Ralph M. Bradburd
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976
B.A., Columbia College, 1970
Fields
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Country Experience
Zimbabwe
Publications and Working Papers
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Ralph M. Bradburd (with Raquel Alfaro and John Briscoe), "Reforming Former
Public Monopolies: The
Case of Water Supply," in Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard
Sabot, eds., Beyond Trade-
offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America, forthcoming,
1998.
__________, (with Eric Schulz) "Why Things Have To Get a Lot Worse
Before They Can Get Better: Institutions, Investments, Crisis and Reform,"
mimeo, September 1996.
__________, (with Brian Levy) "Zimbabwe's New Entrepreneurs: An Emerging
Success Story?" October 1995.
__________, "Privatization of Natural Monopoly Enterprises: The Regulation
Issue," Review of Industrial Organization, June 1995.
__________, (with P. Srinagesh and Hui-Wen Koo) "Bilateral Distortion
in Self-Selection Problems," Journal of Industrial Economics, June 1992.
__________, (with Thomas Pugel and Katrina Pugh) "Internal Rent Capture
and The Profits-Concentration Relation," Review of Economics and Statistics,
August 1991.
__________, (with David A. Ross) "Regulation and Deregulation in Industrialized
Countries: Some Lessons for LDCs," World Bank Working Paper #699, June
1991.
__________, (with David R. Ross) "Can Small Firms Find and Defend Strategic
Niches? A Test of the Porter Hypothesis," Review of Economics and Statistics,
May 1989.
__________, (with P. Srinagesh) "Quality Distortion by a Discriminating
Monopolist," American Economic Review, March 1989.
__________, (with David R. Ross) "A General Measure of Multidimensional
Inequality," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, November 1988.
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Economics