Ralph M. Bradburd
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Office: South Academic Building Rm. 207
E-mail:
Ralph.M.Bradburd@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2995
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267
Education
Columbia University, PhD, 1976
Columbia College, B.A.,1970
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf)
Fields of Specialization
Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics
Economic Development
Research
"The Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach," (with Stephen C. Sheppard et al.), Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming, 2007.
"The Distributional Impact of Housing Discrimination in a non-Walrasian Setting," (with Stephen C. Sheppard et al.), Journal of Housing Economics, July, 2005.
"The Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach," (with Stephen Sheppard, Joseph Bergeron, Eric Engler), 2003. In submission.
"Reforming Former Public Monopolies: Water Supply," (with Raquel Alfaro and John Briscoe), in Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard Sabot, eds., Beyond Trade-offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America, (Inter-American Development Bank, Brookings Institution Press,1998).
"Privatization of Natural Monopoly Enterprises: The Regulation Issue: Reply, "Review of Industrial Organization, December, 1996.
"Privatization of Natural Monopoly Enterprises: The Regulation Issue" Review of Industrial Organization, June, 1995.
Book Review of Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Weiss, Review of Industrial Organization, April 1994.
"Wealth in Higher Educational Institutions," with Duncan Mann, Journal of Higher Education, July/August 1993.
"Bilateral Distortion in Self-Selection Problems," with P. Srinagesh and Hui-Wen Koo. Journal of Industrial Economics, June, 1992.
"Internal Rent Capture and The Profits-Concentration Relation," with Thomas Pugel and Katrina Pugh. Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1991.
"Can Small Firms Find and Defend Strategic Niches? A Test of the Porter Hypothesis," with David R. Ross. Review of Economics and Statistics, May, 1989.
"Quality Distortion by a Discriminating Monopolist," with P. Srinagesh. American Economic Review, March 1989.
"A General Measure of Multidimensional Inequality," with David R. Ross. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, November, 1988.
"The Empirical Determinants of Vertical Integration," with Richard E. Caves, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, April, 1988.
"Transaction Cost Influences on the Adjustment of Industries' Prices and Outputs," with Richard E. Caves, Review of Economics and Statistics, November, 1987.
"A Closer Look at the Effect of Market Growth on Industries' Profits," Review of Economics and Statistics, November, 1982 (with Richard E. Caves).
"Price Cost Margins in Producer Goods Industries and 'The Importance of Being Unimportant'", Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1982.
"Organizational Costs, 'Sticky Equilibria,' and Critical Levels of Concentration," Review of Economics and Statistics, February, 1982 (with A. Mead Over, Jr.). Reprinted in Industrial Organization and Public Policy, John Craven, ed., Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1982.
"Advertising and Market Concentration: A Re examination of Ornstein's Spurious Correlation Hypothesis," Southern Economic Journal, October, 1980.
"A Model of the Effects of Conglomeration and Risk Aversion on Pricing," Journal of Industrial Economics, June 1980.
"Conglomerate Power Without Market Power: The Effects of Conglomeration on a Risk Averse Quantity Adjusting Firm," American Economic Review, June 1980.
Other
Selected Work Experience
Consultant-- World Bank, various occasions, 1990-1995
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Line of Business Program, 1984-1992
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 1983-84
Consultant-- U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Health Program, 1983
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, 1980