Jim Adams studies industrial organization (in particular, the sources and uses of market power) and the European economy (in particular, European economic integration). He is currently working on “New Prescriptions for the Pharmaceutical Industry.”

Adams, William James, "Markets: Beer in Germany and the United States," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1), Winter 2006, 189-205.

Adams, William James, “The Political Economy of Agriculture in France’s Fifth Republic,” Explorations in Economic History, 36(1), January 1999,1-29.

Adams, William James, and David Encaoua, “Distorting the Direction of Technological Change,” European Economic Review, 38(3-4), April 1994, 663-673.

Adams, William James, Restructuring the French Economy: Government and the Rise of Market Competition since World War II, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1989.

Adams, William James, and David E. M. Sappington, “Profiting from Countervailing Power: An Effect of Government Control,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 6(3), September 1988, 323-333.

Adams, William James, and Janet L. Yellen, “What Makes Advertising Profitable?,” Economic Journal, 87(347), September 1977, 427-449.

Adams, William James, and Janet L. Yellen, “Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 90(3), August 1976, 475-498.