Working Papers
14. Pricing Dynamics After a Blocked Merger: A Study of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines , 2024 with Minhae Kim and Junyeol Ryu (R & R at RIO)
13. Network Structures and Resilience of Supply: Insights from the U.S. Airline Industry, 2021 with Qi Ge, Donggeun Kim, and Jangsu Yoon (under review)
12. Product Market Effects of Mergers and Unionization: Roll Together or Clash?, 2020 with Qi Ge, Donggeun Kim, and Jangsu Yoon (R & R at IJIO)
11. Tax Reform and Product Quality Improvement, 2021 with Junyeol Ryu, Georgia Kosmopoulou, and Jangsu Yoon (under review)
10. Backward Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets, 2019 with Richard Gretz and Suman Basuroy (Reject & Resubmit at IER)
9. Strategic Responses to Used Goods Markets: Airbus and Boeing, (Online appendix), 2024 with Jangsu Yoon (R & R at AEJ: Microeconomics)
8. From Turbulence to Housing Market, 2020 with Qi Ge, Dongeun Kim, and Minhae Kim (R & R at Marketing Letters)
7. Product Market Responses to Reputational Shocks and Public Relations Crises, 2025 with Qi Ge and Minhae Kim
6. Does Flu Vaccination Affect Wages? State-Level Evidence from the US, 2021 with Junying Zhao, Ahmed Chaudry, Firat Demir and Pallab Ghosh (R & R at Applied Economics)
5. Covid-19 Vaccines and Demand Recovery: Evidence of Racial Disparity on AirBnB, 2023 with Suman Basuroy, Janhavi Venkatesh, and Yongseok Kim (under review)
4. Timing Motherhood: A Field Experiment on Job Prospects , 2022 with Jiawei Lyu, Daniel Nedelescu, and Leilei Shen
3. When Major Airlines Share a Regional Partner: Impact on Price Dispersion, 2024 with Minhae Kim and Yeonjoon Lee (under revision for Advances in Airline Economics)
2. Artificial Intelligence and Market Power, 2025 with Qi Ge and Minhae Kim
1. The Dual Effects of Mergers on Peripheral Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry, 2021 with Joe Mazur, Yongjoon Park, and Jangsu Yoon
Publications
22. Mass shooting, Gender, and Housing Price Disparities, with Suman Basuroy, Junyeol Ryu and Yongseok Kim, Forthcoming at Marketing Letters
21. Algorithmic Collusion in the Skies: The Role of AI in Shaping Airline Competition, with Qi Ge and Nick G. Rupp, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle, Volume 1, April 2025
20. What Spurs Investment in the Vaccine Industry? Interplay of Competition and Subsidies, with Qi Ge, Ahmed Fatmaoui, Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh, and Junying Zhao, Forthcoming at Economics of Innovation and New Technology
19. Fuel Hedging and Behavior Bias: An Empirical Look at the U.S. Airline Industry, with Long Shi and Qihong Liu, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume33, Issue4, Winter 2024, Pages 801-824
18. When do Firms Offer Higher Product Quality? Evidence from the Allocation of Inflight Amenities, with Qihong Liu and Nicholas Rupp, Review of Industrial Organization, 62, 149-177 (2023)
17. One for All or All for One: Does the Category Captain Play Favorites?, with Leilei Shen, Suman Basuroy and Sri Beldona, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol 56, Issue 1, February 2023, 87-113
16. Does Competition Increase or Decrease Price Dispersion? Insights from One-way vs. Round-Trip Airfares, with Leilei Shen and Qi Ge, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol 85, Issue 2, April 2023, 435-455
15. Gender Gap in Tenure & Promotion: Evidence from the Economics Ph.D. Class of 2008, 2016 with Susan Chen and Qihong Liu, Southern Economic Journal, Vol 88, Issue 4, April 2022, 1277-1312 (Media Coverage: INSIDE HIGHER ED)
14. Carry-On Baggage Fee, Airline Pricing and Subcontracting, with Lei He and Qihong Liu, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2022;31:115-145
13. Relational Contracting in the Airline Industry, with Ricard Gil and Giorgio Zanarone, Management Science, Vol 68, Issue 2, February 2022, 809-1589
12. Does Competition Increase Quality? Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry, with Ricard Gil, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol 77, June 2021, 102742. 2021 IJIO Best Empirical Paper Award
11. Tacit Collusion and Price Dispersion in the Presence of Southwest Airline, with Donggeun Kim and Kerry Tan, Southern Economic Journal, Vol 88, Issue 1, July 2021, 3-32
10. Mergers and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S. Airline Industry, with Qi Ge and Donggeun Kim, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol 39, Issue 4, October 2021, 849-866
9. Returns to Job Satisfaction in the Presence of Horizontal Mismatch, with Qi Ge and Leilei Shen and Eunjung Jordan, Applied Economics, 2020, 52:27, 2913-2930
8. Help or Hindrance? U.S. Aid on Growth , with Leilei Shen, Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27:21, 1746-1753
7. Relational Contracting in Developed Economies:Lessons from Slot Exchanges in the US Airline Industry, with Ricard Gil and Giorgio Zanarone, Japanese Economic Review, Vol.70, Issue 3 (Sep. 2019)
6. I am Jane. Do I Pay More in the Housing Market?, 2018 with Sean Oconnor and Brent Norwood and Leilei Shen, Economics Bulletin, Vol.39 No.2 p.A151 (2019)
5. Does Job Satisfaction Increase Sales and Customer Satisfaction? Evidence from Retail Banking in South Korea, with Ricard Gil and Inhyouk Koo, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol.17, Issue 3 (Jul 2017)
Publications - Health Policy
4. Effects of CDC Recommendation on HPV Vaccine Uptake 2010 - 2015, with Pallab Ghosh, Ahmed Chaudhuri, Campbell JE, Firat Demir, Kyle Smith, and Junying Zhao, Frontiers in Public Health, 17 December 2024
3. A Comparative Study of COVID-19 Emergency Funds Allocated to the Health Sector: US, UK, and Canada, with Junying Zhao, Gabrielle Westbrook and Dale Bratzler, Health Policy 126(6): 493-503 (2022)
2. Reforming the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program for Covid-19 and Beyond: An Economic Perspective, with Junying Zhao, Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh, Austin Earley, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 9(1): 1-31 (2022)
Publications - in Korean
1. The Impact of IT-Industry Development on the Korean Economy, with Youngsub Chun, Economics Journal (in Korean), (2005)
Recent Drafts available upon request