Stephen F. Hamilton

Professor of Economics, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly

Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization

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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.