Books

1. Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World (2008) (co-editor with D.C. Mowery). National Academy Press: Washington, DC.

2. U.S. Freight Rail Economics And Policy: Are We On The Right Track? (2019) (co-editor with J.W. Mayo). Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis: New York, NY.

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Refereed Journal Articles

1. Macher, J.T., D.C. Mowery and D.A. Hodges (1998) “Reversal of fortune? The Recovery of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry.” California Management Review 41(1): 107-136.

2. Macher, J.T., D.C. Mowery and T.S. Simcoe (2002) “eBusiness and the Semiconductor Industry Value Chain: Implications for Vertical Specialization and Integrated Semiconductor Manufacturers.” Industry and Innovation 9(3): 155-181.

3. Macher, J.T. and D.C. Mowery (2003) “‘Managing’ Learning by Doing: An Empirical Study in Semiconductor Manufacturing.” Journal of Product Innovation Management 20(5): 391-410.

4. Henisz, W.J. and J.T. Macher (2004) “Firm- and Country-Level Tradeoffs and Contingencies in the Evaluation of Foreign Investment: The Semiconductor Industry, 1994-2002.” Organization Science 15(5): 537-554.

5. Macher, J.T. and B.D. Richman (2004) “Organizational Responses to Discontinuous Innovation: A Case Study Approach.” International Journal of Innovation Management 8(1): 87-114.

6. Macher, J.T. (2006) “Technological Development and the Boundaries of the Firm: A Knowledge-Based Examination in Semiconductor Manufacturing.” Management Science 52(6): 826-843.

7. Macher, J.T. and C.S. Boerner (2006) “Experience and Scale and Scope Economies: Tradeoffs and Performance in Development.” Strategic Management Journal 27(9): 845-865.

8. Macher, J.T., D.C. Mowery and A. Di Minin (2007) “The ‘Non-Globalization’ of Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry.” California Management Review 50(1): 217-242.

9. Burton, M., J.T. Macher and J.W. Mayo (2007) “Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don’t Households Pick up the Lifeline?” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 7(1) (Topics): Article 1.

10. Macher, J.T. and B.D. Richman (2008) “Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences.” Business and Politics 10(1): Article 1.

11. Macher, J.T. and D.C. Mowery (2009) “Measuring Dynamic Capabilities: Practices and Performance in Semiconductor Manufacturing.” British Journal of Management 20: 41-62.

12. Macher, J.T. and J.W. Mayo (2010) “Making a Market out of a Mole Hill? Geographic Market Definition in Aspen Skiing.” Journal of Competition Law and Economics 6(4): 911-926.

13. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and M. Schiffer (2011) “The Influence of Firms on Government,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1) (Advances): Article 1.

14. Weber, L., Mayer, K.J. and J.T. Macher (2011) “An Analysis of Extendibility and Early Termination Provisions: The Importance of Framing Duration Safeguards.” Academy of Management Journal 54(1): 182-202.

15. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and J.A. Nickerson (2011) “Regulator Heterogeneity and Endogenous Efforts to Close the Information Asymmetry Gap: Evidence From FDA Regulation.” Journal of Law and Economics 54(1): 25-54.

16. Macher, J.T. and C.S. Boerner (2012) “Technological Development at the Boundaries of the Firm: A Knowledge-Based Examination in Drug Development.” Strategic Management Journal 33(9): 1016-1036.

17. Macher, J.T. and J.W. Mayo (2012) “The World of Regulatory Influence.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 41(1): 59-79.

18. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and L.F. Pinkowitz (2014) “Revenue Adequacy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” Transportation Law Journal 41(2): 85-127.

19. Macher, J.T. and J.W. Mayo (2015) “Influencing Public Policymaking: Firm-, Industry- and Country-Level Determinants.” Strategic Management Journal 36(13): 2021-2036.

20. Beard, T.R., J.T. Macher and J.W. Mayo (2015) “Can You Hear Me Now? Exit, Voice and Loyalty Under Increasing Competition.” Journal of Law and Economics 58(3): 717-745.

21. Beard, T.R., J.T. Macher and C. Vickers (2016) “This Time is Different (?): Telecommunications Unbundling and Lessons for Railroad Regulation.” Review of Industrial Organization 49(2): 289-310.

22. Macher, J.T, J.W. Mayo, O. Ukhaneva and G. Woroch (2017) “From Universal Service to Universal Connectivity.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 52(1): 77-104.

23. Luo, H., J.T. Macher and J.M. Wahlen (2021) “Judgment Aggregation and Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry.” Management Science 67(10): 6358-6377.

24. Macher, J.T. and J.W. Mayo (2021) “The Evolution of Merger Enforcement Intensity: What do the Data Show?” Journal of Competition, Law and Economics 17(3): 708-727.

25. Macher, J.T., N.H. Miller and M. Osborne (2021) “Finding Mr. Schumpeter: Technology Adoption in the Cement Industry.” RAND Journal of Economics 52(1): 78-99.

26. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo, O. Ukhaneva and G. Woroch (2022) “Demand in a Portfolio-Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications.” Review of Network Economics 21(4): 211-260. 

27. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and D.E.M. Sappington. (2023) “The Evolution of Contracting: Evidence from the U.S. Freight Rail Industry.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewad022.

28. Macher, J.T., C. Rutzer and R. Weder (2024) “Is There a Secular Decline in Disruptive Patents? Correcting for Measurement Bias.” Research Policy 53(5): 1-14.

29. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo, Sappington, D.E.M. and M. Whitener (2024) “The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence from Litigated Merger Challenges.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewae017.

30. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and R. Press. (2025) “Customer Switching, Firm Entry and Regulatory Policy: Evidence from Retail Electricity Market Restructuring.” Economic Inquiry (forthcoming).

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Edited Book Chapters

1. Macher, J.T., D.C. Mowery and D.A. Hodges (1999) “Semiconductors.” In D.C. Mowery (ed.) U.S. Industry in 2000: Studies in Competitive Performance National Academy Press: Washington, DC: 245-286.

2. Boerner, C.S., J.T. Macher, and D.J. Teece (2001) “A Review and Assessment of Organizational Learning in Economic Theories.” In M. Dierkes, A. Berthoin-Antal, J. Child and I. Nonaka (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Oxford University Press: New York, NY: 89-117.

3. Macher, J.T. and D.C. Mowery (2004) “Vertical Specialization and Industry Structure in High Technology Industries.” In J.A.C. Baum and A.M. McGahan (eds.) Business Strategy over the Industry Lifecycle – Advances in Strategic Management 21: 317-356.

4. Macher, J.T., D.C. Mowery and A. Di Minin (2008) “Semiconductors.” In J.T. Macher and D.C. Mowery (eds.) Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World National Academy Press: Washington, DC: 101-140.

5. Leiblein, M.J. and J.T. Macher (2009). “The Problem Solving Perspective: A Strategic Approach to Understanding Environment and Organization.” in B.S. Silverman and J.A. Nickerson (eds.) The Economic Institutions of Strategy – Advances in Strategic Management 26: 97-120.

6. Leiblein, M.J., J.T. Macher and T.S. Ungureanu (2019) “Why Do Small Firms Benefit Less From Alliances Than Large Firms.” In J.J. Reuer, S.F. Matusik and J. Jones (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Oxford University Press: New York, NY. 

7. Macher, J.T., J.W. Mayo and L.F. Pinkowitz (2019) “The Law and Economics of Revenue Adequacy.” in J.T. Macher and J.W. Mayo (eds.) U.S. Freight Rail Economics And Policy: Are We On The Right Track? Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis: New York, NY. 

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Other Publications

1. Macher, J.T. (2000) Review of Capital For Our Time: The Economic, Legal, and Management Challenges of Intellectual Capital. N. Imparato (ed.). In Journal of Economic Literature 38(3): 678-680.

2. Macher, J.T. (2006) Comments on “Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective.” by C. Brown and G. Linden in S.M. Collins and L. Brainard (eds.) Brookings Trade Forum 2005: Offshoring White-Collar Work: 323-328.

3. Macher, J.T. and J.W. Mayo (2012) “It’s Time to Unify Telecommunications Policy.” The Economists’ Voice 9(1): 1-6.

4. Domike, R.D., J.T. Macher, P.W. Barone, S.L. Springs and A.J. Sinskey (2012) “Correlating Product Lifecycle and Manufacturing Site Characteristics with Critical-to-Quality Product Deviations of Commercial Biopharmaceuticals,” Biopharm International 25(10): 50-53.