"Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods," (with Marc Rysman) April 2007 [Download paper]
"Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly," (with Robert J. Town) July 2006 [Download paper]
"Causality, Learning and Forgetting in Surgery," (with Vivian Ho and Robert J. Town) January 2006 [Download paper]
"The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model," (with John Krainer) April 2007 [Download paper]
Published/forthcoming papers (in PDF format)
"Learning and the Value of Information: Evidence from Health Plan Report Cards," (with Michael Chernew and Dennis Scanlon) (Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming) [Download paper]
"Electoral Design and Voter Welfare from the U.S. Senate: Evidence from a Dynamic Selection Model," (with Matthew F. Mitchell and Andrea Moro), (Review of Economic Dynamics, 11, 1-17, 2008) [Download paper]
"Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry," (with Daniel A. Ackerberg), (RAND Journal of Economics 37, 738-61, 2006) [Download paper]
"Quality, Price and Employers' Choice of Health Plan," (with Michael Chernew, Catherine McLaughlin and Teresa Gibson), (Journal of Health Economics 23, 471-92, 2004) [Download paper]
"Network Externalities and Technology Adoption: Lessons from Electronic Payments," (with Joanna Stavins), (RAND Journal of Economics 35, 260-76, 2004) [Download paper]
"Mergers and the Evolution of Industry Concentration: Results From the Dominant Firm Model," (with Thomas J. Holmes), (RAND Journal of Economics 35, 561-82, 2004) [Download paper][Download web notes]
"Bayesian Inference For Hospital Quality in a Selection Model," (with John Geweke and Robert J. Town), (Econometrica 71, 1215-1238, 2003) [Download paper][Download appendices]
"Competition, Payers and Hospital Quality," (with Robert J. Town), (Health Services Research 38, 1403-22, 2003) [Download paper]
"Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior," (with Michael Chernew and A. Mark Fendrick), (Journal of Health Economics 21, 451-474, 2002) [Download paper]
"Estimating the Quality of Care in Hospitals Using Instrumental Variables," (with Robert J. Town), (Journal of Health Economics 18, 747-67, 1999) [Download paper]
"A Dynamic Model of Endogenous Horizontal Mergers," (RAND Journal of Economics 30, 56-83, 1999) [Download paper]
"Efficient Representation of State Spaces for Some Dynamic Models," (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23, 1077-98, 1999) [Download paper]
"Dynamic Equilibrium in the Hospital Industry," (with Robert J. Town), (Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 6, 45-74, 1997) [Download paper]
Other Publications
"Why Do Americans Still Write Checks?" (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-27, September 2002) [Download paper]
"Productivity in Heart Attack Treatments," (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-20, July 2002) [Download paper]
"Competition and Regulation in the Airline Industry," (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-01, January 2002) [Download paper]
"Issues and Prospects for Payment System Deregulation," January 1998 [Download paper]
