Professor 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

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

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

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

Theoretical Economics Papers

The Semi-Walrasian Economy

01 January 1984

Avner Shaked and John Sutton

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