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Paper Reviews

Find below some quick thoughts on an assortment of papers I've found relevant throughout my research. They are categorized by primary research topic and personal value-added. For archiving purposes. Updated regularly. 

Chronically incomplete, as some papers have been reviewed directly on paper and are not included here. Please contact afonso.rodrigues@economics.ox.ac.uk for specific requests.

Consumer inattention

1. Eliaz and Spielger (REStud, 2011) "Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing" - paper

2. Masatlioglu, Nakajima, and Ozbay (AER, 2012) "Revealed Attention" - paper

3. Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer (JPE, 2013) "Salience and Consumer Choice" - paper

4. Koszegi and Szeidl (QJE, 2013) "Model of Focusing in Economic Choice" - paper

5. Manzini and Mariotti (Econometrica, 2014) "Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets" - paper

6. Gabaix (QJE, 2014) "A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality" - paper

7. Matejka and McKay (AER, 2015) "Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model" - paper

8. Nocke and Rey (WP, 2023) "Consumer Search and Choice Overload" - paper

Unobserved choice set heterogeneity

1. Manski (Theory and Decision, 1977) "The Structure of Random Utility Models" - paper

2. Goeree (Econometrica, 2008) "Limited Information and Advertising in the US Personal Computing Industry" - paper

3. Frejinger, Bierlaire, and Ben-Akiva (Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2009) "Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modelling - paper

4. De los Santos, Hortacsu, and Wildenbeest (AER, 2012) "Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior" - paper

5. Conlon and Mortimer (AER: Microeconomics, 2013) "Demand Estimation under Incomplete Product Availability" - paper

6. Honka (RAND, 2014) "Quantifying search and switching costs in the US auto insurance industry" - paper

7. Hickman and Mortimer (Handbook on the Economics of Retailing and Distribution , Ch.13, 2016) "Demand estimation with availability variation" - paper

8. Honka, Hortacsu, and Wildenbeest (Handbook for the Economics of Marketing, Ch. 4, 2019) "Empirical search and consideration sets" - paper

9. Abaluck and Adams-Prassl (QJE, 2021) "What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses" - paper, notes

10. Ciliberto, Murry, and Tamer (JPE, 2021) "Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets" - paper

11. Barseghyan, Coughlin, Molinari, and Teitelbaum (Econometrica, 2021) "Heterogenous Choice Sets and Preferences" - paper

12. Crawford, Griffith, and Iaria (Journal of Econometrics, 2021) "A Survey of Preference Estimation With Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity" - paper, notes

13. Li, Mazur, Park, Roberts, Sweeting, and Zhang (RAND, forthcoming) "Endogenous and Selective Service Choices After Airline Mergers" - paper (NBER)

Shopping-basket models and adjacents

Economics:

1. Chevalier, Kashyap, and Rossi (AER, 2003) "Why Don't Prices Rise during Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data" - paper

2. Smith (REStud, 2004) "Supermarket Choice and Supermarket Competition in Market Equilibrium" - paper

3. Smith and Hay (Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005) "Streets, Malls, and Supermarkets" - paper, notes

4. Smith and Thomassen (IJIO, 2012) "Multicategory Demand and Supermarket Pricing" - paper, notes

5. Bel, Fok, and Paap (Econometric Reviews, 2018) "Parameter estimation in multivariate logit models with many binary choices" - paper

6. Iria and Wang (WP 2022a) "Inferring Complementarity from Correlations rather than Structural Estimation" - paper, notes

7. Iaria and Wang (WP, 2022b) "Identification and Estimation of Demand for Bundles" - paper

Marketing and Business: 

1. Kumar and Leone (Journal of Marketing Research, 1988) "Measuring the Effect of Retail Store Promotions on Brand and Store Substitution" - paper

2. Bucklin and Lattin (Journal of Retailing, 1992) "A model of product category competition among grocery retailers" - paper

3. Lal and Matutes (Journal of Business, 1994) "Retail Pricing and Advertising Strategies" - paper

4. Bell and Lattin (Marketing Science, 1998) "Shopping Behavior and Consumer Preference for Store Price Format" - paper

5. Bell, Ho, and Tang (Journal of Marketing Research, 1998) "Determining Where to Shop: Fixed and Variable Costs of Shopping" - paper

6. Manchanda, Ansari, and Gupta (QJE, 1999) "The "Shopping Basket": A Model for Multicategory Purchase Incidence Decisions" - paper, notes

7. Russell and Petersen (Journal of Retailing, 2000) "Analysis of cross category dependence in market basket selection" - paper, notes

8. Rhee and Bell (Journal of Retailing, 2002) "The inter-store mobility of supermarket shoppers" - paper

9. Fox, Montgomery, and Lodish (Journal of Business, 2004) "Consumer Shopping and Spending Across Retail Formats" - paper

10. Kwak, Duvvuri, and Russell (Journal of Retailing, 2005) "An Analysis of Assortment Choice in Grocery Retailing" - paper, notes

11. Niraj, Padmanabhan, and Seetharaman (Marketing Science, 2008) "A Cross-Category Model of Households' Incidence and Quantity Decisions " - paper

12. Richards, Hamilton, and Yonezawa (Journal of Retailing, 2018) "Retail Market Power in a Shopping Basket Model of Supermarket Competition" - paper, notes

Models of multi-store, multi-category purchase

1. Haneman (Econometrica, 1984) "Discrete-Contiuous Models of Consumer Demand" - paper

2. Klemperer (AER, 1992) "Equilibrium Product Lines: Competing Head-to-Head May be Less Competitive" - paper

3. Hausman, Leonard, and Zona (Annals of Economics and Statistics, 1994) "Competitive Analysis with Differenciated Products" - paper

4. Hendel (REStud, 1999) "Estimating Multiple-Discrete Choice Models" - paper

5. Nalebuff (Incentives, Organization, and Public Economics, Ch. 17, 2000) "Competing Against Bundles" - paper, notes

6. Nevo (Econometrica, 2001) "Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry" - paper, notes

7. Dubé (Marketing Science, 2004) "Multiple Discreteness and Product Differentiation: Demand for Carbonated Soft Drinks"  - paper, notes

8. Song and Chintagunta (Journal of Marketing Research, 2007) "A Discrete–Continuous Model for Multicategory Purchase Behavior of Households" - paper, notes

9. Gentzkow (AER, 2007) "Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarity: Online Newspapers" - paper, notes

10. Armstrong and Vickers (REStud, 2010) "Competitive Non-linear Pricing and Bundling" - paper

11. Chen and Rey (AER, 2012) "Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice" - paper, notes

12. Thomassen, Smith, Seiler, and Schiraldi (AER, 2017) "Multi-category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing" - paper, notes

13. Zhou (Econometrica, 2017) "Competitive Bundling" - paper, notes

14. DellaVigna and Gentzkow (QJE, 2019) "Uniform Pricing in US Retail Chains" - paper

15. Smith, Rossi, and Allenby (Marketing Science, 2019) "Inference for Product Competition and Separable Demand" - paper

16. Florez-Acosta and Herrera-Araujo (IJIO, 2020) "Multiproduct Retailing and Consumer Shopping Behaviour: The Role of Shopping Costs" - paper

Network analysis applied to IO

1. Ballester, Calvo-Armengol, and Zenou (Econometrica, 2006) "Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player" - paper, notes

2. Einav and Levin (AER, 2010) "Empirical Industrial Organisation: A Progress Report" - paper

3. Acemoglu, Carvalho, Ozdaglar, and Tahbaz-Salehi (Econometrica, 2012) "The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations"- paper

4. Carvalho (JEP, 2014) "From Micro to Macro via Production Networks" - paper

5. Acemoglu, Ozdaglar, and Tahbaz-Salehi (AER, 2017) "Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks" - paper

6. Ushchev and Zenou (Games and Economic Behaviour, 2018) "Price Competition in Product Variety Networks" -  paper, notes

7. Carvalho and Tahbaz-Salehi (Annual Review of Economics, 2019) "Production Networks: A primer" - paper

8. Lewbel and Nesheim (WP, 2019) "Sparse demand systems: corners and complements" - paper, notes

9. Baqaee and Farhi (QJE, 2020) "Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium" - paper, notes

10. Carvalho, Nirei, Saito, and Tahbaz-Salehi (QJE, 2021) "Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake" - paper

11. Pellegrino (AER R&R, 2023) "Product Differentiation and Oligopoly - a Network Approach" - paper, notes

12. Brynjolfsson, Chen, and Gao (NBER, 2022) “Gains from Product Variety: Evidence from a Large Digital Platform” - paper, notes

13. Ederer and Pellegrino (REStud R&R, 2023), "A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry" - paper, notes

Consumer behaviour and demand estimation

1. Lancaster (JPE, 1966) "A New Approach to Consumer Theory" - paper

2. Rosen (JPE, 1974) "Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets" - paper

3. Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (Econometrica, 1995) "Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium" - paper

4. Dubé (Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Ch. 1, 2019)  "Microeconometric Models of Consumer Demand" - paper

5. McCluskey and Winfree (A Modern Guide to Food Economics, Ch. 3, 2022) "Product Differentiation in Food" - paper

6. Gandhi and Nevo (Handbook of Industrial Organisation, Ch. 2, 2021) "Empirical models of demand and supply in differentiated products industries" - paper

7. Biondi, Cappaci, and Mazzocchi  (A Modern Guide to Food Economics, Ch. 3, 2022) "Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the scanner data age" - paper

8. Petrin, Ponder, and Seo (NBER, 2022) "Identification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models when Observed and Unobserved Characteristics are Correlated" - paper, review

9. Tran and Mai (WP arXiv, 2023) "Network-based Representations and Dynamic Discrete Choice Models for Multiple Discrete Choice Analysis " - paper, review

The "this could be an IO network model" section

1. Chen, Dou, Guo, and Ji (NBER, 2023) “Feedback and Contagion Through Distressed Competition” - paper, review

2. De Paula, Rasul, and Souza (ArXiv, 2023) “Identifying Network Ties from Panel Data: Theory and an Application to Tax Competition” - paper, review