A.B. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D. Harvard University
Areas of Expertise
Industrial organization; the economics of technological change; evaluation of research and development; antitrust policy and technology policy
Selected Works
Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms, with A N Link (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012).
Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D , with A N Link (Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government-Sponsored Research and Development: Would a Predicition Market Improve the Performance of the SBIR Programme?,” with A N Link, Economica , 76:302 (2009) 264-281.
“Competition in Research and Development: A Theory for Contradictory Predictions,” Review of Industrial Organization , 34:2 (2009) 153-171.
“The National Cooperative Research and Production Act,” and “Multimarket Contact,” in Issues in Competition Law and Policy , W D Collins (ed.) 2 (2008) 1297-1317, 1553-1573.
Purposive Diversification and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1993 & 2005).
Multimarket Contact and Economic Performance," Review of Economics and Statistics, 64:3 (1982) 368-375.
Current Projects
“Competitive Pressure and R&D Investment;” “Public Infrastructure Technologies and Economic Performance”