I am a Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of Melbourne studying industrial organization and public economics. I am also an affiliate at the Centre for Market Design.
My research focuses on empirical assessments of market design. I use both structural models and reduced-form causal inference techniques to quantify how the design of pricing mechanisms (or the absence of such mechanisms) may distort markets and test policy implementations or market re-designs aimed at improving outcomes.
Contact:
Faculty of Business and Economics Building, Lvl 4
University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC Australia
Email: aaron[dot]barkley[at]unimelb[dot]edu[dot]au
Phone: +61 3 8344 0589
Research
Working Papers:
Haggle or Hammer? Dual-Mechanism Housing Search with David Genesove and James Hansen. [CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19262]
Published and accepted papers:
The Human Cost of Collusion: Health Effects of a Mexican Insulin Cartel. Journal of the European Economic Association. 21.5(2023): 1865-1904.
Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for best paper in antitrust economics at the 2021 International Industrial Organization Conference.
Jerry S. Cohen Award for Best Antitrust Article on Cartels, 2023.
The Price Effects of Calling Out Market Power: A Study of the COVID-19 Oil Price Shock with David P. Byrne and Xiaosong Wu. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 31.4(2022): 923-941.
Congestion and Consolidation: An Empirical Study of a Barge Shipping Merger with Kael Mcleod. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 93 (2022): (103725). [Accepted version]
Cost and Efficiency in Government Outsourcing: Evidence from the Dredging Industry American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13.4 (2021): 514-547. [Accepted version] [Supplementary appendix]
Bidding Frictions in Ascending Auctions with Joachim Groeger and Robert A. Miller. Journal of Econometrics, 223.2 (2021): 376-400
Work In Progress:
Barging In: Strategic Queueing in the US Inland Waterways Freight Market