Research

Working papers

How Nudges Create Habits: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
with Lorenz Goette and Leslie A. Martin et al.
Nov 2024, R&R at Journal of the European Economic Association.

Price Coordination with Asymmetric Information Sharing: Theory and Evidence
with Nicolas de Roos, Matthew S. Lewis, Leslie M. Marx, and Xiaosong Wu
Jul 2025, R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics.

Information, Incentives, and Goal-Setting: A Field Experiment in Water Usage
with Anthony van den Berg, Lorenz Goette, and Alana Jones
Aug 2025, submitted.

Behavior, Automation, and the Energy Transition
with Leslie A. Martin
Sep 2025, semi-plenary lecture, Econometric Society World Congress.

Publications

Asymmetric Information Sharing in Oligopoly: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline
with Nicolas de Roos, Matthew S. Lewis, Leslie M. Marx, and Xiaosong Wu
Journal of Political Economy, 133(5), 2031-2088, 2025 (lead article). appendix

The Role of Platforms for Facilitating Anticompetitive Communication
with Nicolas de Roos, A. Rachel Grinberg, and Leslie M. Marx
Cartels Diagnosed: New Insight on Collusion (Cambridge University Press), 2024.

Dollars and Sense: Exposing Unfair Pricing
Economic Papers, 2024. Giblin Lecture

Price Discrimination by Negotiation: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity
with Leslie A. Martin and Jia Sheen Nah
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(4), 2499-2537, 2022. appendix

Instrument-Free Identification and Estimation of Differentiated Products Models Using Cost Data
with Susumu Imai, Neelam Jain, and Vasilis Sarafidis
Journal of Econometrics, 228(2), 278-301, 2022. 

Startup Search Costs
with Nicolas de Roos
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(2), 81-112, 2022. appendix 

Price Effects of Calling Out Market Power: A Study of the COVID-19 Oil Price Shock
with Aaron Barkley and Xiaosong Wu
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy,  31(4), 923-941, 2022. appendix

Consumer Search and Income Inequality
with Leslie A. Martin
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 79, 102716, 2021. 

An Experimental Study of Monthly Electricity Demand (In)elasticity
with Andrea La Nauze and Leslie A. Martin
The Energy Journal, 42(2), 205-222, 2021. appendix

Supplying Slot Machines to the Poor
with Melisa Bubonya
Southern Economic Journal, 83(3), 1081-1109, 2020. appendix

Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline
with Nicolas de Roos
American Economic Review, 109(2), 591-619, 2019. appendix

Gasoline Pricing in the Country and the City
Review of Industrial Organization, 55(2), 209-235, 2019. appendix

Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Informedness and the Impact of Information Programs
with Andrea La Nauze and Leslie A. Martin
Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(3), 510-527, 2018. appendix

Australia has the World's Best Petrol Price Data: FuelWatch and FuelCheck
with Jia Sheen Nah and Peng Xue
Australian Economic Review, 51(4), 564-777, 2018. 

Consumer Search in Retail Gasoline Markets
with Nicolas de Roos
Journal of Industrial Economics, 65(1), 183-193, 2017. 

Testing Models of Differentiated Product Markets: Consolidation in the Cable TV Industry
International Economic Review, 56(3), 805-850, 2015. appendix

How do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Cycles?
with Gordon Leslie and Roger Ware
The Energy Journal, 36(1), 115-147, 2015.  appendix

Fuelling Australia: Structural Changes and New Policy Challenges in the Petrol Industry
Australian Economic Review, 47(4), 523-539, 2014. 

Petrol Price Cycles
Australian Economic Review, 45(4), 497-506, 2012. 

Canadian City Housing Prices and Urban Market Segmentation
with Jason Allen, Robert Amano, and Allan W. Gregory
Canadian Journal of Economics, 42(2), 1132-1149, 2009. appendix