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Dr. Donald Alexander
Ph.D, Penn. State University, 1983
Professor
5416, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5526
Email: Donald.Alexander@wmich.edu
Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~alexande
Areas of Interest:
Industrial Organization; Antitrust Economics; and Regulation Economics
Current Research: Economics of Sports; The Telecommunication Industry
Special Honors: Philip M. McKenna Fellowship for the Study of Market Economics, 1986 and 1988
Selected Publications:

“Drive for Show and Putt for Dough? An Analysis of the Earnings of PGA Tour Golfers,” (with William Kern), Journal of Sports Economics, (February 2005): 46-60.

“Entry in Local Telecommunications Markets,” (with Robert Feinberg), Review of Industrial Organization, 25 6 (September 2004): 107-127.

“The Economic Determinants of Professional Sports Franchise Values,” (with William Kern), Journal of Sports Economics, 5 (February 2004): 51-66.

“Technical Progress and Real Wage Stagnation: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry,” (with Jon Neill), Economics of Innovation & New Technology, 13 (January 2004): 61-75.

“Major League Baseball: Monopoly Pricing and Profit-Maximizing Behavior,” Journal of Sports Economics, (November 2001).

“Valuing the Consumption Benefits from Professional Sports Franchises and Facilities,” (with William Kern & Jon Neill), Journal of Urban Economics, (2000).

“Market Power, Efficiency and the Dispersion of Systematic Risk,” (with Paul Thistle), Review of Industrial Organization, (June 1999).

Telecommunications Policy: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number, edited by Donald L. Alexander, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.

Networks, Infrastructure, and the New Task for Regulation, edited by Werner Sichel & Donald L. Alexander. The University of Michigan Press, 1996.

"R & D Productivity and Global Market Share in the Pharmaceutical Industry," in Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry, edited by Robert B. Helms. American Enterprise Institute, 1996.

"Product-Market Competition and Executive Compensation," (with Huizhong Zhou), Journal of Economics and Business, December 1995.

"Innovation, R & D Productivity, and Global Market Share in the Pharmaceutical Industry," (with Joseph Flynn and Linda Linkins), Review of Industrial Organization, 10 (April 1995).

"Estimates of the Demand for Ethical Pharmaceutical Drugs Across Countries and Time," (with Joseph Flynn and Linda Linkins), Applied Economics, 26 (August 1994).

"Motor Carrier Deregulation and Highway Safety: An Empirical Analysis," Southern Economic Journal, 59 (July 1992).

"An Empirical Investigation of Lawn Mower Safety Regulation," Applied Economics, 22 (June 1990).

"The Oligopoly Solution Tested," Economics Letters, 29 (1988).

"An Empirical Test of Monopoly Behavior: An Application to the Hardwood Case," Applied Economics, 20 (August 1988).

"Diversification and Market Performance," Review of Industrial Organization, 3 (1987).

"An Empirical Test of the Mutual Forbearance Hypothesis: The Case of Bank Holding Companies," Southern Economic Journal, 52 (July 1985).

 

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