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Short-id: pba2035

Working Papers

2021

1. Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)

2020

2. Communication and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2019

3. Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Common Ownership in America: 1980–2017, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (9) (2021)
4. On Testing Continuity and the Detection of Failures
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
5. Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
   Also in 2014 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2014) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Why Is Productivity Correlated With Competition?, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2020) View citations (27) (2020)

2018

6. I Don't Know
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article I Don’t Know, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press (2020) (2020)
7. Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions*, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2020) View citations (30) (2020)

2017

8. Expectation, Disappointment, and Exit: Reference Point Formation in a Marketplace
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2016

9. Dynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2015

10. Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
11. Is Sniping A Problem For Online Auction Markets?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2010

12. An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market
    2010 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (2)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2009)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Expectation, Disappointment, and Exit: Evidence on Reference Point Formation from an Online Marketplace
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20, (1), 116-149 View citations (3)

2021

2. Common Ownership in America: 1980–2017
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13, (3), 273-308 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (8) (2019)

2020

3. I Don’t Know
   American Political Science Review, 2020, 114, (3), 724-743
   See also Working Paper I Don't Know, NBER Working Papers (2018) (2018)
4. Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions*
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135, (3), 1319-1361 View citations (30)
   See also Working Paper Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (9) (2018)
5. Theory and Measurement of Common Ownership
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 557-60 View citations (1)
6. Why Is Productivity Correlated With Competition?
   Econometrica, 2020, 88, (6), 2415-2444 View citations (27)
   See also Working Paper Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (6) (2019)

2019

7. On the Empirical Content of Cheap-Talk Signaling: An Application to Bargaining
   Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127, (4), 1599 - 1628 View citations (20)

Chapters

2022

1. Bargaining in Online Markets
   Springer