Stephen F. Hamilton
Professor of Economics, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization
Selected Publications:
“Differentiation by Certification: Quantity Effects on Tropical Timber Production,” (with Jackie Doremus and Matt Cole), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 107, May 2021, Article 102423.
“Pricing Strategies of Food Retailers,” (with Jura Liaukonyte and Timothy Richards), Annual Review of Resource Economics, 12 (2020), pp. 87-110.
“Coordination for Collective Rents: An Experimental Analysis,” (with Olivier Bonroy, Alexis Garapin and Diogo M. Souza Monteiro), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(1), January 2019, pp. 89-108. (Quality of Research Discovery Award.)
“Food Waste and the Sharing Economy,” (with Timothy Richards), Food Policy 75, February 2018, pp. 109-123. (Atlas Award.)
“Retail Market Power in a Shopping Basket Model of Supermarket Competition,” (with Timothy Richards and Koichi Yonezawa), Journal of Retailing 94(3), September 2018, pp. 328-342.
“Variety Pass-Through: An Examination of the Ready-to-eat Breakfast Cereal Market,” (with Timothy J. Richards), Review of Economics and Statistics 97(1), March 2015, pp. 166-180.
“Variety Competition in Retail Markets,” (with Timothy J. Richards), Management Science 55(8), August 2009, pp. 1368-76.
“Excise Taxes with Multi-Product Transactions,” American Economic Review 99(1), March 2009, pp. 458-71.
“Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control,” (with Robert Innes), RAND Journal of Economics 40(1), Spring 2009, pp. 120-43.
“Green Markets, Eco-Certification, and Equilibrium Fraud” (with David Zilberman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 52(3), November 2006, pp. 627-44.