DAVID REIFFEN

EDUCATION

Ph. D: Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1985).
Advisor: Professor David K. Levine
Fields: Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Information and Uncertainty.

M.A.: Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1981).

B.S.: Economics, State University of New York, Albany (1979).

EMPLOYMENT

Economist: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Washington, DC (2003-Present)

Economist: Office of Microeconomic Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC (2001-2003).
Economist: Division of Economic Policy Analysis, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC (1991-2001).
Adjunct Professor: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (Fall, 1993 - fall 1994).
Visiting Financial Economist: Office of Economic Analysis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC (1992).
Economist: Capital Economics, Washington, DC (1989-91).
Economist: Division of Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC (1987-89).
Senior Economist: National Economic Research Associates, Los Angeles, CA (1985-87).
Research Fellow: Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1982-83).
Lecturer: Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA (1982).
Research Assistant: Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1981-82, 1983-84).
Teaching Assistant: Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1980-82).

PUBLICATIONS

"Generic Drugs Industry Dynamics" (2005) Review of Economics and Statistics v. 87, (with M. Ward).
"How Retailers Select Products to Go on Sale: Evidence from Store-Level Data" (2004) Journal of Consumer Policy, v. 27, pp. 141-77 (with D. Hosken).
"Patterns of Retail Price Variation" (2004) Rand Journal of Economics v. 35, pp. 128-46 (with D. Hosken).
"Recent Empirical Evidence on Discrimination by Regulated Firms" (2002) Review of Network Economics, v. 1, pp. 38-52 (with M. Ward).
"Pricing Dynamics of Multiproduct Retailers" Advances in Applied Microeconomics: Advertising and Product Differentiation, v. 10 (2001), (with D. Hosken and D. Matsa).
"Multiproduct Retailers and the Sale Phenomenon" (2001) Agribusiness, v. 17, pp. 115-136 (with D. Hosken).
"Discriminatory Dealing with Downstream Competitors: Evidence From the Cellular Industry", Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 48 (2000), pp. 253-88, (with L. Schumann and M. Ward).
"On the Equivalence of Resale Price Maintenance and Quantity Restrictions" International Journal of Industrial Organization vol. 17, (1999), pp. 277-88.
"Re-evaluating the Regulated Firm's Incentive to Discriminate" Journal of Regulatory Economics, vol. 14 (1998), pp. 79-86
"Partial Integration and Foreclosure: An Empirical Analysis" Journal of Regulatory Economics, vol. 13 (1998), pp. 227-244
"Mergers with Captive Capacity: A Suggested Approach" Research in Law and Economics, vol. 17 (1995) (with D. Cameron).
"Vertical Contracts as Strategic Commitments", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 4 (1995), pp. 623-49 (with C. Alexander).
"Is There New Thinking on Vertical Integration?" Antitrust Law Journal, vol. 63 (1995), pp. 917-941 (with M. Vita).
"The Effect of Integration Between Broker/Dealers and Specialists" in The Industrial Organization and Regulation of the Securities Industry, (Andrew Lo editor), 1995 (with R. Neal) pp. 177-203.
"Equilibrium Vertical Foreclosure: Comment" American Economic Review vol. 82 (1992), pp. 694-7.
"Is There a Battle of the Presumed Market Perfections and Imperfections? A Comment on Tye" ATRS Reporter, April, 1991 (with K. Shugarman).
"Targeting Integration as Strategic Behavior: Reducing Rivals' Revenue" ATRS Reporter, April, 1991 (with D. Levy).
"Terminal Railroad Revisited; Foreclosure of an Essential Facility, or Simple Horizontal Monopoly" Journal of Law and Economics, October, 1990 (with A. Kleit). Reprinted in "Landmark Antitrust Decisions Revisited," The Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics (Blair and Esquibel, eds.), May, 1997.
"The Effect of the Bubble Act on the Market for Joint Stock Shares" Journal of Economic History, March, 1990 (with M. Patterson).
"Vertical Integration in a Spatial Setting: Implications of Successive Monopoly Distortion" Economics Letters 1989 (with D. Levy).
"On Nationalizing Private Property and the Present Value of Dictators", Public Choice, 1986 (with J. Lott).

WORKING PAPERS

"'Branded Generics' as a Strategy to Limit Cannibalization of Pharmaceutical Markets" (with Mike Ward). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=724401.
"Regret Without Detection: How Leniency Can Deter Corporate and Organizational Offenses" (with C. Alexander). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=641482.
"Targeted Consumer Information and Prices; The Private and Social Gains to Matching Consumers to Products", FTC Working Paper # 238, April, 2001. Revised and Resubmited, Journal of Industrial Economics
"Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers", FTC Working Paper # 225, March, 1999 (with D. Hosken). Revised and Resubmited, International Journal of Industrial Organization.

PRESENTATIONS

"Duplication of Public Goods: Some Evidence on the Potential Efficiencies from the Proposed Echostar/DirecTV Merger." Presented at US Federal Communications Commission (June, 2003).
"Group Size and the Incentive to Reveal Group-Specific Information: When is it Profitable to Differentiate One's Product." Presented at the University of Virginia (October, 2001).
"Multiproduct Retailers and the Sale Phenomenon." Presented at the 2000 Conference on The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the U.S. Food System, sponsored by the Food Marketing Institute and USDA.
"Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers" Presented at the University of Illinois (October, 1999).
"Discriminatory Dealing with Downstream Competitors: Evidence From the Cellular Industry." Presentation at the 1996 Telecommunications Policy and Research Committee (October, 1996), and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (April, 2000).
Presentation on Natural Monopoly and Privatization. Similar program presented for the Competition Agencies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (October, 1995)
"The Effect of Integration Between Broker/Dealers and Specialists" Presented at the 1994 NBER conference on the Industrial Organization and Regulation of the Securities Industry
"Vertical Contracts as Strategic Commitments". Presented at the University of Miami (1994).

HONORS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Federal Trade Commission Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 1995.
Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1984-85. One of 15 awarded in national competition.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 1982-83.
Sloan Foundation Economic Organization Fellowship, 1981-82, 1983-84.
Foundation for Research in Economics and Education Fellowship, 1979-80.
University of California, Los Angeles Trustees' Fellowship, 1979-80.
Member, American Economic Association
Referee for American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economica, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Management and Decision Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Public Choice, Review of Economic Studies, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

REFERENCES

Professor Greg Shaffer; Simon School of Business, University of Rochester.
Professor Jeremy Bulow; Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Pauline Ippolito; Associate Director for Special Projects, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission.
Professor David Levine; Armen Alchian Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.

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