The research can be divided into the following main areas:
A. Competitive behaviour, dynamics, price and non-price competition
B. Price indices and quality adjustment
C. Managerial theories of the firm, asymmetric information, etc
D. Demand analysis
E. Business strategy
F. Efficiency and performance analysis
G. Regulation and competition policy
H. Economics of labour markets
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Mergers and Economics Performance, K Cowling, P Stoneman, J Cubbin, J Cable, G Hall, S Domberger and P Dutton, Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Market Structure and Performance in "Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics" series, Harbury, 1988.
Chapter on "Competition in European Utilities" in New Developments in Competition Policy edited by Roger Clarke Eleanor Morgan, Edward Elgar, 2006
Public Sector Efficiency Measurement: Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis, J Ganley and J Cubbin, North-Holland (Elsevier) 1992.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES
"Price, Quality and Advertising Competition", Economica, November 1971, 378-394 (with Keith Cowling)
"Hedonic Price Indexes for United Kingdom Cars", Economic Journal, September, 1972, 963-978 (with Keith Cowling)
"Estimating the Elasticities of Demand for Sugar", Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1973, 381-390
"Price, Quality and Selling Time in the Housing Market", Applied Economics, 1974, 171-187
"Quality Change and Pricing Behaviour in the UK Car Industry 1956-68", Economica, February 1975, 43-58
"The Extent of benefit-induced unemployment in Great Britain: Some new evidence", Oxford Economic Papers, March 1977 (with K. Foley) 128-40
"Import penetration in the UK passenger car market: A cross section study for 1975", Applied Economics, December 1978 (with D. Leech), 289-303
"The use of real cost as an efficiency measure: An application to merging firms", Journal of Industrial Economics, September 1979, 73-95 (with G. Hall)
"Advertising and the theory of entry barriers", Economica, August 1981, 289-98
"Can product differentiation deter entry?", Journal of Advertising 1982, 361-73
"Directors' remuneration in the theory of the firm: Specification and testing of the managerial hypothesis", European Economic Review, 1983, 333-48 (with G. Hall)
"The effect of shareholding dispersion on the degree of control in British Companies: Theory and Measurement", Economic Journal, June 1983, (vol.93), 351-369 (with D. Leech)- reprinted in Corporate Governance edited by Kevin Keesey, Steve Thompson and Mike Wright: International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, 1999.
"Apparent collusion and conjectural variations in differentiated oligopoly", International Journal of Industrial Organisation, June 1983, (vol.1), 155-64
"Strike propensities at the British workplace", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 48, February 1986, 19-40 (with D. Blanchflower)
"Growth versus profit maximisation: a simultaneous equations approach to testing the Marris model", Managerial and Decision Economics 7, June 1986, 123-32 (with D Leech)
"The convergence of profits in the long run: Inter-firm and Inter-industry comparisons", Journal of Industrial Economics, 1987, pp.427-42, (with P Geroski) - reprinted in The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics, edited by T.F. Bresnahan and R. Schmalensee
"Competitive tendering and refuse collection: identifying the sources of efficiency gains", Fiscal Studies 8, (3), August 1987, 49-58 (with Simon Domberger and Shirley Meadowcroft
"Regression analysis versus linear programming in the analysis of price-quality relationships: an application to the determination of market shares" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 49, (4), November 1987, pp 385-399 (with A J Murfin)
"Performance indicators for Prisons", Public Money 7(3), December 1987, 57-59 (with J Ganley)
"Joint Estimation of the Demand for Fuel Economy and other Characteristics", Modelling Vehicle Demand - alternative views, edited by Garel Rhys and G Harbour, SMMT and U C Cardiff, 1987 (with A J Murfin)
"Advertising and post-entry oligopoly behaviour", Journal of Industrial Economics, December (1988), pp 123-140 (with S Domberger)
"Verifiche della teoria dello sviluppo d'impresa" in Analisi dello Sviluppo d'impresa, edited by Giovanni Zanetti, il Mulino, Bologna, 1989, (with P Geroski and M Cronshaw)
"The persistence of profits in the UK" in The dynamics of company profits: an international comparison, edited by D C Mueller, Cambridge University Press, 1990, (with P Geroski)
"The importance of product positioning: successful entry in the national newspaper market", Business Strategy Review, 1(3),(1990), pp 53-73 (with M Cronshaw and E Davis)
"The use of data envelope analysis in diagnosing bank and building society branch performance" in Ezzamel and Heathfield (eds) Perspectives in Financial Control: Essays in Memory of Ken Hilton, Chapman and Hall (1992)
"Comparative competition: Theory and emerging regulatory practice" Proceedings of a conference on Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Modern Water Business, London, CRI (1993)
"Regression versus Data Envelopment Analysis for Efficiency Measurement: An application to the England and Wales Water Industry" Utilities Policy, vol 7, 1998, 75-85 (With G. Tzanidakis)
"Techniques for Analysing Company Performance" Business Strategy Review, vol 9(4), 1998 pp. 37-46 (with G Tzanidakis)
"The Bosman Ruling and the emergence of a single market in soccer talent" European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 9 (2), 2000, pp157 - 73 (with P. Antonioni) - reprinted in The Economics Of Association Football edited by Bill Gerrard: Edward Elgar, 2006
"The impact of regulatory governance and privatisation on electricity industry generation capacity in developing countries" World Bank Economic Review, 20(1), 115-41, January 2006 (with Jon Stern)
"Economic Analysis of the Efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for Regulatory Policy" in Crew, M.A., and Kleindorfer, P.R. Liberalisation of the Postal and Delivery Sector Advances in Regulatory Economics, Edward Elgar, 2006
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SEMINARS
Papers presented
"The Advertising response to new entry". Joint London Business School/Queen Mary College industrial economics workshop
"Hedonic prices and the demand for fuel and economy" - Conference on "Alternatives approaches to demand estimation", - Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, London
"The dynamics of advertising and the response to new entry" - E.A.R.I.E. meeting, Cambridge
"Strike propensities at the UK workplace" - Institute for Employment Research, Warwick University
"Why do firms set prices?" - Birkbeck College, Southampton University, Australian National University, Staff Seminars, and Industrial Economics Study Group, New College, Oxford
"Data Envelope Analysis: an update" - Civil Service College
"Performance Measurement in Perspective" - Economics Research Bureau Inaugural Conference
"Price posting versus auctions" - Industrial Economies Study Group, New College Oxford
"Testing the theory of growth of the firm" - paper presented to a conference on company growth CERIS Institute, Research Council, Turin
"Using Farrell efficiency measurement to monitor performance: private and public sector applications" - seminars at London Business School, University of Adelaide, Melbourne, Australian Graduate School of Management, and Manchester Business School
"Is it better to be a strong firm in a weak industry or a weak firm in a strong industry?" - Industrial Economics Study Group - Exeter University and conference "Firm Performance Matters" at London Business School
"Product positioning" - Industrial Economics Study Group, London Business School
"Gearing, bankruptcy risk and the dynamics of company profits" - staff seminars presented at Universities of Warwick and Cambridge
"Comparative Competition: Theory and emerging regulatory practice", Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, London
"Cost functions in network industries" NERA regulatory workshop
"Assessing comparative efficiency in Regulated Industries" Industrial Economics Study Group, University of York
"Price Caps and Yardsticks" - staff seminars at Warwick University, City University Economics Department, and City University Business School
"The Bosman Ruling and the emergence of a single market in soccer talent" European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Leuven, Belgium
"Markets, Competition, and Football" Lunchtime seminar to Oftel
Regulatory Effectiveness: The Impact of Regulation on Electricity Industry Outcomes. Cambridge University Energy and Environment seminar and City University departmental seminar
Efficiency in the water industry. Paper delivered at London Business School/Regulation Initiative Conference
Efficiency measurement and benchmarking in the water industry. Meeting on Rail Regulation and Efficiency, Indepen, London
Economic Analysis of the Efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for Regulatory Policy, 14th conference on Postal Economics, Berne , Switzerland.
How the UK lost its belief in National Champions, Rome.
Seminars in Moscow, Istanbul, Ankara, Utrecht, Madrid, Surfers' Paradise, Melbourne and Brussels on aspects of regulation and competition policy