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Overview

Robert D. Willig is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting areas within economics and business, focusing particularly on the analysis of markets, competition, and digital platforms.

The scientist's main fields of study include Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work drills down further into subfields such as Strategy and Management and Economics and Econometrics.

Core topics addressed in their research are:

  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Diverse Legal and Medical Studies

Notable recent publications include the following paper:

  • "Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert D. Willig encompass:

  • Jonathan Barnett
  • Michael R. Baye
  • James Cooper
  • Daniel A. Crane
  • Kenneth G. Elzinga

The SSRN Electronic Journal is a regular venue for the scientist's work, with multiple contributions to this platform.

Best Publications

  • Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure

    William Jack Baumol;Elizabeth E Bailey;John C Panzar;Robert D Willig

  • Consumer's Surplus Without Apology

    Robert D. Willig

  • Economies of Scale in Multi-Output Production

    John C. Panzar;Robert D. Willig

  • Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization

    Carl Shapiro;Robert D. Willig

  • Fixed Costs, Sunk Costs, Entry Barriers, and Sustainability of Monopoly

    William J. Baumol;Robert D. Willig

  • An Economic Definition of Predation: Pricing and Product Innovation

    Janusz A Ordover;Robert D Willig

  • Free entry and the sustainability of natural monopoly

    John C. Panzar;Robert D. Willig

  • Contestability: Developments Since the Book

    William J. Baumol;Robert D. Willig

  • Weak Invisible Hand Theorems on the Sustainability of Multiproduct Natural Monopoly

    William J Baumol;Elizabeth E Bailey;Robert D Willig

  • Multiproduct Technology and Market Structure

    Robert D. Willig

  • Pareto-Superior Nonlinear Outlay Schedules

    Robert D. Willig

  • On the Antitrust Treatment of Production Joint Ventures

    Carl Shapiro;Robert D. Willig

  • Do Entry Conditions Vary across Markets

    Timothy F. Bresnahan;Peter C. Reiss;Robert Willig;George J. Stigler

  • Antitrust for high-technology industries: assessing research joint ventures and mergers

    Janusz A. Ordover;Robert D. Willig

  • Merger Analysis, Industrial Organization Theory, and Merger Guidelines

    Robert D. Willig;Steven C. Salop;F. M. Scherer

  • Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure

    Stylianos Perrakis;William J. Baumol;John C. Panzar;Robert D. Willig

  • Industry Performance Gradient Indexes

    Robert E Dansby;Robert D Willig

  • Transfer principles in income redistribution

    Peter C. Fishburn;Robert D. Willig

  • Herfindahl Concentration, Rivalry, and Mergers

    Janusz A. Ordover;Alan O. Sykes;Robert D. Willig

  • Incremental consumer's surplus and hedonic price adjustment

    Robert D Willig;Robert D Willig

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Baumol
William J. Baumol New York University
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Daniel L. Rubinfeld University of California, Berkeley
Vernon L. Smith
Vernon L. Smith Chapman University
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Jean-Jacques Laffont University of Southern California
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Alan O. Sykes
Alan O. Sykes Stanford University
Steven Shavell
Steven Shavell Harvard University

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