Curriculum Vitae

Professor Connor's research focuses on empirical studies of industrial organization and public policies that promote competition. He teaches graduate courses in the economics of food marketing, price analysis, and industrial organization. In the past ten years, his writing and speaking has specialized in international price fixing and antitrust law enforcement. Click here for some recent publications.

Professor Connor received, with others, the American Agricultural Economics Association's Distinguished Policy Contribution Award in 1980, the Quality of Communication Award in 1985, and the Distinguished Extension Program Award in 1993. In 2002 he was the sole recipient of the AAEA’s Quality of Communication Award, which was granted for his book Global Price Fixing. This book was also awarded the Cohen Award for the best antitrust publication of 2003. A second edition was released in 2006 and a paperback edition in 2008.

Connor holds an A.B degree from Boston College (Mathematics, cum laude), an M.A degree from the University of Florida, and a Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin. He has also taught at the Merchants of Light School, Oba, Nigeria; Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland; and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza and Cremona, Italy. He is a member of the Board of Advisors and now Senior Advisor to the American Antitrust Institute.

Recent publications include:

• Latin America and the Control of International Cartels, in Competition Law and Policy in Latin America, D. Daniel Sokol (editor). Hart Publishing (forthcoming 2009).
  
  


• Factors Influencing the Magnitude of Cartel Overcharges: An Empirical Analysis of the US Market. Journal of Competition Law and Economics 5 (2008) [with Y. Bolotova and D. Miller].
  
  


• Global Antitrust Prosecutions of International Cartels: Focus on Asia. World Competition (December 2008).
  
  


• How to Block Cartel Formation and Price Fixing: Using Extraterritorial Application of the Antitrust Laws as a Deterrent, Pennsylvania State University Law Review 122 (March 2008) [with Darren Bush].
  
  


• The Impact of Collusion on Price Behavior: Empirical Results from Two Recent Cases. International Journal of Industrial Organization 26 (January 2008) [with Y. Bolotova and D. Miller].
  
  


• Evolution of the Global Lysine Industry, 1960-2000, Chapter 8, pp. 237-66 in Innovation in the Food & Drink Industry, Ruth Rama (ed.). New York: Haworth Press (2008).
  
  


• Global Cartels Redux: The Amino Acid Lysine Antitrust Litigation (1996), The Antitrust Revolution (Fifth Edition), John E. Kwoka and Lawrence White (editors). Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming August 2008).
  
  


• Countering the Evil of Cartels, in The Next Antitrust Agenda, ed. by Albert Foer. San Francisco: van der Plas Publications (November 2008).
  
  


• Optimal Cartel Fines, Issues in Competition Law and Policy: Three Volumes, Wayne Dale Collins (editor). Chicago: Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association (July 2008) [with Robert H. Lande].
  
  


• Forensic Economics Applied to Price-Fixing Overcharges. Journal of Competition Law & Economics Vol. 4, No. 1 (October 2007): 31-59.
  
  


• Price-Fixing Overcharges: Legal and Economic Evidence, Chapter 4, pp. 59-153 in John B. Kirkwood (editor), Volume 22 of Research in Law and Economics. Oxford, Amsterdam and San Diego: Elsevier (January 2007).
  
  


• Cartel Overcharges: Implications for U.S. and EU Fining Policies, Antitrust Bulletin 51 (Winter 2006): 983-1022 [with Robert H. Lande].
  
  


• Factors Influencing the Magnitude of Cartel Overcharges: An Empirical Analysis of Food-Industry Cartels, Agribusiness: An International Journal 23 (Winter 2006-2007):17-33 [with Yuliya Bolotova and Douglas J. Miller].
  
  


• Effectiveness of Sanctions on Modern International Cartels, Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade 6 (2006): 195-223.
  
  


• A Meta-Analysis of Cartel Overcharges, International Journal of Industrial Organization 24 (Nov. 2006): 1109-1137 [with Yuliya Bolotova].
  
  


• How High Do Cartels Raise Prices? Implications for Optimal Cartel Fines, Tulane Law Review 80 (December 2005): 513-570 [with Robert H. Lande].
  


• Collusion and Price Dispersion, Applied Economics Letters 12 (May 2005): 335-338.
  
  


• Food Multinational Enterprise Investment Strategies: An Option Theory Approach, Research Management 3 (Winter 2004-2005): 87-99 [with Roberto Vassolo and Filipe A. Ravara].