Research
Here is where downloadable copies of Philip Gayle's scholarly works may be accessed:
Refereed Publications
(31) “Post and Hold Regulation and Competitive Conduct: Evidence from the U.S. Beer Industry,” (with Adeel Faheem) Forthcoming in: International Journal of Industrial Organization.
(30) “Using Demand Transfer Ratios to Infer Market Impacts of New Goods,” (with Ying Lin), Economics Letters, Volume 223, February 2023.
(29) “The Organic Food Price Premium and its Susceptibility to News Media Coverage: Evidence from US Milk Industry,” (with Jin Wang and Shengnan Fang), Applied Economics, 2023, Vol. 55 (28), pp. 3296-3315.
(28) “Market Effects of New Product Introduction: Evidence from the Brew-at-home Coffee Market,” (with Ying Lin), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy , Vol. 31, Issue 3, Fall 2022, Pages 525 – 557 (Lead article in this issue of the journal).
(27) “Cost Pass-through in Commercial Aviation: Theory and Evidence,” (with Ying Lin), Economic Inquiry, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 803 – 828.
(26) “Firms’ Markup, Cost, and Price Changes when Policymakers Permit Collusion: Does Antitrust
Immunity Matter?” (with Xin Xie), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 157, January 2019, Pages 680-707.
(25) “Mergers and Product Quality: Evidence from the Airline Industry,” (with Yongmin Chen), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 62, January 2019, Pages 96-135.
(24) “Entry Deterrence and Strategic Alliances,” (with Xin Xie), Economic Inquiry, Volume 56, Issue
3, July 2018, Pages 1898-1924.
(23) “How much do Consumers really Value Air travel On-time Performance, and to what extent are Airlines Motivated to Improve their On-time Performance?” (with Jules Yimga), Economics of Transportation, Volume 14, June 2018, Pages 31-41.
(22) “Entry, Donor Market Size, and Competitive Conduct among Nonprofit Firms” (with Teresa D.
Harrison and Jeremy Thornton), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 50, January 2017, Pages 294–318.
(21) “Assessing Firm Behavior in Carve-out Markets: Evidence on the Impact of Carve-out Policy”
(with Tyson Thomas), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 128, Pages 178–194, August 2016.
(20) “Product Quality Effects of International Airline Alliances, Antitrust Immunity, and Domestic
Mergers” (with Tyson Thomas), Review of Network Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 45–74, December 2015.
(19) “On the Extent to which the Presence of Intermediate-stop(s) Air Travel Products Influences the Pricing of Nonstop Air Travel Products,” (with Chi-Yin Wu), Review of Network Economics, Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 355–395, June 2015.
(18) “Choosing between Order-of-Entry Assumptions in Empirical Entry Models: Evidence from Competition between Burger King and McDonald’s Restaurant Outlets,” (with Zijun Luo), Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 63, Issue 1, pages 129–151, March 2015.
(17) “Airline Strategic Alliances in Overlapping Markets: Should Policymakers be Concerned?”
(with Dave Brown), Economics of Transportation, Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 243–256, December 2014.
(16) “A Re-examination of Incumbents’ Response to the Threat of Entry: Evidence from the Airline Industry,” (with Chi-Yin Wu), Economics of Transportation, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 119-130, December 2013.
(15) “State Variation in Railroad Wheat Rates,” with Michael W. Babcock and Matthew McKamey, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 53, No. 3, Fall 2014.
(14) “Specifying and Estimating A Regional Agricultural Railroad Demand Model,” (with Michael W. Babcock), Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 53, No. 1, Spring 2014.
(13) “On the Efficiency of Codeshare Contracts Between Airlines: Is Double Marginalization Eliminated?”, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp. 244-273, November 2013.
(12) “State Variation in the Determinants of Motor Vehicle Fatalities,” (with Michael W. Babcock), Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 48, No. 3, Fall 2009.
(11) “Exports vs. FDI: Do Firms use FDI as a Mechanism to Smooth Demand Volatility?” (with Yang-Ming Chang), Review of World Economics, Vol. 145, No. 3, pp. 447-467, October 2009.
(10) “Has the Byrd Amendment affected U.S. Imports?” (with Thitima Puttitanun), The World Economy, Vol. 32, Issue 4, April 2009.
(9) "An Empirical Analysis of the Competitive Effects of the Delta/Continental/Northwest Codeshare Alliance," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 51, pp. 743-766, November 2008.
(8) “Airline Code-share Alliances and their Competitive Effects,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, pp. 781-819, November 2007.
(7) “Vertical Contracting Between Airlines: An Equilibrium Analysis of Codeshare Alliances," (with Yongmin Chen), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 25, pp. 1046-1060, October 2007.
(6) “Is Virtual Codesharing A Market Segmenting Mechanism Employed by Airlines?,” Economics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 17-24, April 2007.
(5) "Are Input Prices Irrelevant for Make-or-Buy Decisions?” (with Dennis Weisman), Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 195-207, October 2007.
(4) “Competition and Investment in Telecommunications,” (with Inung Jung), and Dale Lehman, Applied Economics, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 303-313, February 2008.
(3) “Efficiency Trade-Offs in the Design of Competition Policy for the Telecommunications Industry” (with Dennis Weisman), Review of Network Economics, Vol. 6, Issue 3, September 2007.
(2) “The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act: An Economic Analysis,” (with Yang-Ming Chang), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 73, No. 2, October 2006.
(1) “Estimating the Demand and Supply of Treasury Bills in Barbados: a co-integration approach,” (with Roland Craigwell), Money Affairs, Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies, Vol. X, No.1, January-June, 1997.
Working Papers & Research in Progress
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(2) “Measuring Merger Cost Effects: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Econometric Model,” (with Huubinh Le), Manuscript, Kansas State University, 2016. This paper won the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Best Paper in Antitrust Economics at the 11th annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), held in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17-19, 2013.
(3) “Airline Alliances and their Effects on Costs,” (with Huubinh Le), Manuscript, Kansas State University, 2014.