Research

Works in Progress

"Ohio Rock Salt Procurement Auctions, Bid Preferences, and Competition", with N. Kim. August, 2024. Under revision for the Rand Journal of Economics.

"Buyer Power in the Beef Packing Industry", with F. Garrido, M. Kim, and N. Miller, under revision. 

"Monopsony and the Countervailing Power of Unions: Evidence from K-12 Teachers", with T. Angerhofer and A. Collard-Wexler, draft soon, slides here.

Publications

"A Price Leadership Model for Merger Analysis", with R. Mansley, N. Miller, and G. Sheu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 89, 2023.

"Oligopoly Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry", with N. Miller and G. Sheu, American Economic Review, Vol. 68, No. 11, 2021.

• Jerry S. Cohen Award for Best Antitrust Article on Merger Retrospectives

"Any Wiling Provider and Negotiated Pharmaceutical Prices", with D. Hosken and D. Schmitt, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 68, No. 1, 2020.

"How Does Advertising Depend on Competition? Evidence from U.S. Brewing", with A. Chandra, Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 11, 2018.

"Understanding the Price Effects of the Miller/Coors Joint Venture", with N. Miller, Econometrica, Vol. 85, No. 6, November 2017.

• Best Paper Award, Association of Competition Economics.

• Robert F. Lanzilotti Prize for Best Paper in Antitrust Economics, International Industrial Organization Conference.

"Efficiencies Brewed: Pricing and Consolidation in the U.S. Beer Industry", with O. Ashenfelter and D. Hosken, Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2015.

• American Bar Association Prize for Paper Conducting Retrospective Analysis of Merger Decision Outcomes.

"How Effective are Enforcement Efforts Targeting Illegal Drugs: Evaluating OTC Regulations Targeting Methamphetamine Precursors", with C. Dobkin and N. Nicosia, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 120, 2014.

"Did Robert Bork Understate the Competitive Impact of Mergers? Evidence from Consummated Mergers", with O. Ashenfelter and D. Hosken, Journal of Law and Economics, V. 120, 2014.

"The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool", with O. Ashenfelter and D. Hosken, American Economic Journal: Policy, V. 5, No. 1, 2013.

"Evidence on the Accuracy of Merger Simulations", with D. Hosken, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2013.

"Heterogeneity in Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement",  with G. Mastrobuoni, American Economic Journal: Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2., 2009. 

"The Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers", Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Vol 4. No. , 2008.

Invited and Editor Reviewed Publications

"Price Fixing Allegations in the Canned Tuna Industry: A Look at the Data", with M. Kim, R. Mansley, and N. Miller, and M. Remer, Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 68, No. 1, 2023.

"How the MillerCoors Joint Venture Changed Competition in U.S. Brewing", with N. Miller, Microeconomic Insights, December, 2017.

"Ex Post Merger Evaluation: How Does it Help Ex Ante", with D. Hosken and N. Miller, Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017.

"Retrospective Analysis of Hospital Mergers", with O. Ashenfelter, D. Hosken, and M. Vita, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2011.

"Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement", with O. Ashenfelter and D. Hosken, Competition Policy International, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009.