Details about Vikram Maheshri

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Working Papers

2024

1. Boundaries Generate Discontinuities in the Urban Landscape
   Working Papers, University of South Florida, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2021

2. Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research
   Also in Carlo Alberto Notebooks, Collegio Carlo Alberto (2020)
   See also Journal Article Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (7) (2024)

2018

3. Do Security Measures Displace Crime? Theory and Evidence from Italian Bank Robberies
   Carlo Alberto Notebooks, Collegio Carlo Alberto View citations (1)

2015

4. A Dynamic Duverger's Law
   Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article A dynamic Duverger’s law, Public Choice, Springer (2015) View citations (4) (2015)

2012

5. (De)Regulation and Market Thickness
   Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2025

1. A unified empirical framework to study neighborhood segregation
   Quantitative Economics, 2025, 16, (3), 1023-1057

2024

2. Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16, (2), 335-65 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations, CEPR Discussion Papers (2021) (2021)

2023

3. Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41, (1), 175 - 203 View citations (2)

2021

4. The Race Between Deterrence and Displacement: Theory and Evidence from Bank Robberies
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103, (3), 547-562 View citations (8)

2019

5. Gender segregation within neighborhoods
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, (C), 253-263 View citations (3)

2018

6. Identifying dynamic spillovers of crime with a causal approach to model selection
   Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, (1), 343-394 View citations (15)

2017

7. From gallons to miles: A disaggregate analysis of automobile travel and externality taxes
   Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, (C), 34-46 View citations (36)
8. School segregation and the identification of tipping behavior
   Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, (C), 115-135 View citations (16)

2016

9. Did the Great Recession keep bad drivers off the road?
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52, (3), 255-280 View citations (10)

2015

10. A dynamic Duverger’s law
    Public Choice, 2015, 165, (3), 285-306 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper A Dynamic Duverger's Law, Working Papers (2015) View citations (4) (2015)

2014

11. An exploratory study of the pricing of legal services
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 38, (S), 169-173 View citations (6)

2011

12. Long-Run Effects of Mergers: The Case of U.S. Western Railroads
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54, (2), 275 - 304 View citations (18)

2007

13. On the social desirability of urban rail transit systems
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 62, (2), 362-382 View citations (46)

2006

14. An exploration of the offset hypothesis using disaggregate data: The case of airbags and antilock brakes
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006, 32, (2), 83-99 View citations (24)