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John Sutton

John Sutton

Associate and Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics

Expertise: theories of industrial structure and their empirical implementation

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 7716
Email:
j.sutton@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 4.32
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Department of Economics

Biography

John Sutton's current research interests are:

  • Market structure
  • Industrial development
  • Growth of firms

John's latest projects include:

  • Market share dynamics in industrial markets
  • Firm age and industry leadership
  • Evolution of capability and industrial development

Latest

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Broadening the Base: Industrial Development in a Historical Perspective

01 June 2017

John Sutton (LSE)

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CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars
Capabilities, Wealth and Trade

20 November 2013

John Sutton (LSE)

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Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Capabilities, Wealth and the Export Mix

28 October 2010

John Sutton (LSE)

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CEP/DOM Management Research Seminars
Adventures in benchmarking: the impact of globalisation on India and Chinese manufacturing

22 October 2007

John Sutton (LSE)

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Economics of Industry Papers
The Auto-component Supply Chain in China and India - A Benchmark Study

01 February 2004

John Sutton

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which Chinese and Indian auto-component producers have advanced towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of... Read more...
Economics of Industry Papers
Market Share Dynamics and the `Persistence of Leadership? Debate

01 January 2004

John Sutton

This paper introduces a novel analysis of the classic ?persistence of leadership? question, and applies it to a newly constructed dataset for Japanese manufacturing. The analysis rests on an appeal to an empirical ?scali... Read more...
Economics of Industry Papers
The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The 'Scaling' Puzzle

01 September 2001

John Sutton

Certain recently reported statistical regularities relating to the dispersion of firms' growth rates have begun to attract attention among IO economists. These relationships take the form of power law or scaling relation... Read more...
Economics of Industry Papers
Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities: Industrial Development Revisited

01 September 2001

John Sutton

What economic mechanisms underlie the polarization of the world economy into the 'high wage' industrialized countries and the less developed 'low wage' countries? Should we expect the two groups to converge over time, or... Read more...
Theoretical Economics Papers
Multiproduct Firms and Market Structure (Now published in Quarterly Journal of Economics, (November 1989), pp.753-770.)

01 January 1987

Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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Theoretical Economics Papers
Non-Cooperative Bargaining Theory: An Introduction (Now published in Review of Economic Studies, vol.53, No.176 (1986), pp.709-724.)

01 January 1985

John Sutton

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Theoretical Economics Papers
An Outside Option Experiment (Now published in Rand Journal of Economics, vol.21 (Spring 1990), pp.45-62.)

01 January 1985

Ken Binmore, Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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Theoretical Economics Papers
Fairness or Gamesmanship in Bargaining: An Experimental Study (Now published in American Economic Review, vol.75, (Dec. 1985), pp. 1178-1180.)

01 January 1984

Ken Binmore, Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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Theoretical Economics Papers
The Semi-Walrasian Economy

01 January 1984

Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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Theoretical Economics Papers
Involuntary Unemployment as a Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model (Now published in Econometrica, vol.52, (1984), pp.1351-1364.)

01 January 1983

Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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