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Microeconomics

Market Structure and Pricing


2009
w15476 Phillip Leslie
Alan Sorensen

The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale

w15253 Susan Athey
Glenn Ellison

Position Auctions with Consumer Search

w15237 Glenn Ellison
Alexander Wolitzky

A Search Cost Model of Obfuscation

w15226 James J. Heckman
Rosa L. Matzkin
Lars Nesheim

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models

w15158 Nuno Cassola
Ali Hortacsu
Jakub Kastl

The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds

w15092 Jeremy T. Fox
Identification in Matching Games

w15067 Hongbin Cai
J. Vernon Henderson
Qinghua Zhang

China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption

w15019 Kathryn Graddy
George Hall

A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market

w14946 Michael Schwarz
Yuri Takhteyev

Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

w14841 Trevon Logan
Manisha Shah

Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market

w14855 Patrick Bajari
Gregory Lewis

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

w14835 Mario J. Crucini
Mototsugu Shintani
Takayuki Tsuruga

The Law of One Price Without the Border: The Role of Distance Versus Sticky Prices

w14765 Jeremy Bulow
Jonathan Levin
Paul Milgrom

Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions

w14755 Robert S. Pindyck
Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry

w14718 Kyna Fong
Michael Schwarz

Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

w14712 Patrick Bolton
Xavier Freixas
Joel Shapiro

The Credit Ratings Game


2008
w14590 Susan Athey
Jonathan Levin
Enrique Seira

Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions

w14383 Florin O. Bilbiie
Fabio Ghironi
Marc J. Melitz

Monopoly Power and Endogenous Product Variety: Distortions and Remedies

w14381 Mario J. Crucini
Mototsugu Shintani
Takayuki Tsuruga

Accounting for Persistence and Volatility of Good-Level Real Exchange Rates: The Role of Sticky Information

w14345 Mohammad Arzaghi
Ernst R. Berndt
James C. Davis
Alvin J. Silk

Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

w14273 Ross Levine
Alexey Levkov
Yona Rubinstein

Racial Discrimination and Competition

w14166 Maris Goldmanis
Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson
Onsel Emre

E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

w14162 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Erich Muehlegger
Krislert Samphantharak

Edgeworth Cycles Revisited

w14153 M. Kate Bundorf
Jonathan D. Levin
Neale Mahoney

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

w14122 Elhanan Helpman
Oleg Itskhoki
Stephen Redding

Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers

w14030 Lucas W. Davis
Lutz Kilian

The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas

w14004 Gary Richardson
Michael McBride

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.

w13916 Chenghuan Sean Chu
Phillip Leslie
Alan Sorensen

Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms

w13822 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Learning in the Credit Card Market

w13808 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables

w13788 Matthew Cary
Aparna Das
Benjamin Edelman
Ioannis Giotis
Kurtis Heimerl
Anna R. Karlin
Claire Mathieu
Michael Schwarz

On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions

w13752 Alma Cohen
Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study


2007
w13699 Young Han Lee
Ulrike Malmendier

The Bidder's Curse

w13666 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

w13530 Alvin E. Roth
What Have We Learned From Market Design?

w13268 Jeremy I. Bulow
Paul D. Klemperer

When are Auctions Best?

w13072 Glenn W. Harrison
John A. List

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

w13058 Arghya Ghosh
Hodaka Morita

An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing

w12961 Morten Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits

w12894 Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson

Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices


2006
w12785 Axel Ockenfels
David Reiley
Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Online Auctions

w12681 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract

w12539 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Importation and Innovation

w12486 Laarni Bulan
Christopher J. Mayer
C. Tsuriel Somerville

Irreversible Investment, Real Options, and Competition: Evidence from Real Estate Development

w12370 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices

w12355 Joseph Gyourko
Christopher Mayer
Todd Sinai

Superstar Cities

w12342 Zhonglan Dai
Edward Maydew
Douglas A. Shackelford
Harold H. Zhang

Capital Gains Taxes and Asset Prices: Capitalization or Lock-In?

w12334 Muriel Niederle
Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

w12261 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

w12231 Chad Syverson
Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogenous Producers: An Empirical Test

w12218 William D. Nordhaus
Baumol's Diseases: A Macroeconomic Perspective

w12200 Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

w12126 Susan Athey
Philip A. Haile

Empirical Models of Auctions

w12094 Michael R. Darby
Lynne G. Zucker

Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly

w11958 Guillermo Caruana
Liran Einav

Production Targets

w11922 Pierpaolo Benigno
Anastasios Karantounias

Overconfidence, Subjective Perception and Pricing Behavior


2005
w11870 Adam Copeland
George Hall

The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand

w11809 Jerry Hausman
Ephraim Leibtag

Consumer Benefits from Increased Competition in Shopping Outlets: Measuring the Effect of Wal-Mart

w11774 Bee Yan Aw
Mark J. Roberts
Tor Winston

The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth

w11673 Leemore S. Dafny
Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers

w11603 David S. Evans
Richard Schmalensee

The Industrial Organization of Markets with Two-Sided Platforms

w11506 Jeremy Bulow
Jonathan Levin

Matching and Price Competition

w11431 John A. Rizzo
Richard Zeckhauser

Generic Scrip Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of the Consumer

w11430 Robert S. Pindyck
Sunk Costs and Real Options in Antitrust

w11388 Diego Comin
Thomas Philippon

The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility: Causes and Consequences

w11351 Charles W. Calomiris
Thanavut Pornrojnangkool

Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston

w11257 Adam Copeland
Wendy Dunn
George Hall

Prices, Production and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year

w11201 Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar

Competition and Efficiency in Congested Markets

w11039 Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry
Amir Sufi

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from long-term care insurance


2004
w11012 Morten O. Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

The Macroeconomics of Subsistence Points

w10915 Julio J. Rotemberg
Fair Pricing

w10891 Peter M. DeMarzo
Ilan Kremer
Andrzej Skrzypacz

Bidding With Securities: Auctions and Security Design

w10795 Orley Ashenfelter
Kathryn Graddy

Anatomy of the Rise and Fall of a Price-Fixing Conspiracy: Auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's

w10594 Dennis W. Carlton
James D. Dana

Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty

w10570 Glenn Ellison
Sara Fisher Ellison

Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet

w10427 Alan G. White
Jaison R. Abel
Ernst R. Berndt
Cory W. Monroe

Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computer Operating Systems and Productivity Suites

w10363 Luis Cabral
Ali Hortacsu

The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay

w10269 Andrei Shleifer
Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?


2003
w10162 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts

w10105 Philip A. Haile
Han Hong
Matthew Shum

Nonparametric Tests for Common Values at First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions

w9966 Jaison R. Abel
Ernst R. Berndt
Alan G. White

Price Indexes for Microsoft's Personal Computer Software Products

w9836 Ken Hendricks
Robert Porter
Guofu Tan

Bidding Rings and the Winner's Curse: The Case of Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions

w9795 Alexandre Ziegler
Edward P. Lazear

The Dominance of Retail Stores

w9726 Martin Pesendorfer
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games

w9592 Helen Owens
Rail Reform Strategies: The Australian Experience

w9416 Gilbert E. Metcalf
George Norman

Oligopoly Deregulation in General Equilibrium: A Tax Neutralization Result

w9415 Gilbert E. Metcalf
George Norman

Oligopoly Deregulation and the Taxation of Commodities


2002
w8997 Orley Ashenfelter
Kathryn Graddy

Art Auctions: A Survey of Empirical Studies

w8883 John Rust
George Hall

Middlemen versus Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive Exchange

w8869 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

Competition in or for the Field: Which is Better?

w8803 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

Highway Franchising and Real Estate Values


2001
w8632 Michael Chernew
Gautam Gowrisankaran
A. Mark Fendrick

Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior

w8626 Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Martin Pesendorfer

Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game

w8547 Steven J. Davis
Kevin M. Murphy
Robert H. Topel

Entry, Pricing and Product Design in an Initially Monopolized Market

t0271 Helen Tauchen
Ann Dryden Witte

Estimating Hedonic Models: Implications of the Theory

w8294 Kenneth Hendricks
Joris Pinkse
Robert H. Porter

Empirical Implications of Equilibrium Bidding in First-Price, Symmetric, Common Value Auctions

w8183 Rama Katkar
David Lucking-Reiley

Public Versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions: Results from a Pokemon Field Experiment

w8146 Eduardo M.R.A. Engel
Ronald D. Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

w8138 Alan J. Auerbach
James R. Hines Jr.

Perfect Taxation with Imperfect Competition


2000
w8017 Luis Garicano
Steven N. Kaplan

The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

w7513 Simon P. Anderson
Stephen Coate

Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting

w7494 Kala Krishna
Tor Winston

If at First You Don't Succeed...: Profits, Prices and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity

w7470 Igal Hendel
Alessandro Lizzeri

The Role of Commitment in Dynamic Contracts: Evidence from Life Insurance


1999
w7303 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Incomplete Contracts and Industrial Organization

w7273 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Competition Between Competition Rules

w7185 Susan Athey
Jonathan Levin

Information and Competition in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions

w7165 John C. Driscoll
Harumi Ito

Sticky Prices, Coordination and Collusion

w7149 Robert H. Porter
Peter Sattler

Patterns of Trade in the Market for Used Durables: Theory and Evidence

w6952 Kala Krishna
Torben Tranaes

Efficient Competition With Small Numbers -- With Applications to Privatisation and Mergers

w6877 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Theofanis P. Mamuneas
Panos Pashardes

Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing


1998
w6753 Tor Jakob Klette
Zvi Griliches

Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment: A QuUality LadderModel Interpretation

w6580 Kala Krishna
Tor Winston

A New Model of Quality

w6481 Steven Berry
James Levinsohn
Ariel Pakes

Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market


1997
w6269 Catherine D. Wolfram
Strategic Bidding in a Multi-Unit Auction: An Empirical Analysis of Bids to Supply Electricity

w6220 Edward L. Glaeser
Erzo F. P. Luttmer

The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control

w6075 Mark J. Roberts
Dylan Supina

Output Price and Markup Dispersion in Micro Data: The Roles of Producer Heterogeneity and Noise

w5945 Tor Jakob Klette
Zvi Griliches

Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment: A Quality Ladder Model Interpretation

w5872 Jeremy Bulow
Paul Klemperer

The Generalized War of Attrition


1996
w5782 Dennis W. Carlton
A Critical Assessment of the Role of Imperfect Competition in Macroeconomics

w5745 Paul L. Joskow
Richard Schmalensee
Elizabeth M. Bailey

Auction Design and the Market for Sulfur Dioxide Emissions

w5719 Lars E. O. Svensson
Price Level Targeting vs. Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch?


1995
w4205 Dominique Demougin
Hans-Werner Sinn

Privatization, Risk-Taking, and the Communist Firm


1994
w4970 Jerry A. Hausman
Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition

w4943 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor

Insurance Rationing and the Origins of Workers' Compensation

w4904 Ernst R. Berndt
Linda Bui
David Reiley
Glen Urban

The Roles of Marketing, Product Quality and Price Competition in the Growth and Composition of the U.S. Anti-Ulcer Drug Industry

w4899 Shane Greenstein
From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market

w4806 Atish R. Ghosh
Holger C. Wolf

Pricing in International Markets: Lessons From The Economist


1992
w4013 Robert H. Porter
J. Douglas Zona

Detection of Bid Rigging in Procurement Auctions

t0119 Ariel Pakes
Paul McGuire

Computing Markov Perfect Nash Equilibria: Numerical Implications of a Dynamic Differentiated Product Model


1991
w3928 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Appointment-Book Problem and Commitment, With Applications to Refereeing and Medicine

w3786 Dennis W. Carlton
The Theory of Allocation and Its Implications for Marketing and Industrial Structure


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