Research
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
The Impact of Advertising Regulation on Industry: The Cigarette Advertising Ban of 1971, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2013, pp. 215–248.
Group Payoffs As Public Signals, with Christos Ioannou and Aldo Rustichini, (Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48: 89-105).
A Test of Stability in a Linear Altruism Model, Economic Letters, 2013, 121(1): 85-89, with Christos Ioannou and Aldo Rustichini.
Stand by Me, Help, Heterogeneity, and Commitment in Experimental Coordination Games, with Jordi Brandts, David Cooper and Enrique Fatas, (Management Science, 2016, 62(10): 2916-2936).
The Importance of Legal Form of Organization on Small Corporation External Financing, with Daphne Chen, (Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54(3), 1607-1620).
Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment, with Daphne Chen and Don Schlagenhauf, (AEJ Macroeconomics, 2018, 10(4), 270-304) (Download Appendix)
Endogenous Incentive Contracts and Efficient Coordination, with David Cooper and Christos Ioannou, (Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 112, 78-97). (Download Appendix; Companion Paper)
Advertising, Industry Innovation, and Entry Deterrence, (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, 65, 30-50). (Download Appendix)
Movie Industry Demand and Theater Accessibility, with Tommy Leung and Jia Yuan. (Review of Industrial Organization, 2020, 56, 489-513).
The Kansas Tax Experiment: A Matter of the Legal Form of Organization, with Don Schlagenhauf. (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 133, 104271) (Download Appendix)
Globalization and the Rise of Action Movies in Hollywood, with Tommy Leung. (Journal of Cultural Economics, 2023, Mar 1, 1-39) (Download Appendix)
Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models, with David Cooper, Enrique Fatas, and Antonio J. Morales. (Forthcoming, AEJ Micro-economics) (Download Appendix)
WORKING PAPERS
Coordination with Endogenous Contracts: A Structural Learning Model Approach, with David Cooper and Christos Ioannou.
Cartels Destroy Productivity: Evidence from the New Deal Sugar Manufacturing Cartel, with Benjamin Bridgman and James Schmitz. (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report #519)
The Economic Performance of Cartels: Evidence From the New-Deal US Sugar Manufacturing Cartel, 1934-1974, with Benjamin Bridgman and James Schmitz. (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report #437).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Paying for Sugar and Getting Waste: Member Side-payments in the New Deal Sugar Cartel, with Benjamin Bridgman and James Schmitz.
Why did the Puerto Rico Sugar Industry Collapse in the 1960s, with Benjamin Bridgman, Arilton Teixeira, and James Schmitz.
How the U.S. Dental Monopoly Created the American Oral-Health Crisis, with James Schmitz.