RESEARCH INTERVIEWS

Do People Care Where Their Data Are Stored?  Tech Refactored, Nebraska Governance and Technology Center, November, 2022.

Two Think Minimum Podcast with Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh, Technology Policy Institute, February, 2021.

Scientific Sense Podcast with Gill Eapen, October, 2020.

BOOKS

Conglomerates and Ecosystems in the Digital Era, co-editor with Justin (Gus) Hurwitz and Geoffrey A. Manne, Cambridge University Press, 2025 (expected). 

Managerial Economics and Business Strategy, with Michael R. Baye, McGraw-Hill Education, 2025 (expected). (10th edition 2022, 9th edition 2017, 8th edition 2014)

The Metaverse: What Everyone Needs to Know, with Scott J. Shackelford, Michael Mattioli, and Joao Marinotti, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Predictive Analytics for Business Strategy: Reasoning from Data to Actionable Knowledge, McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. 

WORKING PAPERS                 

1. Does Market Power Impact Price Partitioning? Evidence From Cleaning Fees And Rental Rates On Airbnb, with Daniel Simon, revision requested at the Journal of Industrial Economics, 2023.

2. Do People Around the World Care Whether Their Data Are Stored Locally? with Scott Wallsten, under review, 2023.

3. Competitive Effects of Joint Ventures in the U.S. International Airline Market, with Hong Lee, Jaehak Lee, and Daniel Simon, 2024. 

4. Persistence of Online Preferences Over Time and Across Formats, with Shane Greenstein, 2024.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED ACADEMIC JOURNALS

5. The Business Revolution: Economy-Wide Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms, with Hanna Halaburda, D. Daniel Sokol, and Feng Zhu, forthcoming in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Special Issue on Digital Transformation and the Business Revolution, 2024.

6. Optimal Promises: Application of a General Framework to Airline Schedule Times, with Daniel Simon, forthcoming in the Journal of Air Transport Management.

7. The Effect of International Travel on the Spread of Covid-19 in the U.S., with Daniel Simon, forthcoming in the Southern Economic Journal.

8. The Effect of Domestic Travel on the Spread of Covid-19 in the U.S., with Daniel Simon, forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.

9. How Much is Privacy Worth Around the World and Across Platforms?, with Scott Wallsten, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 31, pp. 841-861, 2022.

10. Mobile Internet Usage and Usage Based Pricing, with Shane Greenstein, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 30, 4, pp. 760-783, 2021.

11. Economics at the FCC: 2019-2020, with Allison Baker, Patrick Brogan, Octavian Carare, Nicholas Copeland, Patrick DeGraba, Steven Kauffman, Paul LaFontaine, Catherine Matraves, Sean Sullivan, Patrick Sun, and Emily Talaga, Review of Industrial Organization, 57, pp. 827-858, 2020.

12. The Persistence of Broadband User Behavior: Implications for Universal Service and Competition Policy, with Andre Boik and Shane Greenstein, Telecommunications Policy, 43, 8, 2019. Extended working version titled: Empirical Economics of Online Attention.

13. A Paradigm for Assessing the Scope and Performance of Predictive Analytics, Information Economics and Policy, 47, pp. 7-13, 2019.

14. Distinguishing Bandwidth and Latency in Households’ Willingness-to-Pay for Broadband Internet Speed, with Yu-Hsin Liu and Scott Wallsten (lead article), Information Economics and Policy, 45, pp. 1-15, 2018.

15. Does Competition Lead to Agglomeration or Dispersion in EMR Vendor Decisions?, with Seth Freedman and Haizhen Lin, Review of Industrial Organization, 53, 1, 57-79, 2018.

16. Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms, with Seth Freedman and Haizhen Lin, American Journal of Health Economics, 4, 1, 51-79, 2018.

17. Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior, with Shane Greenstein, (lead article) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 26, 2, 293-317, 2017.

18. The Impact of Mergers on Quality Provision: Evidence from the Airline Industry, with Daniel Simon, Journal of Industrial Economics, 65, 2, 336-362, 2017.

19. The Effect of Competition on Toxic Pollution Releases, with Daniel Simon, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 79, 40-54, 2016.

20. Determinants of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase in Response to the Partnership Program, with Haizhen Lin, Health Services Research, 51, 2, 687-703, 2016.

21. Do Incumbents Improve Service Quality in Response to Entry:  Evidence from Airlines’ On-Time Performance, with Daniel Simon, Management Science, 61, 2, 372-390, 2015.

22. Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?, with Shane Greenstein, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 23, 4, 839-875, 2014.

23. Indirect Network Effects and the Quality Dimension: A Look at the Gaming Industry, with Jin-Hyuk Kim and Calvin Qui, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 37, 6, 99-108, 2014.

24. Is Dual Agency in Real Estate a Cause for Concern?, with Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel Simon, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 48, 1, pp. 164-195, 2014.

25. The Impact of the Partnership Long-term Care Insurance Program on Private Coverage, with Haizhen Lin, Journal of Health Economics, 32, 6, pp. 1205-1213, 2013.

26. Racial Bias in Expert Quality Assessment: A Study of Newspaper Movie Reviews, with Lona Fowdur and Vrinda Kadiyali, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 84, 1, pp. 292-307, 2012.

27. The Welfare Impact of Reducing Choice in Medicare Part D: A Comparison of Two Regulation Strategies, with Claudio Lucarelli and Kosali Simon, International Economic Review, 53, 4, pp. 1155-1177, 2012.

28. Relating Inertia and Experience in Technology Markets: An Analysis of Households’ Personal Computer Choices, Applied Economics, 43, 29, pp. 4501-4514, 2011.

29. Are Risk Preferences Stable across Contexts?  Evidence from Insurance Data, with Levon Barseghyan and Joshua Teitelbaum, American Economic Review, 101, 2, pp. 591-631, 2011.

30. Is Time Inconsistency Primarily a Male Problem?, with Dan Shawhan, (lead article) Applied Economics Letters, 18, 6, pp. 501-504, 2011.

31. Has the Internet Accelerated the Diffusion of New Products? with Daniel Simon, Research Policy, 38, 8, pp. 1269-1277, 2009.

32. How Do Households Choose Quality and Time to Replacement for a Rapidly Improving Durable Good?, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27, 2, pp. 302-311, 2009.

33. Multi-market Contact and On-Time Performance in the US Airline Industry, with Daniel Simon, Academy of Management Journal, 52, 2, pp. 336-354, 2009.

34. Repeat Purchase amid Rapid Quality Improvement: Structural Estimation of the Demand for Personal Computers, (lead article) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 17, 1, pp. 1-33, 2008

35. Internet Adoption and Usage Patterns are Different: Implications for the Digital Divide, with Avi Goldfarb, (lead article) Information Economics and Policy, 20, 1, pp. 2-15, 2008.

36. The Beginning of Online/Retail Competition and Its Origins: An Application to Personal Computers, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25, 1, pp. 139-156, 2007.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC COMMENTARY

37. Coordinated Effects (Mergers), Global Dictionary of Competition Law, eds. Kovacic, W., Whish, R., Healey, D., hardcopy forthcoming.

38. Information, with Michael R. Baye, Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Competition and Regulation, forthcoming.

39. Privacy Preferences Differ by Gender and Age: But Not by Income, with Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute, November, 2023.

40. Conflict of Interest and Platforms, Public comment on DOJ and FTC proposed merger guidelines, with Avigail Kifer, September, 2023.

41. Comment on the January 2022 DOJ and FTC RFI on Merger Enforcement: Issues Related to Digital Markets, with Leslie Chiou, Nathanial Hipsman, and Sachin Sanchetti, March, 2022.

42. People Lie When Answering Polls. Here's How to Fix It, with Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute Blog, January, 2021.

43. Travelers Coming from Italy May Have Driven First US Covid-19 Wave More Than Those from China, Study Suggests, with Daniel Simon, The Conversation, January, 2021.

44. Empirical Evidence of the Value of Privacy, with Scott Wallsten, Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, 12, 8, pp. 648-654, 2021.

45. Improved Economic Analysis Should Be Lasting Part of Pai's FCC Legacy, with Babette Boliek and Jerry Ellig, The Hill, December, 2020.

46. The Economics of Digital Platforms: A Guide for Regulators, with Michael R. Baye, Global Antitrust Institute Report on the Digital Economy, 2020.

47. FCC Comments on Vertical Merger Guidelines, with Giulia McHenry, Patrick DeGraba, Eric Ralph, Catherine Matraves, Eugene Kiselev, and Aleksandr Yankelevich, February, 2020.

48. Does Original Content Help Streaming Services Attract More Subscribers?, Harvard Business Review, April, 2018.

49. Position Statement on Challenges Facing Online Video Distributors, FCC’s Video Landscape Workshop, March, 2016.

50. The Dynamic Effects of Triple Play Bundling in Telecommunications, Time Warner Research Program on Digital Communications, Winter, 2012.

51. The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States, with Shane Greenstein, in (eds) Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone, The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, pp. 168-195, 2007.

52. The Geographical Diffusion of the Internet in the United States, with Shane Greenstein, in (eds) Munindar Singh, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, pp. 56-1 – 56-17, 2004.