Academic Papers and Publications
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"Enforcing Cooperation Among Medieval Merchants: The Maghribi Traders Revisited" by David Harbord, SSRN Working Paper Series: Economic History Research Network, 8 November 2006. Invited for resubmission to the Journal of Economic History.
Slide presentation on "Enforcing Cooperation Among Medieval Merchants: The Maghribi Traders Revisited" for Extra-legal Governance and Organized Crime Discussion Group Seminar, Oxford, 18 November 2006.
"Designing Electricity Auctions" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 23-46, 2006. (Slide presentation).
"Modelling Electricity Auctions" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, Electricity Journal, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 72-81, September 2002. (Slide presentation).
"Designing Electricity Auctions: Uniform, Discriminatory and Vickrey" by Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord. Paper presented to the IDEI's Conference on "Wholesale Markets for Electricity," University of Toulouse, 22-23 November 2002.
"Contracts and Competition in the Pay-TV Market" by David Harbord and Marco Ottaviani, Economics Discussion Paper No. 45, Regulation Initiative Working Paper Series, London Business School, June 2001.
"State Aids, Restructuring and Privatisation" by David Harbord and George Yarrow, in European Economy, No 3, State Aid and the Single Market, Chapter 5, pp. 89-131, 1999.
"Competition in Electricity Spot Markets: Economic Theory and International Experience" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, University of Oslo Memorandum in Economics No 5/1998.
"Capacity Investment and Competition in Decentralised Electricity Markets" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, University of Oslo Memorandum in Economics No 27/1997.
"Capacity Investment and Long-Run Efficiency in Market-Based Electricity Industries" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, in Competition in the Electricity Supply Industry: Experience from Europe and the United States, O.J. Olsen (ed.), 1995.
"Barriers to Entry and Exit in European Competition Policy" by David Harbord and Tom Hoehn, International Review of Law and Economics, Volume 14, pp. 411-435, 1994.
"Spot Market Competition and Long-Term Contracts in the England and Wales' Electricity Market" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, 1994. Revised version of University of Oslo Economics Memorandum No. 14/1992, "Long-Term Contracts and Imperfectly Competitive Spot Markets: A Study of the UK Electricity Industry."
"Spot Market Competition in the UK Electricity Industry" by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, Economic Journal, Volume 103, pp. 531-546, 1993. Reprinted in Paul L. Joskow and Michael Waterson (eds) Empirical Industrial Organization, Edward Elgar, 2004; and in Ray Rees (ed) The Economics of Public Utilities, Edward Elgar, 2006.