Professor of Economics
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd.
Merced, CA 95343
email: rinnes at ucmerced.edu
Office: COB 365
Full CV
Research Interests:
Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, Agricultural Policy and Markets, Finance
Publications:
Innes, Robert. “Does Deception Raise or Lower Lie Aversion? Experimental Evidence.” Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, June 2022.
Gawn, Glynis, and Robert Innes. “Machiavelli Preferences Without Blame: Delegating Selfish vs. Generous Decisions in Dictator Games.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, February 2021.
Gawn, Glynis and Robert Innes. "Who Delegates? Evidence from Dictator Games." Economics Letters 181, August 2019, pp. 186-9.
Gawn, Glynis and Robert Innes. "Lying Through Others: Does Delegation Promote Deception?” Journal of Economic Psychology 71, March 2019, pp. 59-73.
Gawn, Glynis and Robert Innes. "Language and Lies” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 74, June 2018, pp. 167-76.
Gawn, Glynis, and Robert Innes. “Do Lies Erode Trust?” International Economic Review 59, February 2018, pp. 137-61.
Hamilton, Stephen, and Robert Innes. “Slotting Allowances and Retail Product Variety Under Oligopoly.” Economics Letters 158, September 2017, pp. 34-6, 2017.
Innes, Robert. "Lie Aversion and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement." Journal of Regulatory Economics 52, October 2017, pp. 107-31.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, and Robert Innes. “Concentration, Product Variety and Entry-for-Merger: Evidence from New Product Introductions in the U.S. Food Industry.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017.
IInnes, Robert, and Arnab Mitra. “Parties, Politics and Regulation: Do Republican Congressmen Reduce Local EPA Enforcement of Clean Air Laws.” Economic Inquiry, 2015.
Gupta, Sonam, and Robert Innes. ”Private Politics and Environmental Management.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014.
Carrion-Flores, Carmen, Robert Innes, and Abdoul Sam. “Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs (VPRs) Spur or Deter Environmental Innovation? Evidence from 33/50.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2013.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, and Robert Innes. “Income and the Environment in Rural India: Is There a Poverty Trap?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013.
Innes, Robert, and Arnab Mitra. “Is Dishonesty Contagious?” Economic Inquiry, 2013.
Guerrero, Santiago, and Robert Innes. “Self-Policing Statutes: Do They Reduce Pollution and Save Regulatory Costs?” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2013.
Carrion-Flores, Carmen E. and Robert Innes. “Environmental Innovation and Environmental Performance.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2010.
Innes, Robert, and George Frisvold. “The Economics of Endangered Species.” Annual Reviews of Resource Economics, 2009.
Innes, Robert, and Stephen Hamilton. “Vertical Restraints and Horizontal Control.” RAND Journal of Economics, 2009.
Sam, Abdoul, Madhu Khanna, and Robert Innes. “How do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs (VPRs) Work? An Empirical Study of Links Between VPRs, Environmental Management, and Environmental Performance.” Land Economics, 2009.
Innes, Robert. “Coming to the Nuisance: Revisiting Spur in a Model of Location Choice.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2009.
Innes Robert and Abdoul Sam. “Voluntary Pollution Reductions and the Enforcement of Environmental Law: An Empirical Study of the 33/50 Program.” Journal of Law and Economics, 2008.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, and Robert Innes. “An Empirical Exploration of the Population-Environment Nexus in India.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008.
Innes, Robert. “Entry for Merger with Flexible Manufacturing: Implications for Competition Policy.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 2008.
Yang, Hai-Lan, and Robert Innes. “Economic Incentives and Residential Waste Management in Taiwan: An Empirical Investigation.” Environmental and Resource Economics 2007.
Innes, Robert. “Entry Deterrence by Non-Horizontal Merger.” Journal of Industrial Economics 2006.
Innes, Robert and Stephen Hamilton. “Naked Slotting Fees for Vertical Control of Multi-Product Retail Markets.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 2006.
Innes, Robert. “A Theory of Consumer Boycotts Under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition.” Economic Journal 2006.
Innes, Robert. “Fines, Appeals and Liability in Public Enforcement with Stochastic Damage and Asymmetric Information.” Economica 2004.
Innes, Robert. “Enforcement Costs, Optimal Sanctions, and the Choice Between Ex-Post Liability and Ex-Ante Regulation.” International Review of Law and Economics 2004.
Innes, Robert. “Crop Insurance in a Political Economy: An Alternative Perspective on Agricultural Policy.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2003.
Innes, Robert. “Stop and Go Agricultural Policies with a Land Market.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2003.
Innes, Robert. “Stochastic Pollution, Costly Sanctions, and Optimality of Emission Permit Banking.” Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 2003.
Innes, Robert, and Joseph Bial. “Inducing Innovation in the Environmental Technology of Oligopolistic Firms.” Journal of Industrial Economics 2002.
Innes, Robert. “Violator Avoidance Activities and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 2001.
Innes, Robert, and Dennis Cory. “The Economics of Safe Drinking Water.” Land Economics 2001.
Innes, Robert. “The Economics of Takings and Compensation When Land and Its Public Use Value Are in Private Hands.” Land Economics 2000.
Innes, Robert. “The Economics of Livestock Waste and Its Regulation.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2000.
Innes, Robert. “Self-Reporting and Optimal Law Enforcement When Violators Have Heterogeneous Probabilities of Apprehension.” Journal of Legal Studies 2000.
Innes, Robert. “Self-Policing and Optimal Law Enforcement When Violation Remediation is Valuable.” Journal of Political Economy 1999.
Innes, Robert. “Optimal Liability with Stochastic Harms, Judgment-Proof Injurers and Asymmetric Information.” International Review of Law and Economics 1999.
Innes, Robert. “Remediation and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement.” Journal of Public Economics 1999.
Innes, Robert, Stephen Polasky, and John Tschirhart. “Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 1998.
Innes, Robert. “Takings, Compensation and Equal Treatment for Owners of Developed and Undeveloped Property.” Journal of Law and Economics 1997.
Innes, Robert. “Regulating Automobile Pollution Under Certainty, Competition and Imperfect Information.” Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 1996.
Innes, Robert and Sergio Ardila. “Agricultural Insurance and Soil Depletion in a Simple Dynamic Model.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1994.
Innes, Robert and Richard Sexton. “Strategic Buyers and Exclusionary Contracts.” American Economic Review 1994.
Gawn, Glynis, Robert Innes, Gordon Rausser, and David Zilberman. “Nutrient Demand and the Allocation of Time: Evidence from Guam.” Applied Economics 1993.
Innes, Robert. “Two Season Subsistence Farming, Urban Food Subsidies and Optimal Agricultural Policy.” Oxford Economic Papers 1993.
Ardila, Sergio, and Robert Innes. “Risk, Risk Aversion and On-Farm Soil Depletion.” Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 1993.
Innes, Robert, and Richard Sexton. “Customer Coalitions, Monopoly Price Discrimination and Generic Entry Deterrence.” European Economic Review 1993.
Innes, Robert. “Financial Contracting Under Risk Neturality, Limited Liability and Ex-Ante Asymmetric Information.” Economica 1993.
Innes, Robert. “Debt, Futures and Options: Optimal Price-Linked Financial Contracts Under Moral Hazard and Limited Liability.” International Economic Review 1993.
Saha, Atanu, Robert Innes, and Rulon Pope. “Production and Savings Under Uncertainty.” International Review of Economics and Finance 1993.
Innes, Robert, Cathy Kling, and Jonathan Rubin. “Emission Permits Under Monopoly.” Natural Resource Modeling 1992.
Innes, Robert. “Adverse Selection, Investment and Profit Taxation.” European Economic Review 1992.
Bjornson, Bruce and Robert Innes. “Risk and Return in Agriculture: Evidence from an Explicit Factor Arbitrage Pricing Model.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 1992.
Bjornson, Bruce, and Robert Innes. “Another Look at Returns to Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Assets.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1992.
Innes, Robert. “Investment and Government Intervention in Credit Markets When There is Asymmetric Information.” Journal of Public Economics 1991.
Innes, Robert. “Government Target Price Intervention in Economies with Incomplete Markets.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 1990.
Innes, Robert. “Limited Liability and Incentive Contracting with Ex-Ante Action Choices.” Journal of Economic Theory 1990.
Innes, Robert. “Imperfect Information and the Theory of Government Intervention in Farm Credit Markets.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1990.
Innes, Robert. “Uncertainty, Incomplete Markets and Government Farm Programs.” Southern Economic Journal 1990.
Innes, Robert, and Gordon Rausser. “Incomplete Markets and Government Agricultural Policy.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1989.
Innes, Robert, and Hoy Carman. “Tax Reform and Beef Cow Replacement Strategy.” Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 1988.
Selected Other Publications:
Innes, Robert. “Liability Rules and the Environment,” in Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Economics, 2012.
Innes, Robert. “The Economics of Agricultural Residuals and Overfertilization: Chemical Fertilizer Use, Livestock Waste, Manure Management, and Environmental Impacts,” in Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Economics, 2012.
Innes, Robert. “Self-Enforcement of Environmental Law,” in Law and Economics of the Environment, A. Heyes, ed., Edward Elgar, 2001.
Innes, Robert. “Market Failures and Second-Best Policy with a Focus on Nutrition, Credit and Incomplete Markets,” in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 2, B. Gardner and G. Rausser, ed.s, Elsevier Science, 2001.
Innes, Robert. “The Economics of Takings in a Multi-Parcel Model with a Powerful Government,” in Protecting Endangered Species in the United States, J. Shogren and J. Tschirhart, ed.s, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Innes, Robert. “Takings and Endangered Species Protection.” Choices 1999.
Innes, Robert. “Regulating Livestock Waste: An Economic Perspective.” Choices 1999.
Innes, Robert. “Environmental Standards and Liability with Limited Assets and Private Information,” in Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management, E. Loehman and M. Kilgour, ed.s, Edward Elgar, 1998.
Beattie, Bruce and Robert Innes. “Federal Funding of Agriculural Research, Education and Extension in the Land Grant Universities: An Economic Perspective.” Choices 1997.
Innes, Robert, and Richard Sexton. “Divide and Conquer Price Discrimination in Entry Games with Strategic Buyers,” in Agricultural Markets: Mechanisms, Failures, & Regulations, D. Martimort, ed., North Holland, 1996.
Innes, Robert. “Politics and the Public Interest in Farm Policy: Five Litmus Test Issues.” Choices 1995.
Innes, Robert, and Sally Kane. “Agricultural Impacts of Global Warming: Discussion.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1995.
Innes, Robert. “An Essay on Takings: Concepts and Issues.” Choices 1995. (Reprinted in The Best of Choices, 1996.)
Innes, Robert, and Sergio Ardila. “Agricultural Insurance, Production and the Environment,” In Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance: Theory and Evidence, D. Hueth and W. Furtan, ed.s, Kluwer, 1994.
Innes, Robert, Edward Keller, and Hoy Carman. “California Experience with Chapter 12 Bankruptcy.” Journal of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers 1989 (also Cal. Ag. 1989).
Innes, Robert, and Hoy Carman. “Effects of Tax Reform on Beef Cattle Operations.” California Agriculture 1989.
Carman, Hoy, and Robert Innes. “Income Tax Reform and California Farmers: Who Wins and Who Loses?” California Agriculture 1987.
Working Papers and Work in Progress:
Glynis Gawn and Robert Innes. "Language, Lies and Persuasion."
Glynis Gawn and Robert Innes. "Tense and Trust."
Glynis Gawn and Robert Innes. "Pure Lie Aversion in Two Sided Games: Another Look."
Innes, Robert and Anand Murugesan. "Markets for Children: International Adoptions, IVF, and U.S. Foster Care."
Innes, Robert, and Stephen Hamilton. “Slotting Allowances and Product Variety in Oligopoly Markets.”
Innes, Robert. “A Theory of Moral Contagion.”
Innes, Robert. “Environmental Policy, R&D and the Porter Hypothesis in a Model of Stochastic Invention and Differentiated Product Competition by Domestic and Foreign Firms.”
Innes, Robert. “Editorial Favoritism.”
