Hugo M. Mialon
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
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)
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