Hugo M. Mialon

Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Working Papers

Economics and Sociology

• Do Pimples Pay? Acne, Human Capital, and the Labor Market, Journal of Human Capital 13(1), 2019, 39-55, with Erik Nesson

  • Cited in LSE Business Review, The Atlantic, Today Show 

• 'A Diamond is Forever' and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship Between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration, Economic Inquiry 53(4), 2015, 1919-1930, with Andrew Francis

  • Top 15 most downloaded paper of all time out of the over 1 million papers on the Social Science Research Network

  • Cited in National Geographic, Wall Street Journal I-II-III-IV, Today Show, New York Times I-II, CNN I-II, PBS NewsHour, NPR I-II, NBC News, CBS News, U.S. News & World Report, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today I-II-III, Huffington Post I-II, Fox Business, Psychology Today I-II-III-IV, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Marginal Revolution, AARP Magazine, Hemispheres (United's in-flight magazine), Sunday Times, Times of India

  • Podcast with Maxim Mukherjee (my colleague, Maria Arbatskaya's 16 year old son!)

• Go Figure: The Strategy of Nonliteral Speech, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 5(2), 2013, 186-212, with Sue Mialon

• The Economics of Faking Ecstasy, Economic Inquiry 50(1), 2012, 277-285

  • Cited in Slate Magazine, National Post, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider, The Guardian, Reporter Magazine

  • Video of presentation at the 2010 meeting of the American Economic Association

• What's In a Title?, 2010

Law and Economics

• International Trade Bans Improve the Endangerment Status of Plant Species, Coming Soon, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams

• International Trade and the Survival of Mammalian and Reptilian Species, Science Advances 8(1), January 7, 2022, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh3442, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams, 

  • Cited in Emory Press Release

• The Impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on Competitiveness, Bribery, and Investment, American Law and Economics Review 22(1), Spring 2020, 105–126, with Maria Arbatskaya

• The Voting Rights of Ex-Felons and Election Outcomes in the United States, International Review of Law and Economics 59, September 2019, 40-56, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams

  • Cited in Newsweek, Bloomberg

• The Business of American Democracy: Citizens United, Independent Spending, and Elections, Journal of Law and Economics 59(1), February 2016, 1-43, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams (Lead article)

  • Cited in Washington Post (Op-Ed), Washington Post (Report), and CBS News

• Leveling the Playing Field? The Role of Public Campaign Funding in Elections, American Law and Economics Review 17(2), Fall 2015, 361-408, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams (Lead article)

  • Winner, American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize of 2015

• On Hatred, American Law and Economics Review 15(1), 2013, 39-72, with Tilman Klumpp

• Torture in Counterterrorism: Agency Incentives and Slippery Slopes, Journal of Public Economics 96(1-2), 2012, 33-41, with Sue Mialon and Maxwell Stinchcombe

• The Economics of the Bill of Rights, American Law and Economics Review 10(1), 2008, 1-60, with Paul Rubin (Lead article)

• The Effects of the Fourth Amendment: An Economic Analysis, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 24(1), May 2008, 22-44, with Sue Mialon

• Judicial Hierarchies and the Rule-Individual Tradeoff, Supreme Court Economic Review 15(1), 2007, 3-20, with Paul Rubin and Joel Schrag (Lead article)

• An Economic Theory of the Fifth Amendment, RAND Journal of Economics 36(4), 2005, 833-848

• The Impact of Gun Laws: A Model of Crime and Self-Defense, Economics Letters 88(2), 2005, 170-175, with Tom Wiseman

Health Economics

• Heads Up: The Effects of Participation in High School Football and Soccer on Migraines and Depression in Adulthood, Coming soon, with Erik Nesson 

• The Association Between Mobile Phones and the Risk of Brain Cancer Mortality, Contemporary Economic Policy 38(2), April 2020, 258-269, with Erik Nesson)

• Crystal Clear? The Relationship Between Methamphetamine Use and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Health Economics 25(3), 2016, 292-313, with Erik Nesson and Michael Samuel

• In Sickness and in Health: Same-Sex Marriage Bans and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Social Science and Medicine 75(8), 2012, 1329-1341, with Andrew Francis and Handie Peng (Lead article)

• Tolerance and HIV, Journal of Health Economics 29(2), 2010, 250-267, with Andrew Francis

  • Cited in New York Times, Marginal Revolution, Examiner, and Science Daily

• The Optimal Penalty for Sexually Transmitting HIV, American Law and Economics Review 10(2), 2008, 388-423, with Andrew Francis

  • Winner, American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize of 2008

• Violence Against Women, Social Learning, and Deterrence, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 16(4), 2006, 367-382, with Sue Mialon

• Sinful Indulgences, Soft Substitutes, and Self-Control, Applied Economics Letters 12 (12), 2005, 719-722, with Sue Mialon (Lead article)

Industrial Organization

• Economic Profits and Market Power in the United States, Coming Soon, with Tilman Klumpp, Kevin Kreitzman, Michael Williams, and Wei Zhao

• Dynamic Multi-Activity Contests, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 114(2), 2012, 520-538, with Maria Arbatskaya

• Multi-Activity Contests, Economic Theory 43(1), 2010, 23-43, with Maria Arbatskaya

• Do Sunk Costs Matter?, Economic Inquiry 48(2), 2010, 323-336, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon

• Private v. Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Strategic Analysis, Journal of Public Economics 92(10), 2008, 1863-1875, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon (Lead article)

  • Cited in the impact study for the European Commission of proposed measures to move the European antitrust system closer to a U.S.-style system of mixed private-public enforcement, 2007

• Does Large Price Discrimination Imply Great Market Power?, Economics Letters 92(3), 2006, 360-367, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon

• Private Antitrust Enforcement: Procompetitive or Anticompetitive?, The Political Economy of Antitrust, Chapter 17, Elsevier, 2006, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon 

• What is a Barrier to Entry?, American Economic Review 94(2), 2004, P&P, 461-465, with Preston McAfee and Michael Williams

  • Cited by competition authorities from 7 different countries in a 21-country policy roundtable on barriers to entry organized by the competition committee of the OECD, 2005

• Barriers to Entry in Antitrust Analysis, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence: Droit, Economie, et Regulation 1(1), 2004, 155-157, with Preston McAfee (French version)

Teaching

• Emory Williams Lecture in the Liberal Arts, The Importance of Being Gary Becker: Economics is Everywhere, 2018