Research

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Working Papers:

• “Steering Incentives of Gatekeepers in the Telecommunications Industry” with Brian McManus, Aviv Nevo, and Zach Nolan (Submitted)
• “The Tragedy of The Last Mile: Economic Solutions to Congestion in Broadband Networks.” with Jacob Malone and Aviv Nevo (Reject and Resubmit at American Economic Review)
• “Are Auctions an Upgrade to Revenue Management? Evidence from the Airline Industry“, with Alex Marsh and Garrett Scott (Revise and Resubmit at Quantitative Marketing and Economics)
• “Do ISPs Have an Incentive to Prevent Media Piracy?” with Zach Nolan and Haoran Zhang (submitted)
• “Revenue Management with Reallocation”, with Alex Marsh and Garrett Scott
• “Do we have the Need, the Need for Speed?” with Matt Ross (submitted)
• “Taxation in Networks: Evidence from the Airline Industry” with David Agrawal and Quinton White
• “Targeting Discounts in the Airline Industry”, with Andrii Babii, Alex Marsh, and Garrett Scott
• “Measuring the Implications of Dynamic Free Riding: Evidence from Telecommunications”, with Fei Li, Katja Seim, and Haoran Zhang
• “Determinants of the Timing of Purchase in Dynamic Pricing Environments”, with Fei Li and Garrett Scott
• “Market Definitions in Telecommunications”, with Aviv Nevo, Katja Seim, Rongze Yang

Works in Progress:

• “Personalized Bundling”
• “Tracing More than Just the Woes: The Airline Industry 1995-2024
• “Unbundling in Telecommunications”

Publications:

• “Does Pricing of Internet Usage Steer Consumers or Meter Usage? Evidence from a Pricing Experiment“, with Brian McManus, Aviv Nevo, and Zach Nolan (Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics)
• “Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Behavior Using Airline Web-Traffic Data“, with Alex Marsh, Garrett Scott, and Drew Van Kuiken, Economics of Transportation
• “Competition and Investment in Telecommunications: Evidence from CRTC’s Third-Party ISP Access“, with Matt Ross, forthcoming Review of Industrial Organization
• “Price Discrimination in International Airline Markets” with Gaurab Aryal and Charlie Murry, Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 1-49
• “Is OTT Video a Substitute for TV? Policy Insights from Cord-Cutting” with Jacob Malone, Aviv Nevo, and Zach Nolan, Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(6), 2023, 1615-1623
• “Leadership and Productivity: A Study of US Automobile Assembly Plants”, with Soledad Giardili and Kamalini Ramdas, Management Science, 69(3), 2022, 1500-1517 
• “The Distribution of Surplus in the US Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Paragraph (iv) Patent Litigation Decisions”, with Ruben Jacobo-Rubio and John Turner, Journal of Law & Economics, 63(2), 2020, 203-238 
• “Collusive Pricing Patterns in the US Airline Industry“, with Federico Ciliberto and Edwin Watkins, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, 62, 136-157
• “Taxation in the Aviation Industry: Insights and Challenges” with David Agrawal and Quinton White, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2673(9), 2019, 666-673
• “Trends in Private Patent Costs and Rents for Publicly-Traded United States Firms“, with James Bessen, Peter Neuhausler, and John Turner, International Review of Law and Economics, 56, 2018, 53-69
•  “Off-Label Use of Pharmaceuticals: Trends and Drivers”, with David Bradford and John Turner, Journal of Industrial Economics, 66(4), 2018, 866-903
• “Network Structure and Consolidation in the US Airline Industry” with Federico Ciliberto and Emily Cook, Review of Industrial Organization, 54, 2018, 3-36
• “Effects of Mergers and Divestitures on Airline Fares” with Zhou Zhang and Federico Ciliberto, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2603, 2017, pp. 98-104
• “Robust Scheduling Practices in the U.S. Airline Industry: Costs, Returns, and Inefficiencies.” with Scott Atkinson and Kamalini Ramdas, Management Science, 2016, 62(11), 3372-3391
• “Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband”, with Aviv Nevo and John Turner, Econometrica, 2016, 84(2), 411-443
•  “Barriers to Entry in the Airline Industry: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis of AIR-21”, with Connan Snider, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(5), 1002-1022
• “Does Multimarket Contact Facilitate Tacit Collusion? Inference on Conduct Parameters in the Airline Industry”, with Federico Ciliberto, RAND Journal of Economics, 2014, 45(4), 764-791
• “Do Three-Part Tariffs Improve Efficiency in Residential Broadband Networks?”, with Jacob Malone and John Turner.  Telecommunications Policy, 2014, 38(11), 1035-1045
• “Non-Separable Pollution Control: Implications for a CO2 Emissions Cap and Trade System”, with Mark D. Agee, Scott Atkinson, and Thomas Crocker, Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, 36(1), 64-82
• “Can Stock Price Movements Inform Operational Improvement Efforts?  Evidence from the Airline Industry”, with Marc Lipson and Kamalini Ramdas, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2013, 15(3), 423-443
• “Limited Access to Airport Facilities and Market Power in the Airline Industry”, with Federico Ciliberto, Journal of Law & Economics, 2010, 53(3), 467-495

Policy Publications:

• Supercharging Energy Storage Innovations in North Carolina,

Conference Proceedings:

• “CableMon: Improving the Reliability of Cable Broadband Networks via Proactive Network Maintenance“, with Jiyao Hu Zhenyu Zhou, Xiaowei Yang, and Jacob Malone,Proceedings of the17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation