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Overview

Greg Shaffer is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these fields, their work touches on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of Greg Shaffer's work include:

  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Economic theories and models
  • Cellular Automata and Applications
  • Global trade and economics
  • ICT Impact and Policies

Greg Shaffer's publication record includes contributions to various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • The RAND Journal of Economics
  • International Journal of Industrial Organization

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Greg Shaffer reflect a consistent focus on economic aspects of competition, pricing, and market strategies. These include:

  • Pass-Through as an Economic Tool: On Exogenous Competition, Social Incidence, and Price Discrimination (2020, Journal of Political Economy)
  • Input price discrimination by resale market (2021, The RAND Journal of Economics)
  • Third-degree price discrimination in oligopoly with endogenous input costs (2021, International Journal of Industrial Organization)
  • Slotting Fees and Price Discrimination in Retail Channels (2022, Marketing Science)
  • Bundling and Line Extensions in Distribution Channels (2024, Management Science)

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Greg Shaffer often works alongside Jeanine Miklós-Thal, Roman Inderst, Fabian Griem, Øystein Foros, and Hans Jarle Kind. These collaborations have contributed to the development of research in the intersecting fields of economics and management sciences.

Best Publications

  • Vertical Control with Bilateral Contracts

    Greg Shaffer;Daniel P. O'Brien

  • Slotting Allowances and Resale Price Maintenance: A Comparison of Facilitating Practices

    Greg Shaffer

  • Opportunism in Multilateral Vertical Contracting: Nondiscrimination, Exclusivity, and Uniformity: Comment

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  • Competitive Coupon Targeting

    Greg Shaffer;Z. John Zhang

  • Competitive One-to-One Promotions

    Greg Shaffer;Z. John Zhang

  • Pay to Switch or Pay to Stay: Preference-Based Price Discrimination in Markets with Switching Costs

    Greg Shaffer;Z. John Zhang

  • Retail Mergers, Buyer Power and Product Variety*

    Roman Inderst;Greg Shaffer

  • Unequal Treatment of Identical Agents in Cournot Equilibrium

    Stephen W. Salant;Greg Shaffer

  • Optimal asymmetric strategies in research joint ventures

    Stephen W. Salant;Greg Shaffer

  • Nonlinear Supply Contracts, Exclusive Dealing, and Equilibrium Market Foreclosure

    Daniel P. O'Brien;Greg Shaffer

  • Upfront payments and exclusion in downstream markets

    Leslie M. Marx;Greg Shaffer

  • All-units discounts in retail contracts

    Sreya Kolay;Greg Shaffer;Janusz A. Ordover

  • Hassle Costs: The Achilles' Heel of Price‐Matching Guarantees*

    Morten Hviid;Greg Shaffer

  • Transnational Legal Orders

    Terence C. Halliday;Gregory C. Shaffer

  • Imperfect alternatives: Institutional choice and the reform of investment law

    Sergio Puig;Gregory C. Shaffer

  • Market Power, Price Discrimination, and Allocative Efficiency in Intermediate-Goods Markets

    Roman Inderst;Greg Shaffer

  • Slotting Allowances and Scarce Shelf Space

    Leslie M. Marx;Greg Shaffer

  • ON THE INCIDENCE AND VARIETY OF LOW-PRICE GUARANTEES

    Maria Arbatskaya;Morten Hviid;Gregory Shaffer

  • The Welfare Effects of Forbidding Discriminatory Discounts: A Secondary Line Analysis of Robinson-Patman

    Greg Shaffer;Daniel P. O'Brien

  • Slotting Allowances and Optimal Product Variety

    Greg Shaffer

  • Advertising in a Distribution Channel

    Greg Shaffer;Florian Zettelmeyer

  • When Good News About Your Rival Is Good for You: The Effect of Third-Party Information on the Division of Channel Profits

    Greg Shaffer;Florian Zettelmeyer

  • Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change: Notes on the Contributors

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Frequent Co-Authors

Roman Inderst
Roman Inderst Goethe University Frankfurt
Stephen W. Salant
Stephen W. Salant University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard J. Gilbert
Richard J. Gilbert University of California, Berkeley
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University

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