German Coloma - Publications

Books

· Defensa de la competencia: análisis económico comparado [Antitrust: Comparative Economic Analysis], 2nd edition, 571 pgs. Buenos Aires, Ciudad Argentina, 2009.

· Progresos en organización industrial [Advances in Industrial Organization], 180 pgs. Buenos Aires, Temas, 2006.

· Economía de la organización industrial [Industrial Organization Economics], 390 pgs. Buenos Aires, Temas, 2005.

· Análisis económico del derecho privado y regulatorio [Economic Analysis of Private and Regulatory Law], 306 pgs. Buenos Aires, Ciudad Argentina, 2001.

Papers in refereed journals

• “Bertrand Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti); B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, vol 10, art 27, 2010.
• “Estimation of Demand Systems Based on Elasticities of Substitution”; Review of Applied Economics, vol 5, pp 31-48, 2009.
• “Equilibrios competitivos y de Bertrand, con y sin diferenciación de productos” [Competitive and Bertrand Equilibria, with and without Product Differentiation]; Revista de Análisis Económico, vol 24, pp 43-53, 2009 (with summary in English).
• “Damages for Breach of Contract, Impossibility of Performance and Legal Enforceability”; Review of Law and Economics, vol 4, pp 65-80, 2008.
• “Penalty Kicks in Soccer: An Alternative Methodology for Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria”; Journal of Sports Economics, vol 8, pp 530-545, 2007.
• “The Effect of the Telefonica-BellSouth Merger on the Argentine Cellular Telephone Market”; Telecommunications Policy, vol 31, pp 541-557, 2007.
• “The Arcor/Bagley Merger and the Argentine Biscuit Market: Price Increases vs. Cost Reductions”; Icfai Journal of Mergers and Acquisitions, vol 4, no 2, pp 15-28, 2007.
• “Mergers and Acquisitions in Mixed-Oligopoly Markets”; International Journal of Business and Economics, vol 5, pp 147-159, 2006.
• “Econometric Estimation of PCAIDS Models”; Empirical Economics, vol 31, pp 587-599, 2006.
• “Fusiones horizontales que reducen los precios” [Price-Reducing Horizontal Mergers]; El Trimestre Económico, vol 72, pp 31-53, 2005 (with summary in English).
• “Price Discrimination and Price Dispersion in the Argentine Gasoline Market”; International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol 10, nro 2, pp 169-178, 2003.
• “The Effect of the Repsol-YPF Merger on the Argentine Gasoline Market”; Review of Industrial Organization, vol 21, nro 4, pp 399-418, 2002.
• “Un modelo integrado de depredación y colusión” [An Integrated Model of Predation and Collusion]; Cuadernos de Economía, vol 39, nro 116, pp 123-133, 2002 (with summary in English).
• “Las funciones económicas del derecho” [The Economic Functions of Law]; Problemas del Desarrollo, vol 32, nro 126, pp 125-147, 2001 (with summary in English).
• “An Economic Analysis of Horizontal Property”; International Review of Law and Economics, vol 21, pp 343-354, 2001.
• “Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution as the Outcome of a Dynamic Game”; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol 23, pp 1177-1196, 1999.
• “Socialismo de mercado, marginalismo y empresa pública: síntesis y puntos de contacto” [Market Socialism, Marginal Cost Pricing and Public Enterprise: Synthesis and Connections]; Desarrollo Económico, vol 39, Nro 153, pp 31-44, 1999 (with summary in English).
• “Product Differentiation and Market Power in the California Gasoline Market”; Journal of Applied Economics, vol 2, Nro 1, pp 1-27, 1999.
• “Diferenciación de productos y poder de mercado” [Product Differentiation and Market Power]; Económica (La Plata), vol 44, Nro 1-2, pp 3-27, 1998 (with summary in English).
• “Productividad global de los factores: teoría y aplicación al caso de una empresa pública argentina” [Global Factor Productivity: Theory and Application to the Case of an Argentine Public Enterprise]; Económica (La Plata), vol 36, Nro 1-2, pp 21-55, 1990 (with summary in English).

Other academic publications (in English)

• “The Optimum Number of Firms under Bertrand Competition”, 12 pgs; Annals of the IX Latin American Meeting of Economic Theory. San Luis (Argentina), IMASL, 2008.
• “Bertrand’s Price Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti), 23 pgs; Working Paper No 541, Rochester Center for Economic Research, 2008.
• “Bertrand and Price-Taking Equilibria in Markets with Product Differentiation”, 9 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 369, 2008.
• “Damages for Breach of Contract, Impossibility of Performance and Legal Enforceability”, 13 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 357, 2007.

· “The Argentine Competiton Law and its Enforcement”; 30 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 342, 2007.

· “Bertrand Equilibria in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti), 15 pgs; Economics Discussion Paper 0627, University of Manchester, 2006.

• “Estimation of Demand Systems Based on Elasticities of Substitution”, 22 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 322, 2006.
• “Econometric Estimation of PCAIDS Models”, 11 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 276, 2004.
• “A Note on the Equivalence between Contractual and Tort Liability Rules” (joint with Sergio Pernice), 18 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 179, 2000.
• “Competition, Bargaining and Income Distribution in Argentina and the United States”, 25 pgs; CEMA University Working Paper No 148, 1999.

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