University of Victoria Webpage
Main Publications
1. Curbing
cream-skimming: Evidence on enrolment incentives (with Do Han Kim, and Gerald Marschke). Labor Economics. Forthcoming. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3909, CEPR Discussion Paper 7121.
2. Unpriced Quality. Economics
Letters. Forthcoming.
3.
The Impact of Price discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the concert
industry (with
M. Pagliero). Review
of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. CEPR working paper 7120.
4.
Does responsive pricing smooth demand
shocks?
(with M. Pagliero).
Applied Economics.
Forthcoming. CEPR Discussion Paper 6662.
5. Frictional
Matching: Evidence from Law School Admission (with M.
Pagliero). Economics Letters. 108 (2010), p. 208-211.
6.
Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing
Policies (with
M. Pagliero). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations. 75 (2010) 235–249. CEPR Discussion Paper 6663.
7.
Suspense, (with Li, Hao and W. Chan). Economic Journal. (January 2009) 119, p.24-46. CEPR Discussion Paper 3251.
8.
A General Test for Distortions in
Performance Measurses (with G. Marschke). August 2008. Review of Economics and Statistics.
(3) 428-441.
9.
Do consumers care about how prices are set? (with
M. Pagliero). February 2008. International Journal of the Economics of
Business. 15 (1): 27-43.
10. Responsive Pricing (with M. Pagliero). Economic Theory. (2008)
34: 235–259. (Online publication March 07.)
11. An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit
Performance Incentives (with
12. Dynamics
of Performance Measurement Systems.
(with G.
13. Some Economics of Ticket Resale. Journal
of Economic Perspectives. Spring
2003, 17 (2) p.85-97. Reprinted in
“Recent Developments in Cultural Economics,” volume edited by Ruth Towse, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
14. Ticket Pricing Under Demand Uncertainty. Journal
of Law and Economics. October 2003, XLVI (2), p. 627-52.
15. Performance Incentives with Award Constraints, (with Gerald Marschke). Journal of
Human Resources. Vol
38 n.4 2002. p. 812-845.
16. An Economic Guide to Ticket Pricing in the Entertainment
Industry.
Louvain Economic Review. (66) 2 2000 p. 167-192.
17. Sequential Screening (with Li, Hao). Review of Economic
Studies. (67) 2000. p.697-717.
18. Timing of Clearance Sales and Competition. (with Li, Hao). Journal
of Business October 1999.
19. Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal
Training Program
(with G. Marschke). American Economic
Review, Papers and Proceedings. May, 1997. p.383-88.
Public
Policy and Other Refereed Publications
20. Making Government Accountable: Lessons
from a Federal Job Training Program (with G.
Marschke). Public Administration
Review. Sept-Oct 2007, 905-16.
21. Setting the
Standard in Performance Measurement Systems. (with
C Heinrich and G. Marschke). International
Public Management Journal. 2005,
8(3), p. 1–27. Winner of the June Pallot Award
(prize $1000) for Best Article published in IPMJ in 2005.
22. Benchmarking Performance (with G.
23. Performance Funding in Federal Agencies:
A Case Study of a Federal Job Training Program (with G. Marschke). Public Budgeting and Finance. 2003,
fall issues (Vol. 23:3).
24.
Financial Immunization, Market
Incompleteness and Wavelets (with J.M. Lasry, J.M. Morel, and
C.W. Yip). Compte Rendu de l'Academie des
Sciences. Serie I, Mathematique,
1993, 316 p. 341-44.
25.
Linearization of the Portfolio Hedging
Problem on Wavelet Basis (with I. Ekeland, J.M.Morel,
and C.W. Yip). Compte Rendu de l'Academie des
Sciences. Serie I, Mathematique,
1993, 316 p 399-402.
Book and Book Chapters
26. The Performance of Performance Standards.
Editor James J. Heckman, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Pascal Courty, Gerald
Marschke, Jeffrey Smith. 2011. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
27. U.S. Employment and Training Programs and Performance Standards
System Design (with Carolyn J. Heinrich, Gerald Marschke, and
Jeffrey Smith). In The Performance of
Performance Standards. Chapter 2, p. 15-30. 2011.
28. The JTPA Incentive System: Implementing Performance Measurement
and Funding (with Gerald Marschke). In The Performance of Performance
Standards. Chapter 4, p. 67-98.
2011.
29. Setting the Standards: Performance Targets and Benchmarks (with Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Gerald
Marschke). In The Performance of
Performance Standards. Chapter 5, p.
99-128. 2011.
30. Measuring Government Performance: An Overview of Dysfunctional
Responses
(with Gerald Marschke). In The
Performance of Performance Standards.
Chapter 7, p. 211-328. 2011.
31. Behavioral Pricing in the Performing Art. (with M. Pagliero). In, Handbook of the Economics of Art and
Culture, Volume 2, Edited by Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby, in the
Handbook in Economics series edited as a whole by Kenneth Arrow and Michael Intriligator.
(Forthcoming 2011.)
32. Moral Hazard Under Incentive Systems: The Case of a Federal Bureaucracy (with G. Marschke). In Advance in The Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic
Growth. Ed. Gary Libecap JAI Press, Greenwich,
Vol. 7, 1996. P 157-90.
33.
Identical price categories in oligopolistic
markets. Innocent behaviour or collusive practice? (with N. Fabra, M.
Motta, and C. Fumagalli). AGCM
Collana Temi e Problemi, Vol 11, June 2006.