R. Preston McAfee

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Sunnyvale, CA 94089

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California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1200 East California Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91125

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1.

What is a Barrier to Entry?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2010
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Michael A. Williams
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Competition Economics LLC
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Private v. Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Strategic Analysis

Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-20, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 06-4
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2012
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University
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Private and Public Enforcement, Antitrust Laws, Strategic Abuse, Free-riding, Information Revelation, Social Welfare

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The Unintended Effects of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002

Research in Accounting Regulation, Vol. 22, No.1, pp. 18-28, 2009
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Nicholas V. Vakkur, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Fred Kipperman
Trident University, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, Sarbanes Oxley, accounting, accounting regulation, regulation, financial market regulation, business law, corporate governance

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Do Sunk Costs Matter?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jul 2007
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University
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Sunk Costs, Rationality, Information, Reputation, Constraints

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How to Set Minimum Acceptable Bids, with an Application to Real Estate Auctions

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How to Set Minimum Acceptable Bids, with an Application to Real Estate Auctions

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jul 2002
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Daniel C. Quan and Daniel R. Vincent
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Cornell University - School of Hotel Administration and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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Auctions, Optimal Reserve Price, Real Estate

How to Set Minimum Acceptable Bids, with an Application to Real Estate Auctions

Posted: 13 Sep 2002
Daniel C. Quan, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Daniel R. Vincent
Cornell University - School of Hotel Administration, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and University of Maryland - Department of Economics

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Auctions, Optimal Reserve Price, Real Estate

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Price Discrimination and Market Power

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
Shane Carbonneau, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University
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Fraud Cycles

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2014
Jiong Gong, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Michael A. Williams
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and Competition Economics LLC
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fraud, cycle, steady state, wavelet

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The Strategic Abuse of the Antitrust Laws

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Nicholas V. Vakkur
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and Trident University
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Evolution of the Market for Air-Travel Information

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Aug 2003
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Kenneth Hendricks
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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Market Power, Market Definition, Computer Reservation Systems, Airlines

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Private Antitrust Litigation: Procompetitive or Anticompetitive?

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-18
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Aug 2005
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University
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Improving Federal Procurement: The Benefits of Vendor-Neutral Contract Specifications

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Feb 2006
R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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A Theory of Bilateral Oligopoly

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Kenneth Hendricks
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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The Role of Excess Capacity in Determining Market Power in Natural Gas Transportation Markets

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Philip Reny
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Does Large Price Discrimination Imply Great Market Power?

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-19
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Aug 2005
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University
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Price discrimination, Market power, Coefficient of variation, Antitrust

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Continuing Wars of Attrition

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Oct 2006
Murali Agastya, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
University of Sydney - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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War of Attrition, Rational deterrence theory, Asymmetric contests

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Pricing Damaged Goods

Economics Discussion Paper No. 2007-2
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Oct 2010
R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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Signaling Character in Electoral Competition

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Navin Kartik, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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electoral competition, signaling, character, integrity, median voter theorem, policy divergence

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Feints

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Sep 2004
Kenneth Hendricks, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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Feint, misdirection, sender-receiver games, games, beliefs, conflict, war, Normandy, Calais

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Continuing Wars of Attrition

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Thomas Wiseman
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
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Split-Award Contracts with Investment

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Feb 2011
Jiong Gong, Li Jianpei, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs
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split-award, generalized second-price auctions, investment

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The Tradeoff of the Commons

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 96, No. 3-4, 2012
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 24 May 2012
Alan D. Miller, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
Faculty of Law, Western University and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs

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Tragedy of the Commons, Spectrum, Open Access, Appointments, Property Rights, Reservations

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Interpreting Concentration Indices in the Secondary Market for Natural Gas Transportation: The Implication of Pipeline Residual Rights

Energy Economics, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2008
Posted: 19 Nov 2008
Michael J. Doane, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Michael A. Williams and Ashish Nayyar
Competition Economics LLC, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, Competition Economics LLC and ERS Group

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Evaluating and Enhancing Competition in the Interstate Natural Gas Transportation Industry

Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2004
Posted: 19 Nov 2008
Michael J. Doane, R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee and Michael A. Williams
Competition Economics LLC, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs and Competition Economics LLC

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Auctioning Entry into Tournaments

Posted: 03 Jun 1999
Richard L. Fullerton, R. Preston McAfee and R. Preston McAfee
U.S. Air Force Academy - Department of Economics & Geography and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs

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Tariffying Auctions

Posted: 02 Dec 1998
R. Preston McAfee, R. Preston McAfee, Wendy Takacs and Daniel R. Vincent
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesYahoo! - Yahoo! Research Labs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) - Department of Economics and University of Maryland - Department of Economics

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