Kenneth S. Corts
Bio
Professor Kenneth S. Corts is Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources and Academic Director of the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. He also holds the Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship and is a professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy area.
Professor Corts has previously served in a number of other academic leadership positions at the University of Toronto, including Interim Dean at Rotman; Acting Vice-President, University Operations and Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Operations at U of T; and Director of the Rotman Commerce, a role that reports to the Deans of both Rotman and the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA and INSEAD and a visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley and IESE. Before joining the Rotman School in 2003, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Competition and Strategy area at Harvard Business School. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1994.
Professor Corts is a microeconomist with research and teaching interests in industrial organization, competition policy, organizational economics, and energy policy; he has published his research in leading academic journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. Professor Corts has also published a number of Harvard Business School case studies that are used at top business schools throughout the world, served as Editor at the Journal of Industrial Economics from 2005-2010, and won grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to his academic contributions, Professor Corts has provided expert testimony in competition policy cases before the Competition Tribunal and the Ontario Superior Court, co-authored a policy analysis paper for the UK Office of Fair Trading, and consulted on antitrust matters in the U.S.
Academic Positions
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2021-present
Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources, Rotman School of Management
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2020-2021
Interim Dean, Rotman School of Management
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2015-2020
Vice-Dean, Faculty & Research, Rotman School of Management
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2015-present
Marcel Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship, Rotman School of Management
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2019-present
Academic Director, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship, Rotman School of Management
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2009-present
Professor, Rotman School of Management
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2017-2018
Visiting Professor, INSEAD
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2013
Visiting Professor, INSEAD
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2009-2015
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education, Rotman School of Management
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2009-2015
Director, Rotman Commerce
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2008
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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2003-2009
Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management
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2000-2003
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
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1999-2000
Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
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1994-2000
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Selected Publications - Papers
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How the Source of the Entrant's Advantage Limits Enrty-Deterring Tying
Kenneth S. Corts
Canadian Journal of Economics
Issue:51
2018
Pages: 510-527
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The Effects of Platform MFNs on Competition and Entry
Andre Boik and Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Law and Economics
Issue:59
2016
Pages: 105-134
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Finite Optimal Penalties for False Advertising
Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Industrial Economics
Issue:62
2014
Pages: 661-681
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Prohibitions on False and Unsubstantiated Claims: Inducing the Acquisition and Revelation of Information through Competition Policy
Kenneth Corts
Journal of Law and Economics
Issue:56
2013
Pages: 453-486
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The Interaction of Implicit and Explicit Contracts in Construction and Procurement Contracting
Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Issue:28
2012
Pages: 550-568
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Building Out Alternative Fuel Retail Infrastructure: Government Fleet Spillovers in E85
Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Issue:59
2010
Pages: 219-234
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Software Exclusivity and the Scope of Indirect Network Effects in the U.S. Home Video Game Market
Kenneth S. Corts and Mara Lederman
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Issue:27
2009
Pages: 121-136
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Stacking the Deck: Idling and Reactivation of Capacity in Offshore Drilling
Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Issue:17
2008
Pages: 271-294
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Teams vs. Individual Accountability: Solving Multi-Task Problems through Job Design
Kenneth S. Corts
Rand Journal of Economics
Issue:38
2007
Pages: 468-480
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The Effects of Repeated Contracting on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling
Kenneth S. Corts and Jasjit Singh
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Issue:20
2004
Pages: 230-260
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Credible Delegation
Kenneth S. Corts and Darwin V. Neher
European Economic Review
Issue:47
2003
Pages: 395-407
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Conduct Parameters and the Measurement of Market Power
Kenneth S. Corts
Journal of Econometrics
Issue:88
1999
Pages: 227-225
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Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: All-Out Competition and Strategic Commitment
Kenneth S. Corts
Rand Journal of Economics
Issue:29
1998
Pages: 306-323
Honors and Awards
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2010
Best Paper on Competition Economics, Association of Competition Economists
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2012-2018
Research Grant, SSHRC
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2010
Paul Geroski Prize, International Journal of Industrial Organization
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2008-2011
Research Grant, SSHRC
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2006
Research Grant, NET Institute
Academic / Professional Service
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2005-2010
Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics
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2004-2005
Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization
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2003-2005
Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics