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202204: Win/Loss Data, Consumer Switching Costs: Measuring Diversion Ratios and the Impact of Mergers

Jeff Qiu, Masayuki Sawada and Gloria Sheu

202203: Bundling with Resale

Drew Vollmer

202202: Is Resale Needed in Markets with Refunds? Evidence from College Football Ticket Sales

Drew Vollmer

202201: Online Reviews and Hospital Choices

Ian McCarthy, Kaylyn Sanbower and Leonardo Sánchez Aragón

202104: Analyzing Vertical Mergers with Auctions Upstream

Joseph Podwol and Alexander Raskovich

202103: Franchise Termination Laws, Craft Brewery Entry and Growth

Jacob Burgdorf

202102: Three Economist’s Tools for Antitrust and Merger Analysis: Case Applications

Russell Pittman

202101: On the Economics of the Restructuring of World Railways, with a Focus on Russia

Russell Pittman

201902: The Effectiveness of EC Policies to Move Freight from Road to Rail: Evidence from CEE Grain Markets

Russell Pittman, Monika Jandová, Marcin Król, Larysa Nekrasenko and Tomáš Paleta

201901: Common Ownership and Airlines: Evaluating an Alternate Ownership Data Source

Eric Lewis and Randy Chugh

201801: Pricing of Complements in the U.S. Freight Railroads: Cournot Versus Coase

Alexei Alexandrov, Russell Pittman and Olga Ukhaneva

201703: Simulating Mergers in a Vertical Supply Chain with Bargaining

Gloria Sheu and Charles Taragin

201702: Forward Contracts, Market Structure, and the Welfare Effects of Mergers

Nathan Miller and Joseph Podwol

201701: Three Economist’s Tools for Antitrust Analysis: A Non-Technical Introduction

Russell Pittman

201604: Collusion Along the Learning Curve: Theory and Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Danial Asmat

201603: The Strange Career of Independent Voting Trusts in U.S. Rail Mergers

Russell Pittman

201602: Upward Pricing Pressure as a Predictor of Merger Price Effects

Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, Conor Ryan and Gloria Sheu

201601: Tort Liability and Settlement Failure: Evidence on Litigated Auto Insurance Claims

Danial Asmat and Sharon Tennyson

201501: Sequential English Auctions: A Theory of Opening-bid Fishing

Joseph Podwol

201403: Bargaining Power and the Effects of Joint Negotiation: The “Recapture Effect”

Craig Peters

201402: Search, Price Dispersion, and Local Competition: Estimating Heterogeneous Search Costs in Retail Gasoline Markets

Mitsukuni Nishida and Marc Remer

201401: Bias in Reduced-Form Estimates of Pass-through

Alexander MacKay, Nathan Miller, Marc Remer and Gloria Sheu

201302: Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Auction Markets

Matthew Backus, Joseph Podwol and Henry Schneider

201301: Forward Contracting and the Welfare Effects of Mergers

Nathan Miller

201210: An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Asymmetric Pricing

Marc Remer

201209: Using Cost Pass-Through to Calibrate Demand

Nathan Miller, Marc Remer and Gloria Sheu

201208: Approximating the Price Effects of Mergers: Numerical Evidence and an Empirical Application

Nathan Miller, Conor Ryan, Marc Remer and Gloria Sheu

201207: Calibrating the AIDS and Multinomial Logit Models with Observed Product Margins

Gloria Sheu and Charles Taragin

201206: Endogenous Entry in Markets with Unobserved Quality

Anthony Creane and Thomas Jeitschko

201205: Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization

Thomas Jeitschko and Nanyun Zhang

201204: Shipping the Good Apples Out Under Asymmetric Information

Anthony Creane and Thomas Jeitschko

201203: Some New Evidence About the Effects of U.S. Antidumping Orders and Their Administrative Reviews on the Prices of Covered Import

William Nye

201202: The Proposed Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile: Are There Unexhausted Scale Economies in U.S. Mobile Telephony?

Russell Pittman

201201: Incorporating Prior Information into a GMM Objective for Mixed Logit Demand Systems

Charles Romeo

201103: Blame the Switchman? Russian Railways Restructuring After Ten Years

Russell Pittman

201102: Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: Informational Implications of Preliminary Injunctions

Thomas Jeitschko and Byung-Cheol Kim

201101: Antitrust Immunity and International Airline Alliances

William Gillespie and Oliver Richard

201005: Cumulative Innovation and Competition Policy

Alexander Raskovich and Nathan Miller

201004: A Theory of Quality Competition in Newspaper Joint Operating Agreements

Charles Romeo and Aran Canes

201003: Filling Out the Instrument Set in Mixed Logit Demand Systems for Aggregate Data

Charles Romeo

201002: Competition Among Spatially Differentiated Firms: An Empirical Model with an Application to Cement

Nathan Miller and Matthew Osborne

201001: The Economics of Railroad “Captive Shipper” Legislation

Russell Pittman

200907: The Entry Incentives of Complementary Producers: A Simple Model with Implications for Antitrust Policy

Juan Lleras and Nathan Miller

200906: Competition Issues in Restructuring Ports and Railways, Including Brief Consideration of these Sectors in India

Russell Pittman

200905: Does Competition Among Medicare Advantage Plans Matter?: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Local Competition in a Regulated Environment

Abe Dunn

200904: Why Prices Rise Faster than they Fall

Sheldon Kimmel

200903: Who Are You Calling Irrational? Marginal Costs, Variable Costs, and the Pricing Practices of Firms

Russell Pittman

200902: Railway Mergers and Railway Alliances: Competition Issues and Lessons for Other Network Industries

Russell Pittman

200901: Merger Review of Firms in Financial Distress

Ken Heyer and Sheldon Kimmel

200813: Competitive Advocacy Opportunity: Zeroing in U.S. Antidumping Enforcement

William Nye