Paul Pecorino

Specialty Areas:

Public Economics, Law and Economics, International Economics.

Education:

Ph.D. Duke University, 1990, Economics

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Professor Pecorino has published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Public Choice, and Journal of Health Economics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, as well as the American Economic Association, the Southern Economic Association, and the American Law and Economics Association. He is also a member of the editorial board of the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy and an associate editor at the Southern Economic Journal.

Publications

• "Negative Expected Value Suits in a Signaling Model." Southern Economic Journal. (With Amy Farmer.) Forthcoming.
• Lotteries, Group Size and Public Good Provision. Journal of Public Economic Theory. (With Akram Temimi.) June 2007.
• Public Good Provision in a Repeated Game: The Role of Small Fixed Costs of Participation Public Choice (With Akram Temimi.) March 2007.
• Rent Seeking with Scarce Talent: A Model of Preemptive Hiring. Public Choice. (With Sami Dakhlia.) December 2006.
• Civil Litigation with Mandatory Discovery and Voluntary Transmission of Private Information. Journal of Legal Studies. (With Amy Farmer.) January 2005
• The Causes of Bargaining Failure: Evidence From Major League Baseball. Journal of Law and Economics. (With Amy Farmer and Victor Stango.) October 2004.
• An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining with Voluntary Transmission of Private Information. Journal of Legal Studies. (With Mark Van Boening.) January 2004.
• Bargaining with Voluntary Transmission of Private Information: Does the Use of Final Offer Arbitration Impede Settlement? Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. (With Amy Farmer.) April 2003.
• Should the U.S. Permit Re-import of Prescription Drugs From Canada? Journal of Health Economics. July 2002.
• Can By-product Lobbying Firms Compete? Journal of Public Economics. December 2001.
• Bargaining and Information: An Empirical Analysis of a Multistage Arbitration Game. Journal of Labor Economics. (With Mark Van Boening.) October 2001
• The Effect of Group Size on Public Good Provision in a Repeated Game Setting. Journal of Public Economics. April 1999.
• "Is There a Free-Rider Problem in Lobbying? Endogenous Tariffs, Trigger Strategies, and the Number of Firms." American Economic Review. June 1998.