Research Interests for Curtis R. Taylor

Curtis R. Taylor’s research interests include industrial organization, game theory, contract theory, and political economy. His work has also explored the specifics of consumer privacy, market crashes, and political polls. He recently received funding from the NET Institute for his project entitled, “Privacy and Price Discrimination in Electronic Commerce.” From 2004-2008, he worked under a grant from the National Science Foundation on his research for, “Privacy and Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets.” He has also won grants from NSF on three earlier occasions, and also from the State of Texas Advanced Research Program, The Bush Program in Public Policy at Texas A&M, and from the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Research Initiative. His works have appeared in numerous prestigious academic journals, from the RAND Journal of Economics and the Journal of Industrial Economics, to the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. Titles of his latest papers include, “Public Information and Electoral Bias” with Huseyin Yildrim, “Price Experimentation with Strategic Buyers” with Oksana Loginova, “Privacy and Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets,” and others.

Keywords:

consumer privacy, political polls, market crashes

Recent Publications

1. C.R. Taylor, Re-Examining Voter Turnout in Large Elections (2005) [pdf] [abs]
2. C.R. Taylor, Privacy and Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets (August, 2004)
3. C.R. Taylor,Gokhan Ozertan, Diana M. Burton and H. Alan Love, Property Rights Protection of Biotechnology Innovations (August, 2004)
4. C.R. Taylor, Oksana Loginova, “Price Experimentation when Consumers Are Strategic (April, 2004)
5. C.R. Taylor, The Long Side of the Market and the Short End of the Stick: Bargaining Power in Buyers’, Sellers’, and Balanced Markets, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 110 (August 1995), pp. 837–855