2. Publications
Innovation
Scientific Prizes and Post-Award Attention: Evidence from the Nobel Prize in Economics, with Zakaria Babutsidze. Working Paper, July 2020.
Markets for Information Goods: Scientific Journals
For Economists.....
"Cite Unseen: Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum" with Christopher Snyder. June 2021. Managerial and Decision Economics. [NBER Working Paper No. w28128, November 2020]
Does Data Disclosure Increase Citations? Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Leading Economics Journals, with Frank Mueller-Langer. Working Paper, January 2019
"Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals" with Christopher Snyder. June 2018, Journal of Industrial Economics. Supplementary Materials (online appendix) [NBER Working Paper No. w22220, May 2016]
Does Online Availability Increase Citations? Theory and Evidence from a Panel of Economics and Business Journals? with Chris Snyder. Data and Programs. Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 97:1, pp. 144-165, March 2015
"Identifying the Effect of Open Access on Citations Using a Panel of Science Journals" with Christopher Snyder. October 2014. Economic Inquiry.
"Online Access and the Scientific Journal Market: An Economists Perspective." March 2013. Report for The National Academy of Sciences' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.
"The Pricing of Academic Journals" with Aviv Nevo and Daniel Rubinfeld" Revised Working Paper, November 2008.
"Academic Journal Prices in a Digital Age: A Two-Sided Market Approach" with Christopher Snyder. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 2, 2007.
"Open Access and Academic Journal Quality" with Christopher Snyder. American Economic Review, Vol 95, No. 2, May 2005.
"The Demand for Economics Journals by Academic Libraries: An Econometric Analysis" with Aviv Nevo and Daniel Rubinfeld. American Economic Review, Vol 95, No. 2, May 2005.
"A Model of Academic Journal Quality with Applications to Open-Access Journals" with Christopher Snyder. Revised, Working Paper, March 2005
"Information Goods and Endogenous Pricing Strategies: the Case of Academic Journals." Economics Bulletin: Vol. 12, No. 10, 2004.
"Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach." The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 11, 2004.
"A Portfolio Model of Journal Pricing: Print v. Digital." Revised: June, 2003 working paper.
"Journal Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach." American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, March 2002.
"Academic Journal Pricing and Market Power: A Portfolio Approach." November, 2000. Presented at the 2000 AEA meetings in Boston, MA.
For a general audience.....
Imagining a Gold Open Access Future: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Funding Scenarios among Authors of Academic Scholarship, College & Research Libraries, September 2017, with Carol Tenopir, et. al.
Pay it Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions. University of California Libraries, July 2016, with MacKenzie Smith, et. al.
"Open Access versus Traditional Journal Pricing: Using a Simple 'Platform Market' Model to Understand Which Will Win (and Which Should)" with Christopher Snyder and Anna Fagin. Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 2013,Vol. 39,Issue 1.
A Portfolio Approach to Journal Pricing in Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet, 2008. University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, Jeffrey K. Mackie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee, editors.
"Merging West and Thomson: Pro- or Anti-Competitive?" Law Library Journal, Summer 2005, Vol. 97, No. 3.
"The best business model for scholarly journals: an economist's perspective" with Christopher Snyder. Nature, July 16, 2004.
"A Portfolio Approach to Print Legal Serials Pricing." July, 2002 (this paper was prepared for the American Association of Law Libraries' 2002 Annual Meetings). Paper Tables
"The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: Theory and Evidence," Serials Librarian, Vol. 40, No. 1/2, 2001, pp. 157-166.
"The Impact of Publishers Mergers on Journal Prices: An Update." ARL, the Newsletter of the Association of Research Libraries, December, 1999.
"The Impact of Publishers Mergers on Journal Prices: An Update." (published version) Against the Grain, September, 1999.
"The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: A Preliminary Report." ARL, the Newsletter of the Association of Research Libraries. October, 1998.
Other Research:
Electricity
"Dynamic Behavior of Regulated Firms: Evidence from Nuclear Utilities," with James Hewlett. 1996, EAG Working Paper 96-3. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1995 AEA Meetings.
"Principals, Agents, and the Learning Curve: the Case of Steam-Electric Power Plant Construction." Journal of Industrial Economics , December 1996. Supplementary materials (originally published on the JIE website).
"The Effects of Industrial Structure on Learning by Doing in Nuclear Power Plant Operation," with Richard K. Lester. Rand Journal of Economics , Vol. 24, no. 3, Autumn 1993.
Aftermarkets
"Aftermarket Exclusion." mimeo, November, 1997.
"Analyzing Welfare in Related Markets: Durable Goods and Aftermarkets." September, 1997, EAG Working Paper 97-4. This paper was presented at the 1997 EARIE Conference in Leuven, Belgium.
Auctions, IO economists & Environmental Data
Non-Parametric Structural Analysis of Asymmetric Auctions and Implications for Merger Analysis: the case of NJ School Bus Route Auctions, with Benjamin Stearns. December 2010.
"Do American and European Industrial Organization Economists Differ?" with Karl Aiginger, Dennis C. Mueller and Christoph Weiss. Review of Industrial Organization. December 2001, Volume 19, Number 4
"Resolving Conflicts Arising from the Privatization of Environmental Data." Co-author with members of the National Research Council's Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, National Academy Press , Washington, DC 2001.