John L. Turner



Assistant Professor

(Associate Professor starting August 2008)

Department of Economics

Terry College of Business

University of Georgia

(Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia, 2002)


Curriculum Vitae (May 2, 2008)

UGA Economics Department



Research Interests:

Industrial organization, intellectual property, law and economics, mechanism design, time series analysis.


Recent Presentations:

Symposium on "Patent Failure" by Jim Bessen and Mike Meurer , University of Georgia Law School, March 29, 2008 (co-convener with Paul Heald ).

Managerial Economics and Strategy Group, London School of Economics, London, UK, March 2008.

Econometric Society, North American Winter Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 2008.

Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2007.


External Grants:

"A Comprehensive Data Set of Published US Patent Litigation Decisions: 1929-2006," National Science Foundation 0751661, 2008-2010, $150,000.


Refereed Publications:

"Local to Unity, Long-Horizon Forecasting Thresholds for Model Selection in the AR(1)," Journal of Forecasting 23, November 2004, pp. 513-539.

"How (Not) to Raise Money" (with Jacob Goeree , Emiel Maasland and Sander Onderstal ), Journal of Political Economy 113, August 2005, pp. 897-918.

"The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's Impact on Patent Litigation" (with Matthew Henry ), Journal of Legal Studies 35, January 2006, pp. 85-117.

"James Watt as Intellectual Monopolist: Comment on Boldrin and Levine" (with George Selgin ), International Economic Review 47, November 2006, pp. 1341-48.

"Efficient Dissolution of Partnerships and the Structure of Control" (with Emanuel Ornelas ), Games and Economic Behavior 60, July 2007, pp. 187-99.

"Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing and the Hold-Up Problem" (with Emanuel Ornelas ), Journal of International Economics 74, January 2008, pp. 225-41.

(Note: If you cannot retrieve copies of the published papers because of subscription issues, please send me an e-mail with your name, address, and the paper you would like me to send. I will send you an old-school reprint by surface mail. There are also some working paper versions on my SSRN page and my RePEc page. )


Papers Under Review:

"The Economics of a Centralized Judiciary: Uniformity, Forum Shopping and the Federal Circuit" (with Scott Atkinson and Alan Marco ), under 2nd review, Journal of Law and Economics.

"Patent Damages and Spatial Competition" (with Matthew Henry ), revision requested, Journal of Industrial Economics.

"Unbundling Ownership and Control" (with Daniel Ferreira and Emanuel Ornelas ) - formerly "Ownership Structure and the Market for Corporate Control".

"Dissolving (In)effective Partnerships" .


Other Completed Working Papers:

"In Defense of the Patent Friendly Court Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence," 2005.

"All-Pay-All Auctions" (with Jacob Goeree), 2002.

"Bayh-Dole to Festo: The New Economics of Patent Law," 2002.


Work in Progress:

"Calcutta Auctions" (with Jacob Goeree).

"Horizontal Mergers with Switching Costs Under Spatial Competition" (with Matthew Weinberg).

"Optimal Trade Policy and the Hold-Up Problem" (with Emanuel Ornelas).


Classes Taught:

Econ 2106H - Principles of Microeconomics (Honors).

Econ 4010 - Intermediate Microeconomics.

Econ 4650 / 6650 - The Economics of Organization and Management.

Econ 8210 / 8220 - Graduate Industrial Organization (Ph.D).


Contact:

Brooks Hall, Fifth Floor
Athens, GA 30602-6254
Phone: 706-542-3682
Fax: 706-542-3376
Electronic Mail: jlturner at uga.edu


Personal:

I grew up in Atlanta, GA and graduated from Westminster in 1991. I then attended Washington and Lee University and graduated in 1995. After college, I worked for two years for the National Enviromental Policy Institute (now defunct) in Washington, DC. I started graduate school in economics at the University of Virginia in 1997.



"Regarded in its essence, therefore, or according to the definition of its nature, virtue is a moderation or middle state,
but viewed in its relation to what is best and right it is the extreme of perfection. . . ."

-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 350 BC






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