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About our authors Jeffrey M. Perloff is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His economic research covers industrial organization, marketing, labor, trade and econometrics. His textbooks are Modern Industrial Organization (with Dennis Carlton), Microeconomics, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Estimating Market Power and Strategies (with Larry Karp and Amos Golan) and Managerial Economics & Strategy (with James Brander). He has been an editor of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has consulted with nonprofit organizations and government agencies (including the Federal Trade Commission and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Agriculture) on topics ranging from a case of alleged Japanese television dumping to the evaluation of social programs. He has also conducted research in psychology. He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He received his BA in economics from the University of Chicago in 1972 and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. He was previously an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught in the Economics department and the Wharton School. James A. Brander is an emeritus professor in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His main areas of research are industrial organization, international trade and managerial economics more broadly. In addition to this textbook, Managerial Economics and Strategy (with Jeffrey Perloff), he has also written a textbook on Government Policy Toward Business. He is a former President of the Canadian Economics Association and has served as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. He also served as a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics. He has consulted on cases related to price fixing, intellectual property, international trade policy and other areas. He is a fellow of the Canadian Economics Association. He received his BA in economics from UBC in 1975 and his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1979. Before moving to UBC in 1984, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
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