (Nov. 1996). Also published in Internet Economics, J. Bailey and L. McKnight, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Telecom Policy

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 2000. "Getting the e-economy on track." The Dominion (New Zealand), 15 November.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and Christopher Lee. 1999. Telecommunications Information Resource Directory (Rockville, MD: Government Institutes).

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey and David Waterman, eds. 1998. "Telephony, the Internet, and the Media". (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.).

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey. 1998. "Quantifying the Contribution: Estimates of Telecommunications Services Expenditures Attributable to Online Service Production and Consumption" . Ex Parte filing with the Federal Communications Commission, 6 May.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. 1998. Layering for Equity and Efficiency: A Principled Approach to Universal Service Policy. Filed with the FCC as a Reply Comment by America OnLine, Inc., to Report to Congress on Universal Service, CC Docket No. 96-45, DA 98-2, February. Also available from http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Comments/report2congress/rtcreply.zip.