Kenneth Corts

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