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Selected publications
 
Papers on antitrust and industrial organization:
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2011), Evaluating the relative performance of UPP with share-based diversion ratios, European Competition Journal (Forthcoming).  [Download] 
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2011), The competitive impact of hypermarket retailers on gasoline prices, Journal of Law and Economics (Forthcoming). [Download]
  • Taylor, C.T.; Kriesle, N.M.; and Zimmerman, P.R. (2010), Vertical relationships and competition in retail gasoline markets: empirical evidence from contract changes in Southern California: comment, American Economic Review, 100, 1269-1276. [Download]  
  • Bush, C.A. and Zimmerman, P.R. (2010), Media mergers with preference externalities and their implications for content diversity, consumer welfare, and policy, Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, 10, 105-133. [Download]
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2008), Strategic incentives under vertical integration: the case of wireline-affiliated wireless carriers and intermodal competition in the U.S., Journal of Regulatory Economics, 34, 282-298. [Download] 
  • Zimmerman, P.R. and Flaherty, S.M.V. (2007), Location monopolies and prison phone rates, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 47, 261-278. [Download] 
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2007), Recent developments in U.S. wireline telecommunications, Telecommunications Policy, 31, 419-437. [Download] 
  • Flaherty, S.M.V. and Zimmerman, P.R. (2005), Does allowing the Bells to offer interLATA long-distance service affect entry into local telephony?, Southern Economic Journal, 72, 197-212. [Download] 
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2003), Regional Bell Operating Company entry into long-distance and non-price discrimination against rival interexchange carriers: empirical evidence from panel data, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 19, 269-290. [Download]     
 
Papers on the economics of crime:
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2010), The economics of capital punishment and deterrence.  In Handbook on the Economics of Crime (B. Benson and P. Zimmerman, eds.): Edward Elgar Publishers.   
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2009), Statistical variability and the deterrent effect of the death penalty, American Law and Economics Review, 11, 370-398. [Download]
  • Zimmerman, P.R. and Benson, B.L. (2007), Alcohol and rape: an "economics-of-crime" perspective, International Review of Law and Economics, 27, 442-473. [Download]
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2006), The deterrent effect of alternative execution methods in the U.S.: 1978-2000, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 65, 909-941. [Download]
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2004), A theoretical analysis of alcohol regulation and drinking-related economic crime, European Journal of Law and Economics, 18, 169-190. [Download]
  • Zimmerman, P.R. (2004), State executions, deterrence, and the incidence of murder, Journal of Applied Economics, 7, 163-193. [Download]

 

 Miscellaneous topics:
  • Benson, B.L.; Rasmussen, D.W.; and Zimmerman, P.R. (2003), Implicit taxes collected by state liquor monopolies, Public Choice, 115, 313-331. [Download]
  • Sass, T.R. and Zimmerman, P.R. (2000), Motorcycle helmet laws and motorcyclist fatalities, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 18, 195-215.  [Download]


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Last update: October, 2011. 

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