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John McMillan

ARTICLES

Selected Articles

  1. ”Death and Development” (with Peter Lorentzen and Romain Wacziarg)
  2. “Trench Town Rock: The Creation of Jamaica’s Music Industry”
  3. "Market Institutions," for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edn, ed. L. Blume and S. Durlauf, London: Palgrave Macmillan, to appear
  4. "Rugby: Strategy and Structure," for The Elgar Companion to the Economics of Sports, ed. W. Andreff and S. Szymanski, London, Edward Elgar, to appear
  5. "Promoting Transparency in Angola," Journal of Democracy 16 (3), July 2005
  6. "Quantifying Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand," New Zealand Economic Papers, 38 (2), December 2004
  7. "How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru," Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (4), Fall 2004, 69-92 (with Pablo Zoido) [Text of TV-channel contract]
  8. "Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers," Finance and Development, 41, Sept. 2004, 34-37
  9. "A Trust Fund for Ituri," December 2003 (with Thomas Heller and Stephen Krasner)
  10. "Selling Online versus Live", November 2003 (with Eiichiro Kazumori)
  11. "Market Design: The Policy Uses of Theory," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2003
  12. "Property Rights and Finance," American Economic Review 92, Dec. 2002, 1335-56 (with Simon Johnson and Christopher Woodruff)
  13. "The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, Summer 2002, 153-70 (with Christopher Woodruff)
  14. "Courts and Relational Contracts," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 18, Spring 2002, 221-277 (with Simon Johnson and Christopher Woodruff)
  15. "Economics Online," Journal of Economic Literature, 39, March 2001, 7-10 (with Drucilla Ekwurzel)
  16. "Private Order under Dysfunctional Public Order, Michigan Law Review 98, Aug. 2000, 101-138 (with Christopher Woodruff)
  17. "Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism," Journal of Public Economics 76, June 2000, 495-520 (with Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, and Christopher Woodruff)
  18. "Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114, Nov. 1999, 1285-1320 (with Christopher Woodruff)
  19. "Dispute Prevention Without Courts in Vietnam," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15, Oct. 1999, 637-658 (with Christopher Woodruff)
  20. "Auctions of Rights to Public Property," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Vol.1, ed. Peter Newman, London: Macmillan and New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1998, pp.125-129 (with Valeen Afualo)
  21. "Managing Economic Change: Lessons from New Zealand," World Economy 21, Aug. 1998, 827-843
  22. "Synergies in Wireless Telephony: Evidence from the Broadband PCS Auctions," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 6, Fall 1997, 497-527 (with Lawrence M. Ausubel, Peter Cramton, and R. Preston McAfee)
  23. "Rugby Meets Economics," New Zealand Economic Papers 31, June 1997, 93-114
  24. "Markets in Transition," Ch.6 of Advances in Economics and Econometrics Vol.2, ed. David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.210-239 [Econometric Society World Congress symposium address]
  25. "What Can North Korea Learn from China's Market Reforms?" Ch.5 of The System Transformation of the Transition Economies, ed. Doowon Lee, Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1997, pp.153-179
  26. "Analyzing the Airwaves Auction," Journal of Economic Perspectives 10, Winter 1996, 159-176 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  27. "Competition and Game Theory," Journal of Marketing Research 33, Aug. 1996, 263-267 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  28. "Why Does Japan Resist Foreign Market-Opening Pressure?" Ch. 14 of Fair Trade and Harmonization Vol. 1, ed. Jagdish Bhagwati and Robert Hudec, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996, pp.515-541
  29. "Organizational Diseconomies of Scale" Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 4, Fall 1995, 399-426 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  30. "China's Evolving Managerial Labor Market," Journal of Political Economy 103, Aug. 1995, 873-892 (with Theodore Groves, Yongmiao Hong, and Barry Naughton)
  31. "China's Nonconformist Reforms," Ch.13 of Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia: Realities of Reform, ed. Edward P. Lazear, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1995, pp.419-433
  32. "Why Auction the Spectrum?" Telecommunications Policy 19, April 1995, 191-199
  33. "Reorganizing Vertical Supply Relationships," in Trends in Business Organization: Do Participation and Cooperation Increase Competitiveness? ed. Horst Siebert, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1995, pp.203-222
  34. "Selling Spectrum Rights," Journal of Economic Perspectives 8, Summer 1994, 145-162
  35. "Vietnam's Grassroots Reforms," International Economic Insights 5, March 1994, 33-35
  36. "Autonomy and Incentives in Chinese State Enterprises," Quarterly Journal of Economics 109, Feb. 1994, 183-209 (with Theodore Groves, Yongmiao Hong, and Barry Naughton)
  37. "Trade Accords and Trade Wars," Ch. 9 of Trade, Welfare, and Economic Policies: Essays In Honor of Murray C. Kemp, ed. Horst Herberg and Ngo Van Long, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp.167-176
  38. "Does Regional Integration Foster Open Trade? Economic Theory and GATT's Article XXIV," Ch. 13 of Regional Integration and the Global Trading System, ed. Kym Anderson and Richard Blackhurst, London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1993, pp.292-310
  39. "Bidding Rings," American Economic Review 82, June 1992, 579-599 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  40. "How to Reform a Planned Economy: Lessons from China," Oxford Review of Economic Policy 8, Spring 1992, 130-143 (with Barry Naughton)
  41. "Dango: Japan's Price-Fixing Conspiracies," Economics and Politics 3, Nov. 1991, 201-218
  42. "Optimal Contracts for Teams," International Economic Review 32, August 1991, 561-578 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  43. "Bidding for Olympic Broadcast Rights: The Competition before the Competition," Negotiation Journal 7, July 1991, 255-263
  44. "Extracting the Surplus in the Common-Value Auction," Econometrica 57, Nov. 1989, 1451-1459 (with R. Preston McAfee and Philip J. Reny)
  45. "The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on Agricultural Productivity Growth," Journal of Political Economy 97, Aug. 1989, 781-807 (with John Whalley and Lijing Zhu)
  46. "Government Procurement and International Trade," Journal of International Economics, 26, 1989, 291-308 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  47. "Multiproduct Monopoly, Commodity Bundling, and Correlation of Values," Quarterly Journal of Economics 104, May 1989, 371-383 (with R. Preston McAfee and Michael D. Whinston)
  48. "Multidimensional Incentive Compatibility and Mechanism Design," Journal of Economic Theory, 46, December 1988, 335-54 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  49. "Search Mechanisms," Journal of Economic Theory, 44, February 1988, 99-123 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  50. "Auctions with a Stochastic Number of Bidders," Journal of Economic Theory, 43, October 1987, 1-19 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  51. "Auctions with Entry," Economics Letters, 23, 1987, 343-7 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  52. "Competition for Agency Contracts," Rand Journal of Economics 18, Summer 1987, 296-307 (with R. Preston AcAfee)
  53. "Auctions and Bidding," Journal of Economic Literature, 25, June 1987, 699-738 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  54. "The Design of Contracts: Evidence from Japanese Subcontracting," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1, 1987, 327-349 (with Seiichi Kawasaki) 
  55. "Bidding for Contracts: A Principal-Agent Analysis," Rand Journal of Economics 17, Autumn 1986, 326-338 (with R. Preston McAfee)
  56. "Paying for Public Inputs," American Economic Review 75, March 1985, 235-238 (with Richard Manning and James R. Markusen)
  57. "Inventories and Price Inflexibility," Econometrica 51, May 1983, 599-610 (with Seiichi Kawasaki and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
  58. "Disequilibrium Dynamics: An Empirical Study," American Economic Review 72, Dec. 1982, 992-1004 (with Seiichi Kawasaki and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
  59. "Welfare Effects in Customs Unions," Economic Journal 91, Sept. 1981, 697-703 (with Ewen McCann)