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Robert Feinberg

Professor of Economics

Roper 210
Tel: (202) 885-3788
Fax: (202) 885-3790
feinber@american.edu

Research Interests

Recent work has analyzed determinants and effects of market entry, patterns and determinants of US and global antidumping actions, competitive interactions between banks and credit unions in local consumer lending markets, Australian antitrust policy, and development of markets in Central and Eastern Europe.

Teaching Interests

Industrial Economics, Economics of Antitrust and Regulation, Microeconomics.

Professional Activities

Professor Feinberg received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He taught for ten years on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, has served as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the International Trade Commission, and has been at American University since 1989, serving as Economics Department Chair from 1996 to 2000. He has been a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick (Ireland), a Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation, and a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is a past President of the Industrial Organization Society.

Recent Publications

  • “Tariff Liberalization and Increased Administrative Protection: Is There a Quid Pro Quo” (with K. Reynolds), The World Economy, forthcoming 2007.
  • “Market Reform and Infrastructure Development in Transition Economies” (with M. Meurs), Review of Development Economics, forthcoming 2007.
  • "Are Credit Unions Just Small Banks? Determinants of Loan Rates in Local Consumer Lending Markets"(with A. Rahman), Eastern Economic Journal, December 2006.
  • “The Spread of Antidumping Regimes and the Role of Retaliation in Filings” (with K. Reynolds), Southern Economic Journal, April 2006.
  • “Market Power and the Incentives to Form Research Consortia” (with E. Catilina), Review of Industrial Organization, March 2006.
  • "U.S. Antidumping Enforcement and Macroeconomic Indicators Revisited: Do Petitioners Learn?" Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2005.
  • “Exchange Rate Effects on Domestic Prices in Bulgaria and Poland: Progress in Making Markets?” (with M. Meurs), International Journal of the Economics of Business, July 2005.
  • “Market Reform, Infrastructure and Exchange Rate Passthrough in Central and Eastern Europe” (with M. Meurs), Post-Communist Economics, March 2005.
  • “The Measurement and Effects of Barriers to Trade in Basic Telecommunication Services” (with R. Brown), World Trade Review, July 2004.
  • “Entry in Local Telecommunications Markets” (with D. Alexander), Review of Industrial Organization, September 2004.
  • "The Funding of Economics Research: Does Social Capital Matter for Success at the National Science Foundation?" (with G. Price), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2004.
  • "The Determinants of Bank Rates in Local Consumer Lending Markets: Comparing Market and Institution-Level Results,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, July 2003, pp. 144-156.
  • "Collusion with Secret Price Cuts: An Experimental Investigation" (with Christopher Snyder), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3 no. 6, 2002, pp. 1-11.
  • "Credit Unions: Fringe Suppliers or Cournot Competitors?" Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 20, March 2002, pp. 105-113.
  • "The Competitive Role of Credit Unions in Local Financial Services Markets" Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, August 2001, pp. 560-563.
  • "An Examination of Stock-Price Effects of EU Merger Control Policy" (with U. Brady), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 18, August 2000, pp. 885-900.
  • "The Role of International Discipline in Three Developing Economies: Exchange Rate Effects on Domestic Prices in Colombia, Korea, and Morocco," Review of International Economics, Vol. 8, February 2000, pp. 126-133.

 

   

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