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.

Selected Publications

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  “Fairness in an Embedded Ultimatum Game.” (With Mark Van Boening.) Journal of Law and Economics. Forthcoming.

   

  “Is the Coach Paid too Much?: Coaching Salaries and the NCAA Cartel.” (With Amy Farmer.)  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Forthcoming.

   

  “By-product Lobbying with Rival Public Goods.” European Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming.

   

  “Monopolistic Competition, Growth and Public Good Provision.” Economic Journal. January 2009.

   

  “Public Goods, Group Size and the Degree of Rivalry.” Public Choice. January 2009.

   

  “Import Protection Bias.” Review of International Economics. May 2008.

   

   “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.

   

   “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.