Research
Research
Work in progress:
The competitive consequences of delegating the retail pricing and assortment decision to a manufacturer under category captainship (2023) (with L.Garrod and K.Patel).
Do football fans switch to an inferior product? (with J.Reade and C.Singelton).
Publications:
Cartel damages claims passing-on and passing-back (2024) Forthcoming in Review of Industrial Organisation, (with L.Garrod, J.Han and J.Harvey).
Supply- vs Demand-side transparency: the collusive effects under imperfect public monitoring (2021) Journal of Industrial Economics, 69(3), 537-560 (with L.Garrod).
Price advertising, double marginalisation and vertical restraints (2020) Economics Letters, 190 (with L.Garrod and C.Wilson).
The role of the maverick firm concept in European Commission merger decisions (2018) Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 14(2), 179-192 (with J.Bromfield).
Explicit vs tacit collusion: The effects of firm numbers and asymmetries (2018) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 56, 1-25 (with L.Garrod).
Collusion under imperfect monitoring with asymmetric firms (2017) Journal of Industrial Economics, 65(3), 654-682 (with L.Garrod).
Raising rivals’ fixed costs (2016) International Journal of the Economics of Business, 23(1), 19-36 (with M.Hviid).
Chain-store pricing and the structure of retail markets (2015) Journal of Industry Competition and Trade, 15, 87-104.
Tacit collusion, firm asymmetries and numbers: evidence from EC merger cases (2010) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29(2), 221-31 (with S.Davies and H.Coles).
Assessing the efficacy of structural merger remedies: choosing between theories of harm? (2010) Review of Industrial Organization, 37, 83-99 (with S.Davies).
Tacit versus overt collusion. Firm asymmetries and numbers: what’s the evidence? (2008) Competition Policy International, 4(2), Autumn, 175-200, (invited submission) (with S.Davies).
Reports:
An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books (2008) Report for the OFT, No. 981 (with S.Davies, C.Ball and C.Wilson).
Benefits from competition: some illustrative UK cases (2004) Report for the DTI, Economics Paper No. 9 (with S.Davies, H.Coles, C.Pike and C.Wilson).