Papers

Industrial Organization

• Mergers, Entry, and Consumer Welfare, joint with Peter Caradonna and Nathan Miller (February 2024)

• Technology and Market Power: The United States Cement Industry, 1974-2019, joint with Nathan Miller, Matthew Osborne, and Gretchen Sileo (June 2023)

• Beyond "Horizontal" and "Vertical": The Welfare Effects of Complex Integration, joint with Margaret Loudermilk and Charles Taragin, Slides (December 2022)

• Win/Loss Data and Consumer Switching Costs: Measuring Diversion Ratios and the Impact of Mergers, Appendix, joint with Jeff Qiu and Masayuki Sawada (November 2022, forthcoming in the Journal of Industrial Economics)

• A Price Leadership Model for Merger Analysis, joint with Ryan Mansley, Nathan Miller, and Matthew Weinberg (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 89, July 2023)

• Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry, joint with Nathan Miller and Matthew Weinberg (American Economic Review, 111(10), October 2021, pp. 3123-3159)

• Simulating Mergers in a Vertical Supply Chain with Bargaining, joint with Charles Taragin (RAND Journal of Economics, 52(3), Fall 2021, pp. 596-632)

• Quantitative Methods for Evaluating the Unilateral Effects of Mergers, joint with Nathan Miller (Review of Industrial Organization, 58, February 2021, pp. 143-177)

• Upward Pricing Pressure as a Predictor of Merger Price Effects, joint with Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Conor Ryan (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 52, May 2017, pp. 216-247)

• Pass-Through in a Concentrated Industry: Empirical Evidence and Regulatory Implications, joint with Nathan Miller and Matthew Osborne, (RAND Journal of Economics, 48(1), Spring 2017, pp. 69-93)

• Pass-Through and the Prediction of Merger Price Effects, joint with Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Conor Ryan (Journal of Industrial Economics, 64(4), December 2016, pp. 683-709; previously circulated as "Approximating the Price Effects of Mergers: Numerical Evidence and an Empirical Application," EAG Discussion Paper 12-8)

• Bias in Reduced-Form Estimates of Pass-Through, joint with Alexander MacKay, Nathan Miller, and Marc Remer (Economics Letters, 123(2), May 2014, pp. 200-202)

• Using Cost Pass-Through to Calibrate Demand, joint with Nathan Miller and Marc Remer (Economics Letters, 118(3), March 2013, pp. 451-454)

• Calibrating the AIDS and Multinomial Logit Models with Observed Product Margins, joint with Charles Taragin (October 2012, EAG Discussion Paper 12-7)

International Trade

• Extended Gravity, Appendix, joint with Eduardo Morales and Andres Zahler (Review of Economic Studies, 86(6), November 2019, pp. 2668-2712, previously circulated as "Gravity and Extended Gravity: Estimating a Structural Model of Export Entry")

• Price, Quality, and Variety: Measuring the Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products, Appendix (AEJ: Applied Economics, 6(4), October 2014, pp. 66-89)

• Multi-Product Firm Behavior in International Markets: Evidence from Computer Printers, joint with Eduardo Morales (April 2010)