Yongmin Chen

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Education

Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, 1992
M.A., Industrial Economics, Renmin University of China, 1988
B.S., Engineering, Zhejiang Institute of Technology, China

Regional and Thematic Interests

Vertical contracting; dynamic pricing; consumer search; innovation and intellectual property; antitrust/competition policy; and organization of international trade

Profile

Yongmin Chen is a professor specializing in industrial organization. His research interests center around pricing, consumer search, vertical organization, intellectual property and innovation, law & economics, and antitrust. With over 60 journal articles, he has contributed to the economic analysis of a variety of topics, including dynamic price discrimination, product differentiation and price competition, product bundling, competitive effects of vertical merger, the legal and market determinants of innovation, and the operation of online markets with consumer search. He is an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics, and he served as a co-editor (2011-12) and managing editor (2013-19) of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Selected Publications

“Interpersonal Bundling” (with T. Zhang), Management Science, forthcoming.

“Refusal to Deal, Intellectual Property Rights, and Antitrust,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 30: 533-557, 2014.

“(When) Do Stronger Patents Increase Continual Innovation?” (with S. Pan and T. Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 98: 115-124, 2014.

“Profitability of Product Bundling” (with Michael Riordan), International Economic Review, 54: 35-57, 2013.

“Product Innovation Incentives: Monopoly vs. Competition” (with Marius Schwartz), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 22, 513-528, 2013.

“Ex ante Investment, Ex post Remedy, and Product Liability” (with X. Hua), International Economic Review, 53: 845-866, 2012.

“Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing” (with Ig Horstmann and James Markusen), Canadian Journal of Economics, 45: 1-15, 2012.

“Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Heterogeneous Searchers” (with Tianle Zhang), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29: 645–654, 2011.