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Stephen Hamilton

Stephen Hamilton

Associate Professor of Economics

Email: shamilto@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-2555
Fax: (805) 756-1473
Website: http://buiznt.cob.calpoly.edu/cob/Econ/hamilton/

Office: 03-432

Education

  • Ph.D: University of California at Berkeley, 1996.
  • MS: University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
  • BA: Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Major in Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1991.

Fields of Interest

  • Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Public Economics

Awards and Honors

  • Invited Speaker, Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry, INRA-IDEI, Toulouse, France, 2004.
  • Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003-
  • Keynote Speaker, International Dimension of Environmental Policy, Dutch Science Foundation/EURESCO, Kerkrade, Holland, 2000.
  • Early Career Award for Outstanding Research, Gamma Sigma Delta, 1999.
  • Faculty of the Semester Award for Undergraduate Instruction

Selected Publications

  • “Variety Competition in Retail Markets,” (with Tim Richards), Management Science, 55(8), August 2009, pp. 1368-76.
  • “Excise Taxes with Multi-Product Transactions,” American Economic Review, 99(1), March 2009, pp. 458-71.
  • “Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control,” (with Rob Innes), RAND Journal of Economics, 40(1), Spring 2009, pp. 120-43.
  • “Informative Advertising in Concentrated, Differentiated Markets,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27(1), January 2009, pp. 60-69.
  • “Environmental Regulations, Illicit Behavior, and Equilibrium Fraud” (with David Zilberman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52(3), November 2006, pp. 627-44.
  • “Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety,” (with David Sunding, and David Zilberman), Journal of Public Economics 87(3-4), March 2003, pp. 799-817.
  • “An Empirical Test of the Rent-Shifting Hypothesis: The Case of State Trading Enterprises,” (with Kyle Stiegert), Journal of International Economics 58(1), October 2002, pp. 135-57.
  • “Vertical Coordination, Antritrust Law, and International Trade,” (with Kyle Stiegert), Journal of Law & Economics 43(1), April 2000, pp. 143-56.