Joseph E. HARRINGTON Jr.

Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His fields of inquiry are industrial organization and organization theory and involve the use of both analytical and computational methods. He has published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, and RAND Journal of Economics. He is best well-known for his work on collusion which has investigated the impact on collusive pricing of cyclical demand, entry, imperfect monitoring, and multi-market interaction. His research on organizations has focused on the role of organizational structure and is reviewed (along with other work) in "Agent-Based Models of Organizations," (co-authored with Myong-Hun Chang) which is forthcoming in the second volume of the Handbook of Computational Economics. Professor Harrington is currently a co-editor at the RAND Journal of Economics and is formerly an editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization and a co-editor at the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Along with John Vernon and Kip Viscusi, he is a co-author of Economics of Regulation and Antitrust; the fourth edition of which is due out in 2005 from MIT Press.