Research
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Published and Forthcoming Papers
- Is Hannukah Responsive to Christmas?, with Ran Abramitzky and Liran Einav,Economic Journal, 120(545), 612-630, June 2010
Featured in Slate Magazine (December 19, 2008), Financial Times (December 17, 2010), The Economist (December 17, 2011), The Washington Post (December 23, 2011)
Working Papers
- The Effects of Usury Laws: Evidence from the Online Loan Market , revised and resubmitted, Review of Economics and Statistics [current draft: May 2011] Featured in Credit Slips (June 8, 2010)
- Price Control in Franchised Chains: The Case of Mcdonald's Dollar Menu, with Itai Ater [current draft: March 2012]
- Transactions Costs and Social Distance in Philanthropy: Evidence from a Field Experiment, with Jonathan Meer [current draft: July 2011]