- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of Economics
Jeffrey Robert Church
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
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| W2023 - ECON 667 - Industrial Organization | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - ECON 357 - Intermediate Economic Theory - Microeconomics II | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - ECON 571 - Competition Policy | ||||||||||
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About Me
Dr. Church has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from the University of Calgary. He was the 1995-1996 T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau. His published research includes articles on merger simulation, network economics, strategic competition, entry deterrence, intellectual property rights, and competition policy. He is the coauthor of a book on the regulation of natural gas pipelines in Canada, a text in industrial organization, and a monograph for the European Commission on the competitive impacts of vertical and conglomerate mergers. He has acted as an expert on regulatory and competition policy matters.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the field of industrial organization, with an emphasis on network externalities, competition policy, and regulatory economics. Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University) and I have a long-standing research programme investigating network externalities in systems composed of a hardware good that requires complementary software—the production of which is characterized by long-run fixed costs and for which consumers have a taste for variety. Recent work in this area considers the relationship between indirect network effects and network externalities and the pricing and introduction of competitive software upgrades. Research projects in competition policy include the role of entry in merger analysis; the implications of network externalities, innovation, and intellectual property rights for competition policy; the impact of changes in market structure on the effectiveness of tacit collusion; the use of different demand systems and estimation of the statistical significance of price changes in unilateral merger analysis; and antitrust analysis of vertical and conglomerate mergers. Research projects in regulatory economics include optimal tolling on multicommodity oil pipelines and the economics of Alberta's unique approach to electricity restructuring.
Below are listed representative publications. For a more complete list, please see my CV or visit my Google Scholar page.
Working Papers
#2015-07 - Residential Wireline Telecommunications Services in Canada: Primary Exchange Services and Broadband 2015
By Church, Jeffrey Robert and Wilkins, Andrew
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#2014-34 - Residential Wireline Telecommunications Services in Canada: Primary Exchange Services and Broadband
By Church, Jeffrey Robert and Wilkins, Andrew
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#2012-07 - Capacity Constraints in Durable Goods Monopoly: Coase and Hotelling
By Boyce, John, Church, Jeffrey Robert and Vojtassak, Lucia
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Publications
Book
- Church, Jeffrey Robert. The Impact of Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers on Competition European Commission, 2005. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Ware, Roger. Industrial Organization: A Strategic Approach San Francisco, CA: IRWIN/McGraw-Hill, 2000. Print.
Book Chapter
- Church, Jeffrey Robert. "Conglomerate Mergers" Issues in Competition Law and Policy Chicago: American Bar Association, 2008. 1503-1552. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert. "Vertical Mergers" Issues in Competition Law and Policy Chicago: American Bar Association, 2008. 1455-1502. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Gandal, N.. "Platform Competition in Telecommunications" Handbook of Telecommunications, Volume 2. M.Cave, S. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang eds North-Holland, 2005. 119-155. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert, Love, H.A., Abere, A. and Capps, O. Jr.. "Mergers and Market Power: Estimating the Effect on Market Power of the Proposed Acquisition by The Coca-Cola Company of Cadbury-Schweppes’ Carbonated Soft Drinks in Canada" in D. Slottje ed., Economic Issues in Measuring Market Power, Contributions to Economic Analysis North-Holland, 2002. 233-294. Print.
Journal Article
- Church, Jeffrey Robert, Gandal, N. and Krause, D.. "Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities". Review of Network Economics 7. (2008): 325-346. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert, Capps, O. Jr. and Love, H.A.. "Specification Issues and Confidence Intervals in Unilateral Price Effects Analysis". Journal of Econometrics 113. (2003): 3-31. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Gandel, Neil. "Systems Competition, Vertical Merger, and Foreclosure". Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 9. (2000): 25-52. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Ware, Roger. "Abuse of Dominance under the 1986 Canadian Competition Act". Review of Industrial Organization 13. (1998): 85-129. Print.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Gandal, Neil. "Network Effects, Software Provision and Standardization". Journal of Industrial Economics XL. (1992): 85-104. Print.
Uncategorized
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Wilkins, Andrew. Residential Wireline Telecommunications Services in Canada: Primary Exchange Services and Broadband 2014-34 1969.
- Church, Jeffrey Robert and Wilkins, Andrew. Residential Wireline Telecommunications Services in Canada: Primary Exchange Services and Broadband 2015 2015-07 1969.
- Boyce, John, Church, Jeffrey Robert and Vojtassak, Lucia. Capacity Constraints in Durable Goods Monopoly: Coase and Hotelling 2012-07 1969.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD - Economics
University of California at Berkeley, 1989 - BA (Hons) Faculty of Social Sciences Gold Medal - Economics
University of Calgary, 1984
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