William T. Stanbury


B.Com. (Brit.Col.), M.A., Ph.D. (Calif.-Berkeley)
U.P.S. Foundation Professor of Regulation and Competition Policy


Office: 369 Henry Angus Building
Telephone: (604) 822-8525
Fax: (604) 822-8477
E-mail: stanbury@commerce.ubc.ca

Mailing Address:
The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
2053 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6T 1Z2

Research Interests

Courses

Selected Publications

Canadian Content Regulations: The Intrusive State at Work (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, August 1998).

"Expanding Responsibilities and Declining Resources: The Strategic Responses of the Competition Bureau, 1986-1996." Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 13(1&2), 1998, pp. 205-241.

"Accountability for Antitrust Enforcement: The Case of the Competition Bureau in Canada," Antitrust Report, July 1998, pp. 14-37. (with Margot Priest).

"Control and Accountability: Government Ownership, Economic Regulation and Competitive Market Forces", in John Allan (ed.) Public Enterprise in an Era of Change, (Regina; Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1998).

"The Use of Boycotts as a Tactic in Conflicts Over Forestry Issues," Commonwealth Forestry Review, Vol. 76(1) March 1997, p. 18-24. (with Ilan Vertinsky).

"Competition Policy and the Regulation of Telecommunications in Canada," in W.T. Stanbury (ed.) Perspectives on the New Economics of Telecommunications (Montreal: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1996). Ch. 7.

"Getting and Spending: The Effect of Federal Regulations on Financing Political Parties and Candidates in Canada! in H.G. Thorburn (ed.) Party Politics in Canada, 7th ed. (Scarborough: Prentice Hall, 1996), pp. 72-95.

Business-Government Relations in Canada: Influencing Public Policy (with Steven Globerman & T.A. Wilson), ed., The Future of Telecommunications Policy in Canada, Toronto: Institute for Policy Analyis Vancouver: Bureau of Applied Research, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, 1995.

"A Skeptics Guide to So-called Public Interest Groups", Canadian Public Administration 36(4), 1993, 580-605.

"An Assessment of the Merger Review Process Under the Competition Act", Canadian Business Law Journal 20, 1992, 422-463.

Money in Politics: Financing Federal Political Parties in Canada, Study for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991.

(with R.S. Khemani), eds., Historical Perspectives on Canadian Competition Policy, Halifax: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1991.

(with R.S. Khemani), eds., Canadian Competition Law and Policy at the Centenary, Halifax: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1991.

(with Ilan Vertinsky), Rent Regulation: Design Characteristics and Effects, Toronto: Ontario Commission of Inquiry into Residential Tenancies, Research Study No. 18, 1986.

(with P.K. Gorecki), The Objectives of Canadian Competition Policy, 1888-1983, Montreal: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1984, 225 pages.

(with G.B. Reschenthaler), "Oligopoly and Conscious Parallelism: Theory, Policy and the Canadian Cases", Osgoode Hall Law Journal 15 (3), December 1977, 617-700.

(with Jay H. Siegel), Success and Failure: Indians in Urban Society, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1975, 415 pages.

(with D.B. Fields), "Income Taxes and Incentives to Work: Some Additional Empirical Evidence", American Economic Review LXI, June 1971, 435-443.