Academic Papers and Publications
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"Coordination, Compensation and the Expansion of Trade: The Merchant Guilds Revisited" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, 8 October 2011. Comments very welcome.
"The BAT/Protabaco Merger: Unilateral Effects, Tacit Collusion and Multimarket Oligopoly" by David Harbord and Alvaro Riascos, European Competition Law Review, Issue 11, 2011. A Spanish version of this article appeared on the Foco Economico website on 7 June 2011 here.
"Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger" by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig. Revised version, 04 August 2011.
Slide presentation on "Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)" by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig, for the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference, Istanbul, 3 September 2010.
"Network-Based Price Discrimination and Bill and Keep vs. Cost-Based Regulation of Mobile Termination Rates" by David Harbord and Marco Pagnozzi, Review of Network Economics, Vol. 9 (1), March 2010.
"Enforcing Cooperation Among Medieval Merchants: The Maghribi Traders Revisited" by David Harbord, SSRN Working Paper Series: Economic History Research Network, 8 November 2006. Invited for resubmission to the Journal of Economic History.
Slide presentation on "Enforcing Cooperation Among Medieval Merchants: The Maghribi Traders Revisited" for Extra-legal Governance and Organized Crime Discussion Group Seminar, Oxford, 18 November 2006.
"Designing Electricity Auctions" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 23-46, 2006. (Slide presentation).
"Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates: Countervailing Buyer Power as a Constraint on Monopoly Power" by Ken Binmore and David Harbord. Published in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Vol. 1 (3), 449-472, 2005.
"Modelling Electricity Auctions" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, Electricity Journal, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 72-81, September 2002. (Slide presentation).
"Designing Electricity Auctions: Uniform, Discriminatory and Vickrey" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord. Paper presented to the IDEI's Conference on "Wholesale Markets for Electricity," University of Toulouse, 22-23 November 2002.
"Contracts and Competition in the Pay-TV Market" by David Harbord and Marco Ottaviani, Economics Discussion Paper No. 45, Regulation Initiative Working Paper Series, London Business School, June 2001.
"State Aids, Restructuring and Privatisation" by David Harbord and George Yarrow, in European Economy, No 3, State Aid and the Single Market, Chapter 5, pp. 89-131, 1999.
"Competition in Electricity Spot Markets: Economic Theory and International Experience" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, University of Oslo Memorandum in Economics No 5/1998.
"Capacity Investment and Competition in Decentralised Electricity Markets" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, University of Oslo Memorandum in Economics No 27/1997.
"Capacity Investment and Long-Run Efficiency in Market-Based Electricity Industries" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, in Competition in the Electricity Supply Industry: Experience from Europe and the United States, O.J. Olsen (ed.), 1995.
"Barriers to Entry and Exit in European Competition Policy" by David Harbord and Tom Hoehn, International Review of Law and Economics, Volume 14, pp. 411-435, 1994.
"Spot Market Competition and Long-Term Contracts in the England and Wales' Electricity Market" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, 1994. Revised version of University of Oslo Economics Memorandum No. 14/1992, "Long-Term Contracts and Imperfectly Competitive Spot Markets: A Study of the UK Electricity Industry."
"Spot Market Competition in the UK Electricity Industry" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, Economic Journal, Volume 103, pp. 531-546, 1993. Reprinted in Paul L. Joskow and Michael Waterson (eds) Empirical Industrial Organization, Edward Elgar, 2004; and in Ray Rees (ed) The Economics of Public Utilities, Edward Elgar, 2006.