Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control (2009)
Innes, Robert, Hamilton, Stephen F.
This article considers vertical restraints in a setting in which duopoly retailers each sell more than one manufactured good. Vertical restraints by a dominant manufacturer enable the firm to acquire...
Coming to the Nuisance: Revisiting Spur in a Model of Location Choice (2009)
Building on recent work of Pitchford and Snyder (PS, 2003), this article models effects of alternative property rights regimes on sequential location decisions of two players. A new resident decides...
Is There a Nexus between Poverty and Environment in Rural India? (2008)
Haimanti Bhattacharya, Robert Innes
make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Is There a Nexus between Poverty and Environment in...
Comparing Tax Expenditures and Direct Subsidies: The Role of Legislative Committee Structure (2007)
Dhammika Dharmapala, Aaron Edlin, Robert Innes, Kirsten L, John Quigley, Todd S, ...
This paper analyzes the impact of legislative committee structure on policy outcomes, comparing a `tax committee' (enacting tax expenditures) and a decentralized system of specialized committees...
Naked Slotting Fees for Vertical Control of Multi-Product Retail Markets (2006)
Innes, Robert, Hamilton, Stephen F.
Slotting fees are fixed charges paid by food manufacturers to retailers for access to the retail market. This note considers this practice in the context of multi-product markets with imperfectly...
Violator Avoidance Activities and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement (2001)
Laws often encourage violators to self‐report their behavior. This article studies self‐reporting enforcement regimes when violators can engage in “avoidance”
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Strategic Buyers and Exclusionary Contracts.
Innes, Robert, Sexton, Richard J
This paper characterizes equilibrium exclusionary contracts between buyers, an incumbent firm, and a potential entrant when buyers can either vertically integrate or contract with the outside...
ENTRY DETERRENCE BY NON-HORIZONTAL MERGER -super-*
We study when and how pure non-horizontal mergers, whether cross-product or vertical, can deter new entry. Organizational mergers implicitly commit firms to more aggressive price competition. Because...
Economic Incentives and Residential Waste Management in Taiwan: An Empirical Investigation
This paper presents an empirical study of how three waste management policies have affected residential waste generation and recycling behavior in Taiwan over the past decade. The three policies are...
This paper characterizes the optimal financial contract between a risk neutral entrepreneur and risk neutral lender/investors when the entrepreneur has limited liability, there is moral hazard, and...
A Theory of Consumer Boycotts under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
This article models strategic interactions between non-identical duopolistic firms and a public interest/environmental organisation (EO) that promotes 'green' production practices by threatening...
Inducing Innovation in the Environmental Technology of Oligopolistic Firms.
This paper characterizes environmental regulations which induce polluting Bertrand competitors to invest efficiently in environmental R&D. Post-innovation benefits to raising rivals' costs provide...
Fines, Appeals and Liability in Public Enforcement with Stochastic Damage and Asymmetric Information
This paper studies an enforcement game between a regulator and firms that can cause harmful accidents. The distribution of potential accident damage is private information to the firms, and realized...
Financial Contracting under Risk Neutrality, Limited Liability and Ex ante Asymmetric Information.
This paper derives equilibrium financial contract forms in a risk-neutral capital market with asymmetrically informed borrowers/entrepreneurs and investors. In doing so, the analysis generalizes the...
Crop Insurance in a Political Economy: An Alternative Perspective on Agricultural Policy
Lawmakers often subsidize farmers in times of financial distress. This article models this political impulse as a constraint on government farm policy, describing how "ex ante" government farm...
Stop and Go Agricultural Policies with a Land Market
This article studies the design of farm policy in the presence of asymmetric information about farmers' productivity, a government objective to insure farmers a minimum "parity" income, an endogenous...
The Economics of Livestock Waste and Its Regulation.
This article develops a spatial model of regional livestock production and three attendant environmental effects: spills from animal waste stores: nutrient runoff due to the application of manure to...
Market failures and second-best analysis with a focus on nutrition, credit, and incomplete markets
Innes, Robert, B. L. Gardner, G. C. Rausser
This chapter studies second-best models of nutritional externalities, credit, and incomplete markets for risk, developing implications for welfare-improving government policy using primitive economic...
Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands.
Innes, Robert, Polasky, Stephen, Tschirhart, John
Preserving endangered species on private land benefits the public, but may confer cost on landowners if property is 'taken.' Government compensation to landowners can offset costs, although the...
Violator Avoidance Activities and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement.
Laws often encourage violators to self-report their behavior. This article studies self-reporting enforcement regimes when violators can engage in "avoidance" activities--activities which lower an...
Two-Season Subsistence Farming, Urban Food Subsidies and Optimal Agricultural Policy.
This paper extends the household production literature by developing and analyzing a two-season model of subsistence farm choices wherein the two seasons correspond to times of planting and harvest....
An Empirical Exploration of the Population-Environment Nexus in India
Haimanti Bhattacharya, Robert Innes
This article presents an empirical study of population growth and environmental change using cross-section district-level data from South, Central, and West India. Environmental change is measured...
Laws often encourage violators to self-report their crimes rather than subject themselves to probabilistic law enforcement. This paper studies the merits of self-reporting when violators otherwise...
Takings, Compensation, and Equal Treatment for Owners of Developed and Undeveloped Property.
This article constructs an economic model of government takings in which some property owners develop their land earlier than others. Because it is efficient for the government to "take" undeveloped...
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
This study analyzes the relationship between market concentration and new product introductions using an extensive annual panel data set covering the period 1983 to 2004 from the US processed food...
Bi-Directional Links Between Population Growth and the Environment: Evidence From India
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
This paper presents an empirical study of population growth and environmental change using cross-sectional district-level data from South, Central and West India. Environmental change is measured...
Determinants and Impact of Private Politics: An Empirical Analysis
This paper studies the links between private politics, environmental performance of firms and regulatory activity by the government. Following the terminology coined by Baron (2001), "private...
Guerrero, Santiago, Innes, Robert
State-level statutes provide firms that engage in environmental self-audits, and that self-report their environmental violations, with a variety of different regulatory rewards, including "immunity"...
This paper studies the potential effects of political pressure on environmental law enforcement in the Unites States. Prior work, most notably the key works of Deily and Gray, document the...
Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control
Hamilton, Stephen F., Innes, Robert
This paper considers vertical restraints in a multi-market retail setting in which each retailer sells the complete line of manufactured goods. Vertical restraints by one manufacturer on the...
Is There a Nexus between Poverty and Environment in Rural India?
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between rural poverty and environmental change using district-level data from South, Central and West India. Unlike prior works, this...
Sam, Abdoul G., Innes, Robert, Khanna, Madhu
EPA-sponsored voluntary pollution reduction programs (VPR) have gained increased prominence in U.S. environmental policy. However, as commitments to these programs are not enforceable by design, the...
Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs (VPRs) Spur Innovation in Environmental Technology
Carrion-Flores, Carmen, Innes, Robert, Sam, Abdoul G.
In the context of the EPA’'s 33/50 program, we study whether a VPR can prompt firms to develop new environmental technologies that yield future emission reduction benefits. Because pollutant...
VOLUNTARY POLLUTION ABATEMENT: TESTING ALTERNATIVE THEORIES
We broaden the existing empirical literature on environmental regulation and voluntary pollution abatement programs by testing the effects of implicit boycott threats and a firm's participation in a...
AJAE Appendix: An Empirical Exploration of the Population-Environment Nexus in India
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
This study analyzes the relationship between market concentration and new product introductions using an extensive annual panel data set covering the period 1983 to 2004 from the US processed food...
This paper studies determinants and effects of firms' participation in the 33/50 program, which is a voluntary pollution reduction (VPR) program initiated by government regulators. We examine a wide...
This paper studies determinants and effects of firms’ participation in the 33/50 program, which is a voluntary pollution reduction (VPR) program initiated by government regulators. We examine a...
TAX REFORM AND BEEF COW REPLACEMENT STRATEGY
This paper models optimal beef cow replacement strategy in a stochastic environment under U.S. income tax rules effective before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Under each tax regime, the...
RISK AND RETURN IN AGRICULTURE: EVIDENCE FROM AN EXPLICIT-FACTOR ARBITRAGE PRICING MODEL
Bjornson, Bruce, Innes, Robert
This article develops and estimates an explicit-factor Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) model in an endeavor to uncover (a) the systematic risk properties of returns to agricultural assets, (b) the...
Vertical restraints and horizontal control
Robert Innes, Stephen F. Hamilton
This article considers vertical restraints in a setting in which duopoly retailers each sell more than one manufactured good. Vertical restraints by a dominant manufacturer enable the firm to acquire...
The Economics of Safe Drinking Water
This paper studies a drinking water market in which a water company, faced with random contamination, chooses a treatment system, treatment levels, and whether to notify consumers that they should...
Coming to the Nuisance: Revisiting Spur in a Model of Location Choice
Building on recent work of Pitchford and Snyder (PS, 2003), this article models effects of alternative property rights regimes on sequential location decisions of two players. A new resident decides...
The Economics of Takings and Compensation When Land and Its Public Use Value Are in Private Hands
Before governments can "take" private property, property owners can often alter the public use value. This article models this capability and studies its implicationsf or takings compensation. Tying...
Abdoul G. Sam, Madhu Khanna, Robert Innes
This paper examines, empirically, the mechanism by which a voluntary pollution reduction program (VPR) achieves pollution reductions. We find that participation in the 33/50 program, the U.S....