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46
Citations
9737
World Ranking
1659
National Ranking
985

Overview

Joseph E. Harrington is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, and Management Information Systems.

The main topics covered in their work reflect a focus on market structures and behavior, including Merger and Competition Analysis, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Digital Platforms and Economics, Auction Theory and Applications, Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Diverse Legal and Medical Studies, and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems.

Their recent scholarly papers include the following:

  • "Protecting consumers from collusive prices due to AI," 2020, published in Science
  • "The Effect of Outsourcing Pricing Algorithms on Market Competition," 2022, published in Management Science
  • "The Anticompetitiveness of a Private Information Exchange of Prices," 2021, published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization
  • "The Effect of Outsourcing Pricing Algorithms on Market Competition," 2021, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Third Party Pricing Algorithms and the Intensity of Competition," 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include Emilio Calvano, Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò, Sergio Pastorello, and Luke Garrod.

Publications have appeared most often in the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have contributed sixteen papers. Other venues with multiple publications include Economics Letters and the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, each with two papers. Additionally, there are papers in Science and Management Science.

Besides articles, Joseph E. Harrington has authored a book published by The MIT Press titled "Hub-and-Spoke Cartels" (2021), which has been cited multiple times.

Best Publications

  • Economics of regulation and antitrust

    W. Kip Viscusi;John Mitcham Vernon;Joseph Emmett Harrington

  • The Impact of Cyclical Demand Movements on Collusive Behavior

    John Haltiwanger;Joseph E. Harrington

  • Economic policy, economic performance and elections

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • OPTIMAL CORPORATE LENIENCY PROGRAMS

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • Cartel pricing dynamics in the presence of an antitrust authority

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • How Do Cartels Operate

    Joseph Emmett Harrington

  • Product Variety and Firm Agglomeration

    Jeffrey H. Fischer;Joseph E. Harrington

  • Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices*

    Joseph Emmett Harrington;Andrzej Skrzypacz

  • Centralization vs. Decentralization in a Multi-Unit Organization: A Computational Model of a Retail Chain as a Multi-Agent Adaptive System

    Myong-Hun Chang;Joseph E. Harrington

  • Endogenous cartel formation with heterogeneous firms

    Iwan Bos;Joseph E. Harrington

  • OPTIMAL CARTEL PRICING IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ANTITRUST AUTHORITY

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • AGENT-BASED MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONS *

    Myong-Hun Chang;Joseph E. Harrington

  • A Spatial Theory of Positive and Negative Campaigning

    Joseph E. Harrington;Gregory D. Hess;Gregory D. Hess

  • POST-CARTEL PRICING DURING LITIGATION

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • Avoiding market dominance: product compatibility in markets with network effects

    Jiawei Chen;Ulrich Doraszelski;Joseph E. Harrington

  • Games, Strategies and Decision Making

    Joseph Emmett Harrington

  • Cartel pricing dynamics with cost variability and endogenous buyer detection

    Joseph E. Harrington;Joe Chen

  • The Determination of Price and Output Quotas in a Heterogeneous Cartel

    Joseph E. Harrington

  • Modeling the Birth and Death of Cartels with an Application to Evaluating Competition Policy

    Joseph E. Harrington;Myong-Hun Chang

  • DEVELOPING COMPETITION LAW FOR COLLUSION BY AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL AGENTS

    Joseph E Harrington

  • Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th Edition

    David E. M. Sappington;Joseph E. Harrington;W. Kip Viscusi

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Moffitt
Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University
Vincenzo Denicolò
Vincenzo Denicolò University of Bologna
Gregory D. Hess
Gregory D. Hess Wabash College
Aviv Nevo
Aviv Nevo University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence J. White
Lawrence J. White New York University
Nicholas Economides
Nicholas Economides New York University
W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University
Damien Neven
Damien Neven Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Jong-Shi Pang
Jong-Shi Pang University of Southern California
Benjamin F. Hobbs
Benjamin F. Hobbs Johns Hopkins University

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