JOHN ASKER
Professor of Economics, U.C.L.A.
Contact
Information
Department of Economics
Bunche Hall 8363
405 Hilgard Avenue, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477 USA
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Web: http://www.johnasker.com/
Research
Interests
Primary: Industrial Organization, Antitrust
Secondary: Microeconomic Theory, Applied Econometrics
Positions
Held
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Economics
College of Letters and Science, primary appointment
9/2014 - present
Professor of Management
Anderson School of Management, w.o.s. appointment
7/2015 - present
Stern School of Business, New York University
Associate Professor of Economics
Jules I. Backman Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Economics
9/2010 - 1/2015
9/2011 - 9/2014
9/2004 - 9/2010
National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate
Faculty Research Fellow
4/2012 - present
4/2009 - 4/2012
Other
Chief of Staff to the Parliamentary Secretary to the P.M., Australia
Leverett House, Harvard University, Resident Tutor in Economics
Centre for International Economics, Canberra, Economist
Reserve Bank of Australia, Cadet
3/2006 - 5/2006
2001 - 2004
3/1999 - 6/1999
12/1997 - 12/1998
Visits
Lecturer, Yale Law School
Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School
Cowles Foundation, Yale University
Federal Trade Commission
Harvard Economics Department
New York Federal Reserve Bank
CSIO, Northwestern Economics Dept.
Australian National University, RSSS
Melbourne Business School
Spring 2013
AY 2012 - 2013
AY 2012 - 2013
11/2011
10/2011
10/2008 - 5/2009
3/2008 - 4/2008
7/2006 - 12/2006
9/2006 - 12/2006
Education
Harvard University, Ph.D.
Australian National University, Bachelor of Economics (1st Class Hons, & Univ. Medal)
2004
1999
Last updated: 04/10/2017, most recent at http://www.johnasker.com/AskerCV.pdf
Articles
The Competitive Effects of Information Sharing (with Chaim Fershtman, Jihye Jeon, and Ariel
Pakes),
NBER Working paper No. 22836, 2016.
Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Best Paper in Antitrust Economics, 2017
Vertical Information Restraints: Pro- and Anti-Competitive Impacts of Minimum Advertised Price
Restrictions (with Heski Bar-Isaac),
NBER Working paper No. 22771, 2016.
Diagnosing Foreclosure due to Exclusive Dealing,
Journal of Industrial Economics, 64(3), 375-410, 2016.
Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards - Best Academic Paper, Economics, 2017
Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? (with Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander
Ljungqvist),
Review of Financial Studies, 28(2), 342-390, 2015.
Tomorrow’s antitrust rulings on conditional pricing, (with Selvin Akkus-Clemens),
Monopoly Matters, 12(1), 8-12, 2014.
Dynamic Inputs and (Mis)Allocation, (with Allan Collard Wexler and Jan De Loecker),
Journal of Political Economy, 122(5), 1013-1063, 2014.
Raising Retailers’ Profits: On Vertical Practices and the Exclusion of Rivals, (with Heski Bar-Isaac),
American Economic Review, 104(2), 672-686, 2014.
Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for Antitrust Scholarship, Best Economics Article of 2014
Vertical Practices and the Exclusion of Rivals Post Eaton, (with Shannon Seitz),
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, July 2013(2), 2013.
A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel,
American Economic Review, 100(3), 724-762, 2010.
Association of Competition Economics Prize: Best Paper in Competition Economics published in 2010.
Reprinted in Greene, William (Ed.), Applied Econometrics (Volume III), Routledge, 2016.
Competition and the Structure of Vertical Relationships in Capital Markets, (with Alexander Ljungqvist),
Journal of Political Economy, 118(3), 599-647, 2010.
Subsidies, Entry and the Distribution of R&D Investment, (with Mariagiovanna Baccara),
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28(3), 254-270, 2010.
Procurement When Both Price and Quality Matter, (with Estelle Cantillon),
RAND Journal of Economics, 41(1), 1-34, 2010.
Bidding Rings,
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, 2010.
Leniency and Post-Cartel Market Conduct: Preliminary Evidence from Parcel Tanker Shipping,
International Journal of Industrial Organization (Papers and Proceedings of E.A.R.I.E. Conference
2009), 28(4), 407-414, 2010.
Subsidizing (and Taxing) Business Procurement,
Journal of Public Economics, 92(7), 1630-1643, 2008.
Properties of Scoring Auctions, (with Estelle Cantillon),
RAND Journal of Economics, 39(1), 69-85, 2008.
Teaching Auction Strategy using Experiments administered via the Internet, ( with Brit Grosskopf,
Carl N. McKinney, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Georg Weizsacker)
Journal of Economic Education, 35(4), pp 330-342, 2004.
Bidding up, Buying out and Cooling-off: An examination of auctions with withdrawal rights,
Economic Theory, v16(3), 585-611, 2000.
Reprinted in Cason, T. and C. Noussair (Eds), Advances in Experimental Markets, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Other
Writing
Contributor: Proving Antitrust Damages: Legal and Economic Issues, 3rd Edition, American Bar
Association, forthcoming.
Contributor: Panel discussion on advanced empirical methods, Annual Proceedings of the 42nd
Fordham Competition Law Institute Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy 2015,
ed. James Keyte (2016), Fordham Competition Law Institute.
Review of: An Introduction to Auction Theory by Flavio M. Menezes and Paulo K. Monteiro,
Economic Record, (2007), 83, pp.104-05.
Review of: The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings, by Robert C. Marshall and
Leslie M. Marx, Concurrences No 2-2013, (2013), art. No 52089, p. 224.
Amicus
Briefs
Amicus Curiae Brief of Economists and Professors in Support of Petitioner for Writ of Certiorari
in Motorola Mobility LLC vs. Au Optronics Corp., US Supreme Court, Case No. 14-1122, filed
4/16/2015.
Amicus Curiae Brief of Economists and Professors in Support of Appellant in Motorola Mobility
LLC vs. Au Optronics Corp. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Case No. 09-cv-6610, filed 12/17/2014.
Amicus Curiae Brief of Economists and Professors in Support of Appellant’s Petition for Rehearing
En Banc in Motorola Mobility LLC vs. Au Optronics Corp. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Case No.
09-cv-6610, filed 04/24/2014.
Amicus Curiae Brief of 118 Law, Economics, and Business Professors and the AAI in Support of
Petitioners in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, US Supreme Court, Case No.
12-416, filed 1/29/2013.
Teaching
PhD Students: (Graduation Year, Institution, Initial Placement)
Ali Yurukoglu (2009, NYU Stern, Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Matthew Grennan (2010, NYU Stern, U. Toronto, Rotman School of Business)
Anna Ingster (2010, NYU FAS, Auburn University)
Hong Luo (2011, NYU Stern, Harvard Business School)
Joan Farre Mensa (2011, NYU FAS, Harvard Business School)
Lai Jiang (2012, NYU Stern, UBC Sauder School of Business)
Selvin Akkus-Clemens (2013, NYU Stern, Bates White LLC)
Bernardo S. da Silveira (2013, NYU FAS, Washington U. St Louis Olin School of Business)
Krzysztof Wozniak (2013, NYU Stern, FRB Board of Governors)
Jason Hong (2014, NYU Stern, U.S.D.O.J. Antitrust Division)
Sandy Yu (2015, NYU Stern, Post-Doc UC Berkeley Haas School of Business)
Joseph Kuehn (2015, UCLA, California State East Bay)
Laura Nurski (2015, KU Leuven, KBC Bank N.V.)
Dennis Kuo (2016, UCLA, Institute for Defense Analyses)
Malika Krishna (2016, NYU Stern, Cornerstone Research)
Tobias Salz (2016, NYU FAS, Columbia University)
Jihye Jeon (2017, NYU Stern, Boston University)
Other
NYU Stern ExecEd J-15,‘Great Professor’ Award
2014
Editorial
Service
Co-Editor, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Editor, RAND Journal of Economics
Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics
Associate Editor, RAND Journal of Economics
Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization
9/2014 onward
3/2013 - 9/2014
6/2010 - 2/2013
1/2012 - 2/2013
8/2009 - 1/2012
Grants
NSF: “Market power and resource allocation” (with Allan Collard Wexler and Jan de Loecker)
$448,875.
2016 - 18
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation: “Collusion in auctions” (with Chaim Fershtman and Ariel
Pakes), $80,400
2013 - 17
Other
Professional
Activities
Senior Advisor: Cornerstone Research
2014 onward
Advisor: NYAG Antitrust Division, on select matters
2012 - 2013
Consultant:
Federal Trade Commission
(In the Matter of Victrex plc, Invibio Limited, & Invibio, Inc.)
Federal Communications Commission (In the merger of AT&T & DTV )
2015 - 2016
2014 - 2015
Expert report and testimony:
Healing Touch Day Spas v. Dermalogica (for Dermalogica; Lesnick Prince & Pappas LLP)
Expert report:
WTO DS353, United States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft
(for EU; Sidley Austin LLP)
2015
2006 - 2009