George Symeonidis

 

Contact details

Department of Economics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK

Tel.: +44 1206 872511

E-mail: symeonid@essex.ac.uk

 

 

Publications

Book

·               The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry, MIT Press, 2002.

 

Articles in refereed journals

·               "Competition and the Relative Productivity of Large and Small Firms", Applied Economics, vol. 43 (2011), pp. 3253-3264. [Abstract]

·               "Downstream Merger and Welfare in a Bilateral Oligopoly", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 28 (2010), pp. 230-243. [Abstract]

·               "Asymmetric Multiproduct Firms, Profitability and Welfare", Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 61 (2009), pp. 139-150. [Abstract]

·               "The Effect of Competition on Wages and Productivity: Evidence from the UK", Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 90 (2008), pp. 134-146. [Abstract]

·               "Downstream Competition, Bargaining and Welfare", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 247-270. [Abstract]

·               "Piecemeal Multilateral Environmental Policy Reforms under Asymmetric Oligopoly" (with Sajal Lahiri), Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 9 (2007), pp. 885-899. [Abstract]

·               "In Which Industries is Collusion More Likely? Evidence from the UK", Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 51 (2003), pp. 45-74. [Abstract]

·               "Comparing Bertrand and Cournot Equilibria in a Differentiated Duopoly with Product R&D", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 21 (2003), pp. 39-55. [Abstract]

·               "Quality Heterogeneity and Welfare", Economics Letters, vol. 78 (2003), pp. 1-7. [Abstract]

·               "Cartel Stability with Multiproduct Firms", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 20 (2002), pp. 339-352. Reprinted in G. Norman, ed., Recent Developments in Monopoly and Competition Policy (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series), Edward Elgar, 2008. [Abstract]

·               "Price Competition and Market Structure: the Impact of Cartel Policy on Concentration in the UK", Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 48 (2000), pp. 1-26.  Reprinted in M. C. Levenstein and S. W. Salant, eds, Cartels (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series), Edward Elgar, 2007. [Abstract]

·               "Price and Non-Price Competition with Endogenous Market Structure", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 9 (2000), pp. 53-83. [Abstract]

·               "Price Competition, Non-Price Competition and Market Structure: Theory and Evidence from the UK", Economica, vol. 67 (2000), pp. 437-456. [Abstract]

·               "Cartel Stability in Advertising-intensive and R&D-intensive Industries", Economics Letters, vol. 62 (1999), pp. 121-129. [Abstract]

 

Book chapters and other publications

·               "Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence", in M. C. Levenstein and S. W. Salant, eds, Cartels (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series), Edward Elgar, 2007. Also available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2816. [Abstract]

·               "Competition Policy", in A. Kuper and J. Kuper, eds, Social Science Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2004.

·               "Markets", in A. Kuper and J. Kuper, eds, Social Science Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2004.

·               Industrial Economics, University of London Press, 1999. Second edition, 2008.

·               "The Evolution of UK Cartel Policy and its Impact on Market Conduct and Structure", in Stephen Martin, ed., Competition Policies in Europe, North-Holland, 1998.

·               "Innovation, Firm Size and Market Structure: Schumpeterian Hypotheses and Some New Themes", OECD Economic Studies, no. 27 (1997). [Abstract]

 

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