Robert S. Pindyck

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Some Recent (and Not-So Recent) Papers

Microeconomics, Regulation, and Antitrust

Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry, NBER Working Paper, February 2009.

Governance, Issuance Restrictions, And Competition In Payment Card Networks, NBER Working Paper, June 2007, and Chap. 19 of The Antitrust Revolution, 5th Ed., Kwoka and White, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 .

Sunk Costs and Real Options in Antitrust Analysis , in Issues in Competition Law and Policy , W. D. Collins, ed., ABA Press, 2008.

Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks, Review of Network Economics, November, 2007.

Pricing Capital under Mandatory Unbundling and Facilities Sharing , NBER Working Paper No. 11225, March 2005

Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs, (with E.R. Berndt and P. Azoulay), Journal of Industrial Economics, June 2003.

Environmental Economics and Public Policy

The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes, (with Neng Wang), NBER Working Paper, September 2009. .

Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy , NBER Working paper, August 2009.

Uncertainty in Environmental Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Winter 2007.

Optimal Timing Problems in Environmental Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2002.

Irreversibilities and the Timing of Environmental Policy, Resource and Energy Economics, July 2000.

Energy and Commodity Markets

Volatility in Natural Gas and Oil Markets, Journal of Energy and Development, November 2004.

Volatility and Commodity Price Dynamics, The Journal of Futures Markets, November 2004.
The Dynamics of Commodity Spot and Futures Markets: A Primer, The Energy Journal, August 2001.

The Long-Run Evolution of Energy Prices, The Energy Journal, April 1999.

Investment Under Uncertainty

A Markup Interpretation of Optimal Investment Rules, (with A. Dixit and S. Sødal ), The Economic Journal, April 1999.

Expandability, Reversibility, and Optimal Capacity Choice, (with A.K. Dixit), in Project Flexibility, Agency, and Competition, M.J. Brennan and L. Trigeorgis (Eds.), Oxford University Press, 1999.

Uncertainty, Investment, and Industry Evolution, (with R. Caballero), International Economic Review, August 1996.

Options, The Value of Capital, and Investment, (with A. Abel, A. Dixit and J. Eberly ), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1996.

The Options Approach to Capital Investment, (with A.K. Dixit), Harvard Business Review, May/June 1995.

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