Charles Moul
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Farmer School of Business
2054 FSB
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Office: 2032 FSB
Tel: (513) 529-2867
Fax: (513) 529-6992
Email: moulcc [at] miamioh.edu
Professor Moul specializes in empirical industrial
organization, but he is generally interested in applied micro topics. His work
to date has focused upon the economics of motion picture distribution
(especially regarding information and advertising), the impact of marginal
costs on firm entry decisions (specifically taxes in the retail gasoline
industry), vertical issues (in movies and mobile phones), and the detection of
collusion (in theatrical movie distribution and international chess). Other
work spans contemporary Australian bookies on horserace wagering, market structure
in pre-Civil War banking, and temporary monopoly power in Midwest propane.
After spending eight years at
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Classes
Taught
Miami University
ECO 201: Introduction to Microeconomics
ECO 201H: Introduction to Microeconomics (Honors)
ECO 315: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECO 405: Economics of Strategy
ECO 420V: Screen Economics (half-semester, movies & television)
ECO 461: Industrial
Organization and Public Policy
ECO 615: Advanced Microeconomic Theory (MA)
Econ 103B: Introduction to Political Economy: Microeconomics
Econ 452: Industrial Organization
Econ 5553: Topics in Empirical Industrial Organization (PhD)
A
Concise Handbook of Movie Industry Economics
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to see this edited volume at Amazon.com.
Downloadable papers (by
topic, some overlap)
All
published papers (with abstracts)
Chess
(Did the Soviets Collude?)
College choice (Money isn’t Everything)
Cost disease (Disease or Utopia?)
Detecting
Collusion (Did the Soviets Collude? - chess; Retailer
Entry Conditions and Wholesaler Conduct – movies; New Test for Monopoly -
theory)
Endogenous
Market Structure (How Far for a Buck?- retail gasoline; Office Supply
Superstores; Indiana Panic of 1854)
Gasoline
(How Far for a Buck?)
Horses (House Doesn’t
Always Win, Time to Unbridle?)
Information
and Advertising (Measuring Word of Mouth - movies; Omitting Advertising in
Demand - movies)
Macro
Data and Benford's Law
Mandatory
Menu Labeling and Diabetes
Movies
(Qualitative Learning-by-Doing, Retailer Entry Conditions, Measuring Word of
Mouth, Omitting Advertising in Demand)
Propane & Temporary Monopoly Power
Vertical relationships (Retailer Entry Conditions and Wholesaler Conduct – movies; Who Should Handle Retail? – mobile phones)
Working papers
Consequences of Wisconsin’s Act 10: Teacher compensation and employment, with Becca Jorgensen, 2020 (link)
A Cournot-Based Proof of Concept for Equilibrium Vertical Foreclosure, 2020 (link)
Links to Web appendices
Retailer Entry Conditions and Wholesaler Conduct: The
theatrical distribution of motion pictures (link)
The Political Economy of Numbers: On the Application
of Benford's Law to International Macroeconomic
Statistics (link)
Who Should Handle Retail? Vertical contracts, customer service, and social welfare in a Chinese mobile phone market (link)
Feel free to e-mail me with your comments. If you were unable to successfully download any materials, let me know and I will be happy to send a hard copy.
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Last updated: July 1, 2021