About

James J. Anton is the Wesley A. Magat Professor in the Economics Area at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Economics at Duke and at UNC. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1984 and joined the Fuqua faculty in 1989 after serving on the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Anton's research interests are in applied microeconomic theory and industrial organization economics, with a focus on issues involving information, incentives, contracting, and property rights in markets characterized by strategic rivalry between firms. His work has addressed topics such as innovation incentives, intellectual property rights, competitive pricing and sourcing, procurement contracts, auctions, incentive regulations, and antitrust issues. He has published extensively in prominent economics journals and currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Industrial Economics. Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his teaching, receiving awards such as the Outstanding Professor Award from the Global Executive Classes and the Bank of America Faculty Award. He has also served as Faculty Dean for Fuqua from 2012 to 2015.

Research topics

• Economics
• Business
• Microeconomics
• Industrial organization
• Law and economics

Selected publications

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  The RAND Journal of Economics · 2021-03-01

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  Rest of World), 452 (Europe), 355 (UK

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• DYNAMIC PRICE COMPETITION WITH CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS AND A STRATEGIC BUYER

  UNC Libraries · 2021-08-14

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  We analyze a simple dynamic durable good oligopoly model where sellers are capacity constrained. Two incumbent sellers and potential entrants choose their capacities at the start of the game. We solve for equilibrium capacity choices and the (necessarily mixed) pricing strategies. In equilibrium, the buyer splits the order with positive probability to preserve competition

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  The RAND Journal of Economics · 2020-06-01

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  Identifying productivity when it is a factor of production

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  The RAND Journal of Economics · 2019-10-28

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  Rest of World), 430 (Europe), 338 (UK

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  The RAND Journal of Economics · 2018-11-12

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  Rest of World), 405 (Europe), 318 (UK

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• Adverse Selection

  Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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  The RAND Journal of Economics · 2018-08-24

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  remedy: optimal two-stage procurement with private R&D efficiency BIN LIU and JINGFENG LU

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• Adverse Selection

  Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2016-01-01

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• DYNAMIC PRICE COMPETITION WITH CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS AND A STRATEGIC BUYER

  International Economic Review · 2014-07-28 · 26 citations

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  We analyze a simple dynamic durable good model. Two incumbent sellers and potential entrants choose their capacities at the start of the game. We solve for equilibrium capacity choices and the (necessarily mixed) pricing strategies. In equilibrium, the buyer splits the order with positive probability to preserve competition, making it possible that a high and low price seller both have sales. Sellers command a rent above the value of unmet demand by the other seller. A buyer benefits from either a commitment not to make future purchases or by hiring an agent to always buy from the lowest priced seller.

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• adverse selection

  Palgrave Macmillan eBooks · 2013-10-07

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  The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management has been written by an international team of leading academics, practitioners and rising stars and contains almost 550 individually commissioned entri

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Frequent coauthors

• Dennis A. Yao

  Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

  37 shared

• Gary Biglaiser

  15 shared

• Nikolaos Vettas

  Athens University of Economics and Business

  10 shared

• Giuseppe Lopomo

  Duke University

  4 shared

• Sandro Brusco

  Stony Brook University

  4 shared

• Paul Gertler

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  3 shared

• James H. Vander Weide

  3 shared

• Tracy R. Lewis

  3 shared

Awards & honors

• Outstanding Professor Award from the Global Executive Classe…
• Bank of America Faculty Award (2007)