Simon GB Cowan
D.Phil., University of Oxford
University Lecturer in Economics
College or Institution: Worcester College
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Research Interests
Summary: Industrial economics; privatisation and regulation; environmental economics; strategic trade policy.
My research in industrial organization covers: (i) the welfare effects of monopoly pricing, including the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination and the characterization of the social costs of monopoly power using the curvature of the demand function; and (ii) the consequences of volatile demand and cost conditions for the design of pricing policies for regulated industries. I am also interested in environmental economics and in the theory of strategic trade policy.
Courses Taught at the University
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Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Third-Degree Price Discrimination and Consumer Surplus (2009)
- When does third-degree price discrimination reduce social welfare, and when does it raise it? (2008)
- The welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination with non-linear demand functions (2007)
- Output and Welfare Effects in the Classic Monopoly Price Discrimination Problem (2007)
- The welfare economics of optional water metering with asymmetric information (2006)
- Demand shifts and imperfect competition (2004)
- The welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination (2004)
- Utility Regulation and Risk Allocation: The Roles of Marginal Cost Pricing and Futures Markets (2002)
- Marginal Cost Pricing versus Insurance (2002)
- Commodity Taxation as Insurance Against Price Risk (2002)
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