Kenneth Corts

Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources / Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at Rotman School of Management

Biography

Rotman School of Management

Professor Kenneth S. Corts is Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources and Academic Director of the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. He also holds the Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship and is a professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy area.

Professor Corts has previously served in a number of other academic leadership positions at the University of Toronto, including Interim Dean at Rotman; Acting Vice-President, University Operations and Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Operations at U of T; and Director of the Rotman Commerce, a role that reports to the Deans of both Rotman and the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA and INSEAD and a visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley and IESE. Before joining the Rotman School in 2003, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Competition and Strategy area at Harvard Business School. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1994.

Professor Corts is a microeconomist with research and teaching interests in industrial organization, competition policy, organizational economics, and energy policy; he has published his research in leading academic journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. Professor Corts has also published a number of Harvard Business School case studies that are used at top business schools throughout the world, served as Editor at the Journal of Industrial Economics from 2005-2010, and won grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to his academic contributions, Professor Corts has provided expert testimony in competition policy cases before the Competition Tribunal and the Ontario Superior Court, co-authored a policy analysis paper for the UK Office of Fair Trading, and consulted on antitrust matters in the U.S.

Selected Publications - Papers

  • How the Source of the Entrant's Advantage Limits Enrty-Deterring Tying
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Canadian Journal of Economics
    Issue:51
    2018
    Pages: 510-527

  • The Effects of Platform MFNs on Competition and Entry
    Andre Boik and Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Law and Economics
    Issue:59
    2016
    Pages: 105-134

  • Finite Optimal Penalties for False Advertising
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Industrial Economics
    Issue:62
    2014
    Pages: 661-681

  • Prohibitions on False and Unsubstantiated Claims: Inducing the Acquisition and Revelation of Information through Competition Policy
    Kenneth Corts
    Journal of Law and Economics
    Issue:56
    2013
    Pages: 453-486

  • The Interaction of Implicit and Explicit Contracts in Construction and Procurement Contracting
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
    Issue:28
    2012
    Pages: 550-568

  • Building Out Alternative Fuel Retail Infrastructure: Government Fleet Spillovers in E85
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
    Issue:59
    2010
    Pages: 219-234

  • Software Exclusivity and the Scope of Indirect Network Effects in the U.S. Home Video Game Market
    Kenneth S. Corts and Mara Lederman
    International Journal of Industrial Organization
    Issue:27
    2009
    Pages: 121-136

  • Stacking the Deck: Idling and Reactivation of Capacity in Offshore Drilling
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
    Issue:17
    2008
    Pages: 271-294

  • Teams vs. Individual Accountability: Solving Multi-Task Problems through Job Design
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Rand Journal of Economics
    Issue:38
    2007
    Pages: 468-480

  • The Effects of Repeated Contracting on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling
    Kenneth S. Corts and Jasjit Singh
    Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
    Issue:20
    2004
    Pages: 230-260

  • Credible Delegation
    Kenneth S. Corts and Darwin V. Neher
    European Economic Review
    Issue:47
    2003
    Pages: 395-407

  • Conduct Parameters and the Measurement of Market Power
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Journal of Econometrics
    Issue:88
    1999
    Pages: 227-225

  • Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: All-Out Competition and Strategic Commitment
    Kenneth S. Corts
    Rand Journal of Economics
    Issue:29
    1998
    Pages: 306-323

Honors and Awards

  • 2010
    Best Paper on Competition Economics, Association of Competition Economists

  • 2012-2018
    Research Grant, SSHRC

  • 2010
    Paul Geroski Prize, International Journal of Industrial Organization

  • 2008-2011
    Research Grant, SSHRC

  • 2006 Research Grant, NET Institute

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