Owen R. Phillips
Professor
Industrial Organization Antitrust Economics Experimental Techniques

Ph.D., Stanford University
B.A., Stanford University
owenphil@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-2195 • Ross Hall 124

Office Hours: MW 3:00 - 4:00

Teaching:
Industrial Organization Microeconomic Theory

Publications:

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Phillips, Owen R. and Dale Menkhaus, forthcoming. "Maintaining Tacit Collusion in Repeated Ascending Auctions." Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 52, forthcoming.

Menkhaus, Dale J., Phillips, Owen R. and Yakunina, Alla, V., "Inventories and Public Information in Private Negotiation: A Laboratory Market Study," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming

Menkhaus, Dale J., Owen R. Phillips, Chris T. Bastian, and Lance B. Gittings,  (2007) "The Matching Problem (and Inventories) in Private Negotiation." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89(4): 1073-1084.

Phillips, Owen R., Weatherford, Larry R., Mason, Charles F., and Kunce, Mitch (2005) "Passenger Leaks and the Fate of Small Community Air Service." Economic Inquiry, 43(4): 785-794

Aadland, David, Arthur Caplan and Owen R. Phillips (2007) "A Bayesian Examination of Information and Uncertainty in Contingent Valuation." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(2): 149-178.

Phillips, Owen R., Lawrence R. Weatherford, Charles F. Mason and Mitch Kunce (2005) "Passenger Leaks and the Fate of Small Community Air Service." Economic Inquiry 43 (4): 785-794.

Menkhaus, Dale J., Owen R. Phillips and Kalyn T. Coatney (2003) "Shared Agents and Competition in Laboratory English Auctions." American Journal of Agricultural Economics,  85(4): 829-839.

Menkhaus, Dale J., Owen R. Phillips and Chris T. Bastian (2003) "New Developments in Experiments for Agricultural Economics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics,  85(5): 1323-1329.

Phillips, Owen R., Dale J. Menkhaus and Kalyn T. Coatney (2003) "Collusive Practices in Repeated English Auctions: Experiment Evidence on Bidding Rings." American Economic Review, 93(3): 965-979. 

Yakunina, Alla V., Dale J. Menkhaus, Owen R. Phillips and Victor E. Esipov (2003)  "Non-Performance Risk and Transaction Costs in Laboratory Forward and Spot Markets." Journal of Comparative Economics, 31(2): 257-274.

Menkhaus, Dale J., Owen R. Phillips, F.M. Allison Johnston and Alla V. Yakunina (2003) "Price Discovery In Private Negotiation Trading for Forward and Spot Deliveries." Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(1): 89-107.

Mason, Charles F. and Owen R. Phillips (2002) "In Support of  Trigger Strategies: Experimental Evidence from Two-Person Non-cooperative Games." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 11(4): 685-716.

Phillips, Owen R. and Lori J. Phillips (2002) "The Market for Academic Journals." Applied Economics, 34(1): 39-48.

Menkhaus, Dale J., Alla V. Yakunina and Owen R. Phillips "Public Information in Negotiated Commodity Trading: A Laboratory Market Study", American Journaln of Agriculture Economics, forthcoming. 

WORKING PAPERS

Phillips, Owen R. and Menkhaus, Dale J., Inventories, Cournot Outcomes, and the Decline Effect in Repeated Multiple-Unit Auctions. October 2008

Phillips, Owen R., Pillutla, Madan, M., and Erdal, Kara, Do People Do What They Say: Exploring Consistency between Words and Offers in Ultimatum Games. February 2008.

van 't Veld, Klaas T. and Phillips, Owen R., Pegging Input Prices to Output Prices in Long-Term Contracts: CO2 Purchase Agreements in Enhanced Oil Recovery

Menkhaus, Dale J. and Phillips, Owen R., The Reinforcing Impact of Limited Matches and Advance Production in Private Negotiation. October 2008

Phillips, Owen R. and Menkhaus, Dale J., The Culture of Private Negotiations: Price Anchors in Simple Bilateral Bargaining Experiments. November 2007

Phillips, Owen R., Menkhaus, Dale J., Nagler, Amy M., and Bastian, Chris T., "Experimental Work on Subsidies, Moral Hazard, and Market Power in Agricultural Markets." February 2008

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Press releases:

• 1/20/2006 - UW Trustees Approve Personnel Items
• 1/27/2004 - Air Service Study Reveals Extent of Leakage to Out-of-State HUBS
• 11/6/2003 - Wyoming's Passenger Air Service Topic of Discussion
• 4/24/2003 - UW Faculty Receive PacifiCorp Research Awards
• 10/9/2002 - Nobel Prize Winner Influenced UW Economics Department
• 5/17/2000 - Business Faculty Honored
• 3/25/1997 - UW Economists Study Marketing Behavior

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