Nancy Theresa Gallini

Nancy T. Gallini is an American economist, professor emeritus, researcher, and author. She is a professor emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics based in the University of British Columbia. She has served on multiple editorial boards such as American Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Literature and the Journal of Industrial Economics. In 2008, Dr. Gallini was appointed as a member to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. From 2011-2014 Dr. Gallini served on the executive council for the Canadian Economic Association. Her research "focuses on the economics of intellectual property, competition policy, strategic alliances, licensing, and optimal patent policy". She is the co-author of Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy. She has won numerous awards and a fellowship throughout her career. She has received 8 research grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. These grants are one SSHRC Leave Fellowship, one SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship and six SSHRC Research Grants.

Education Dr. Gallini obtained both her B.A in Mathematics (1973) and Master of Arts in Economics (1974) from the University of Missouri. She went to pursue her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D. in Resource Economics.

Career

Academic positions She started her economics career at the University of Toronto. She became a faculty member in the Department of Economics from 1979-2002. She then went onto become the Chair of the Economics department from 1995-2000. Upon leaving her position at the University of Toronto she moved to Vancouver and became the Dean of Arts at the University of British Columbia from 2002-2010.

She has been a visiting professor at numerous post-secondary institutions such as: "Hitotsubashi University (Japan), the University of New South Wales (Australia), the University of Auckland (New Zealand), Delhi School of Economics (India), the University of Geneva (Switzerland), the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (France), and Yale Law School (United States of America)".

Editorial boards

Memberships and appointments Dr. Gallini was appointed President to the Canadian Council Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2010, she was a member of the Women's Health Research Institute. In 2008, Dr. Gallini was appointed to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She was the leader representative for the University of British Columbia until 2010. She served on the Museum of Anthropology advisory board from 2011 to 2012. She was appointed to serve as a governing member on the Mitacs Research Council from 2011 to 2014. From 2011 to 2014 she also served on the Canadian Economic Association executive council. at the University of British Columbia.

Research and academic works

Select scholarships

"Competition Policy, Patent Pools and Copyright Collectives (2011) The term Intellectual Property has various protection mechanisms that range from patents, copyrights, industrial design rights, trademarks and trade secrets. Due to the differing protection mechanism, each one has their own protection duration, criteria and purpose. Dr. Gallini's paper "analyzes and compares two types of cooperative agreements that combine Intellectual Property: patent pools and copyright collectives". Currently the argument against intellectual property is that it hinders future innovation. There are some inventions that do not fall under patents, but received "sui generis" protection. Patents are designed to promote research and to encourage the creation of new inventions "so that others can use and build upon research results". They state that in this model, the producer export cartel "may lose from a government cartel". Their paper uses the model above to conduct a study on the world wheat economy and they find that the above outcome is true and that "there is a strong possibility that producers would lose from a government wheat cartel if there are decreasing returns in production". The only way to make up for the lost profits for the producer export cartel is if the government was to tax the consumers. If they do not, there is no welfare gain to the producers. They do warn that their model is under the free trade model and that there is the assumption that importers do not retaliate. Consumers are the true winners in this model.

Publications

Selected journal publications

Gallini, Nancy. "Cooperating with Competitors: Patent Pooling and Choice of a New Standard." International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 36, 2014, pp. 4–21. Gallini, Nancy. "Competition Policy, Patent Pools and Copyright Collectives." Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, vol. 8, no. 2, 2011, pp. 3–34. Gallini, Nancy, and Suzanne Scotchmer. "Intellectual Property: When is it the Best Incentive System?" Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol. 2, 2002, pp. 51–77. Gallini, Nancy T. "The Economics of Patents: Lessons from Recent U.S. Patent Reform." The Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 16, no. 2, 2002, pp. 131–154. Gallini, Nancy T., and Aidan Hollis. "A Contractual Approach to the Gray Market." International Review of Law & Economics, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 1–21. Eswaran, Mukesh, and Nancy T. Gallini. “Patent Policy and the Direction of Technological Change.” The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 27, no. 4, 1996, pp. 722–746. Gallini, Nancy T., and Nancy A. Lutz. “Dual Distribution and Royalty Fees in Franchising.” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, vol. 8, no. 3, 1992, pp. 471–501 Gallini, Nancy T. "Patent Policy and Costly Imitation." The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 23, no. 1, 1992, pp. 52–63. Gallini, Nancy T., and Brian D. Wright. "Technology Transfer Under Asymmetric Information." The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 21, no. 1, 1990, pp. 147–160. Berkowitz, Michael K., Gallini, Nancy T., Miller, Eric J., and Robert A. Wolfe. "Disaggregate Analysis of the Demand for Gasoline." Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 23, no. 2, 1990, pp. 253–275. Gallini, Nancy, and Larry Karp. "Sales and Consumer Lock-in." Economica, vol. 56, no. 223, 1989, pp. 279–294. Farrell, Joseph, and Nancy T. Gallini. "Second-Sourcing as a Commitment: Monopoly Incentives to Attract Competition." The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 103, no. 4, 1988, pp. 673–694. Berkowitz, Michael K., Gallini, Nancy T., Miller, Eric J., and Robert A. Wolfe. "Forecasting Vehicle Holdings and Usage with a Disaggregate Choice Model." Journal of Forecasting, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 249–269. Gallini, Nancy T., and Yehuda Kotowitz. "Optimal R and D Processes and Competition." Economica, vol. 52, no. 207, 1985, pp. 321–334. Gallini, Nancy T., and Ralph A. Winter. "Licensing in the Theory of Innovation." The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 16, no. 2, 1985, pp. 237–252. Gallini, Nancy T. "Deterrence by Market Sharing: A Strategic Incentive for Licensing." The American Economic Review, vol. 74, no. 5, 1984, pp. 931–941. Gallini, Nancy T., and Ralph A. Winter. "On Vertical Control in Monopolistic Competition." International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 1, no. 3, 1983, pp. 275–286. Gallini, Nancy, Tracy Lewis, and Roger Ware. "Strategic Timing and Pricing of a Substitute in a Cartelized Resource Market." The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Economique, vol. 16, no. 3, 1983, pp. 429–446. Gallini, Nancy T. "Demand for Gasoline in Canada." The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Economique, vol. 16, no. 2, 1983, pp. 299–324. Gallini, Nancy T. "Sequential Development of Correlated Projects: An Application to Coal Liquefaction." Energy Economics, vol. 5, no. 1, 1983, pp. 37–48. Carter, Colin, Nancy Gallini, and Andrew Schmitz. "Producer-Consumer Trade-Offs in Export Cartels: The Wheat Cartel Case." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 62, no. 4, 1980, pp. 812–818.

Book

Anderson, Robert D., Nancy T Gallini. Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 1998;2000.

Grants and awards