Francine Lafontaine
- William Davidson Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
- Professor of Economics, LSA
Education
- PhD University of British Columbia 1988
Contact Information
Phone
(734) 647-4915Fax
(734) 936-8715Email
Room
R6390Francine Lafontaine's areas of interest are in the field of Industrial Organization, with a special focus on vertical relationships, including franchising and other forms of inter-firm contracting, and related antitrust issues. Her research is mostly concerned with the application of advances in contract theory to the analysis of organizational issues in the vertical chain, especially into distribution. She also considers the effect of contracting practices on firm performance, as well as issues surrounding business creation and survival in retail and small-scale service industries more generally.
Published Date
2019Source
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Volume:
28Issue:
2Pages:
175-197Published Date
12/2017Source
Journal of Political Economy
Volume:
125Issue:
6Pages:
2082–2125Published Date
05/2017Source
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Volume:
26Issue:
2Pages:
375-402Published Date
2016Source
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization
Volume:
32Issue:
3Pages:
508-544Published Date
04/2016Source
Journal of Labor Economics
Volume:
34Issue:
S2Pages:
S217-S254Published Date
05/2015Source
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Volume:
68Issue:
3Pages:
633-665Published Date
2015Source
Review of Industrial Organization
Volume:
47Issue:
4Pages:
371-398Published Date
01/2015Source
Managerial and Decision Economics
Volume:
36Issue:
1Pages:
33-43Franchising: Directions for Future Research
Published Date
02/2014Source
International Journal of the Economics of Business
Volume:
21Issue:
1Pages:
21-25Published Date
10/2013Source
Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume:
95Issue:
4Pages:
1303-1323Too Far Away? The Effect of Distance to Headquarters on Business Establishment Performance
Published Date
08/2013Source
AEJ - Microeconomics
Volume:
5Issue:
3Pages:
157-179Much Ado about Chains: A Research Agenda
Published Date
05/2012Source
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Volume:
30Issue:
3Pages:
303-308Using Revenue Sharing to Implement Flexible Pricing: Evidence from Movie Exhibition Contracts
Published Date
06/2012Source
Journal of Industrial Economics
Volume:
60Issue:
2Pages:
187-219Published Date
08/2011Source
Journal of Marketing Research
Volume:
48Issue:
4Pages:
781-798Published Date
08/2010Source
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Volume:
24Issue:
3Pages:
233-250Published Date
09/2010Source
Journal of Industrial Economics
Volume:
58Issue:
3Pages:
542-578Published Date
09/2010Source
Antitrust Bulletin
Volume:
55Issue:
3Investigating a Merger in the Pharmacy Benefit Management Industry: The Express Scripts Acquisition of Medco (2012)
Published Date
2018Source
New York, NY: Oxford University Press
The Antitrust Revolution, 7th Edition
John. E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White
On the Use of Economics in Support of the Competition Mission at the FTC
Published Date
2016Source
Institute of Competition Law
Pages:
43-50Global Antitrust Economics, Current Issues in Antitrust and Law & Economics
Douglas H. Ginsburg and Joshua D. Wright
Discussion of Wouter Dessein's Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions
Published Date
2016Source
Oxford University Press
Pages:
61-64The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics
Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Patrick Legros, Luigi Zingales
Franchising and Exclusive Distribution: Adaptation and Antitrust
Published Date
2015Source
Oxford University Press
Oxford Handbook on International Antitrust Economics
Roger Blair and Daniel Sokol
Incentive and Strategic Contracting: Implications for the Franchise Decision
Published Date
2014Source
Springer
Pages:
137-188Game Theory and Business Applications, 2nd edition
Kalyan Chatterjee and William Samuelson
Inter-Firm Contracts: The Evidence
Published Date
2012Source
Princeton University Press
Handbook of Organizational Economics
R. Gibbons and J. Roberts
Within-firm Labor Productivity across Countries: A Case Study
Published Date
09/2009Source
NBER and University of Chicago Press
International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Multinational Firms: A Case-Based Approach
Richard Freeman and Kathryn L. Shaw
Franchise Contracting and Organization - Revised Edition, 2010
Published Date
2005Source
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
The Economics of Franchising
Published Date
2005Source
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press