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University of Colorado Denver Business School, offering Bachelor, MBA, MS, and PhD degrees

Business School, University of Colorado Denver
 

Woodrow Eckard

Professor of Economics


Woodrow Eckhard

Applied Economics for Managers BUSN6620

Quantitative Methods for Finance FNCE6290

  • Industrial Organization
  • Economic History
  • Antitrust Regulation
  • Sports Economics
  • Financial Economics

Education

PhD, Industrial Organization Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 1977        

MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 1974

BCE, Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1967

 

Professional Experience

Professor and Associate Professor of Economics, UC Denver Business School, 1984-present

Manager of Regulatory Economics and Senior Staff Economist, General Motors Corporation, 1978-84

Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1967-72

 

Honors

Mehalchin Term Professorship,  2004-07

Dean’s Scholar Award, 2001                           

Outstanding Service Award, 2001

Professor of the Year, 11-Month MBA Program, 1999

Dean’s Scholar Award, 1996

Total Petroleum Fellow, 1990

Outstanding Faculty Member, 1989

Dean’s Scholar Award, 1988

“Is the Bowl Championship Series a Cartel? Some Evidence” Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 14, no. 1 (February): 3-22. 2013

“The Impact of Price Discrimination on Consumer Surplus at Pop Music Concerts” Economic Letters, vol. 118, no. 1 (January): 222-224. 2013

“The Revenue Gains from Multi-Tier Ticket Pricing: Evidence from Pop Music Concerts” Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 33, no. 7-8 (Oct.-Dec.): 463-473. 2012

“Anti-Irish Job Discrimination Circa 1880: Evidence from Major League Baseball” Social Science History, vol. 34, no. 4 (Winter): 407-43. 2010

“NCAA Athlete Graduation Rates: Less Than Meets the Eye” Journal of Sport Management, vol. 24, no. 1 (January): 45-59. 2010              

“Retail Price Concentration, Transactions Costs, and Price Flexibility circa 1900” Explorations in Economic History, vol. 44, no. 1 (January): 131-53. 2007

“Professional Team Sports are Only a Game: Comment” Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 7, no. 2 (May): 234-39. 2006             

“Are Autocratic Rulers Also Inside Traders? Cross Country Evidence” Economic Inquiry, vol. 43, no. 1 (January): 13-23. 2005 

“Team Promotion in Early Major League Baseball and the Origin of the Closed Sports League.”Explorations in Economic History, vol. 42, no. 1 (January): 122-52. 2005

“The Law of One Price in 1901” Economic Inquiry, vol. 42, no. 1 (January): 101-10. 2004

 “The ANOVA-Based Competitive Balance Measure: A Defense.” Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 4, no. 1 (February): 74-80. 2003              

“Why Regulate Insider Trading? Evidence from the First Great Merger Wave (1897-1903).”The American Economic Review, vol. 91, no. 5 (December): 1329-50.Co-author:  Ajeyo Banerjee. 2001

“Baseball’s Blue Ribbon Economic Report: Solutions in Search of a Problem.” Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 2, no. 3 (August): 213-27. 2001

"Free Agency, Competitive Balance, and Diminishing Returns to Pennant Contention." Economic Inquiry, vol. 39, no. 3 (July): 430-43. 2001

“The Origin of the Reserve Clause: Owner Collusion vs. ‘Public Interest’.”Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 2, no. 2 (May): 113-30. 2001

"Are Mega-Mergers Anticompetitive?: Evidence from the First Great Merger Wave.” The Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 29, no. 4 (Winter): 803-27. Co-author:  Ajeyo Banerjee. 1998  

"The Competitive Impact of Air Crashes: Stock Market Evidence." The Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 41, no. 2, part 1 (October): 503-19. Co-authors:  Jean-Claude Bosch and Vijay Singal. 1998                            

“The NCAA Cartel and Competitive Balance in College Football.” Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 13, no. 3 (June): 347-69. 1998 [reprinted in The Economics of Sport, Andrew Zimbalist ed., 2001, p. 480-503.]

“EPA Enforcement, Firm Response Strategies, and Stockholder Wealth: An Empirical Examination.”  Managerial and Decision Economics vol. 19, no. 3 (May): 167-78. Co-authors: Jean-Claude Bosch and Insup Lee. 1998

"The Impact of the 1980's Merger Movement on U.S. Industrial Concentration." The Antitrust Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer): 397-421. 1995   

"A Note on the Profit/Concentration Relation." Applied Economics, vol. 27, no. 2 (February): 219-23. 1995 

"An Empirical Test of the Free Rider and Market Power Hypotheses: A Comment." The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 76, no. 3 (August): 586-89. 1994

"Plant-Level Scale Economies and Industrial Concentration." The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 34, no. 2 (Summer): 173-82. 1994  

"Cost Competition: New Evidence on an Old Issue." Applied Economics, vol. 24, no. 11 (November): 1241-50. 1992  

"Price Fixing: The Probability of Getting Caught." The Review of Economics and Statistics, Co-author:  Peter G. Bryant, vol. 73, no. 3 (August): 531-36. 1991    

"The Profitability of Price Fixing: Evidence from Stock Market Reaction to Federal Indictments." The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 73, no. 2 (May): 309-17. Co-author: Jean-Claude Bosch. 1991

"Competition and the Cigarette TV  Advertising Ban." Economic Inquiry, vol. 29, no. 1 (January): 119-33. 1991           

"The Extent of Single Firm Dominance in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: Reply." Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 5, no. 3 (September): 107-13. 1990             

"Concentration Changes and Large Firm/ Small Firm Efficiency Differences: Evidence from U.S Manufacturing Industries.” Applied Economics, vol. 22, no. 1 (January): 131-42. 1990

"The Extent of Single Firm Dominance in U.S. Manufacturing Industries." Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 4, no. 1 (March): 23-38. 1989        

"Advertising, Concentration Changes, and Consumer Welfare." The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 70, no. 2 (May): 340-43. [also see Erratum, REStat, August 1988, 547, correcting a major printing error]. 1988

"Advertising, Competition, and Market Share Instability."  Journal of Business, vol. 60, no. 4 (October): 539-52. 1987               

"U.S. Small Community Air Service Subsidies: Essential or Superfluous?" Journal of Transport Economics & Policy, vol. 21, no. 3 (September): 255-77. Co-author:  Lawrence F. Cunningham. 1987        

"The Effects of State Automobile Dealer Entry Regulation on New Car Prices." Economic Inquiry, vol. 23, no. 2 (April): 223-42. 1985 [reprinted in T.L. Wyrick, The Economist’s Handbook: A Research and Teaching Guide, 1994]

"Alternative Vertical Structures: The Case of the Japanese Auto Industry." Business Economics, vol. 19, no. 5 (October): 57-61. 1984     

"Firm Market Share, Price Flexibility, and Imperfect Information.” Economic Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 3 (July): 388-92. 1982             

"Concentration Changes and Inflation: Some Evidence." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 89, no. 5 (October): 1044-51. 1981

"Industrial Concentration, Plant Scale Economies, and Multi-Plant Operations: Further Evidence." Review of Business and Economic Research vol.16, no. 3 (Spring): 90-97. 1981

"Antitrust and the Concentration Doctrine:  A Rejoinder." Business Economics, vol. 16, no. 2 (March): 22-25. 1981

"The Free Market Incentive: Self Interest vs. Greed." Business Economics, vol. 15, no. 4 (September): 32-35. 1980

"Antitrust Policy and the Market Concentration Doctrine:  A Static View of a Dynamic Economy."  Business Economics, vol. 15, no. 1 (January): 31-34. 1980  

"A Note on the Empirical Measurement of    Vertical Integration." Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 28, no. 1 (September): 105-07. 1979