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Michael A. Williams

Michael A. Williams, Ph.D. is a managing director at Berkeley Research Group, LLC. He specializes in analyses involving antitrust, industrial organization, and regulation. He has published articles in a number of academic journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, American Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Law and Economics, American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Behavioral Science, Antitrust Bulletin, Physica A, Texas Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Academic Capture

High Prices and Market Power of Academic Publishing Reduce Article Citations

Yonghong An
In new research, Yonghong An, Michael A. Williams, and Mo Xiao find that increases in an academic journal’s subscription price and its publisher’s market share leads to fewer article citations, hindering knowledge creation and research collaboration.

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