Research

Fields

• Industrial Organization
• Econometrics
• Media Economics

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

• " The Discriminatory Incentives to Bundle in the Cable Television Industry , Quantitative Marketing and Economics, v6n1 (March 2008), 41-78.

• " Bidding Asymmetries in Multi-Unit Auctions: Implications of Bid Function Equilibria in the British Spot Market for Electricity ," (with Joseph Crespo and Helen Tauchen), International Journal of Industrial Organization , v25n6 (December 2007), 1233-1268.

• "Bundling, Product Choice, and Efficiency: Should Cable Television Networks be Offered A La Carte?", (with Joseph Cullen), Information Economics and Policy, v19n3-4 (October 2007), 379-404.

• " Monopoly Quality Degradation and Regulation in Cable Television ," (with Matthew Shum), Journal of Law and Economics, v50n1 (February 2007), 181-209.

• " Uncertainty and Learning in Pharmaceutical Demand ," (with Matthew Shum), Econometrica, 73n4 (July 2005), 1135-1174.

• " Recent Advances in Structural Econometric Modeling: Dynamics, Product Positioning, and Entry," (with J.-P. Dube, K. Sudhir, A. Ching, M. Draganska, J. Fox, W. Hartmann, G. Hitsch, B. Viard, M. Villas-Boas, and N. Vilcassim), Marketing Letters, v16n2 (July 2005).

• " The Impact of the 1992 Cable Act on Household Demand and Welfare," RAND Journal of Economics, v31n3 (Autumn 2000), 422-449.

Reports

• "Television Station Ownership Structure and the Quantity and Quality of TV Programming," July 2007.
  • Research study on media ownership commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission.

• "The Empirical Consequences of Advertising Content in the Hungarian Mobile Phone Market,'' (with Jozsef Molnar), March 2008.
  • Preliminary results for a grant from the Hungarian Competition Authority.

Current Working Papers

• "The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multi-Channel Television Markets,'' (joint with Ali Yurukoglu), June 2008.
  • New draft. Nearly complete.

• "Cable Regulation in the Satellite Era", September 2006
  • Survey chapter for NBER book on regulation. Comments welcome.

• " The Welfare Effects of Endogenous Quality Choice: The Case of Cable Television ," (with Matthew Shum), February 2006.
  • Preliminary results. Extending econometric model in progress.

• Estimating Price Elasticities in Differentiated Product Demand Models with Endogenous Characteristics," (with Dan Ackerberg), March 2007.
  • Rough draft with basic idea. New draft in progress.

• "A Virtual Stakes Approach to Measuring Competition in Product Markets," (with R. Michael Black, Shihua Lu, and Hal White), mimeo, May 2004.
  • Outlines theory and estimation. Working to test on observational data.

Current Work In Progress (See here for more details).

• "Robust Instrumental Variables," (with Dan Ackerberg), March 2007.

• "An Empirical Analysis of Manufacturer-Retailer Interaction: What Determines Wholesale Prices?" (with Zsolt Mackasi), May 2006.

• "Storability, Competition, and Sales: Do Firms Cut Prices to Steal Demand from Rivals or Themselves?,'' (with James J. Anton), April 2005.

• "A Dynamic Model of Quality Competition in Subscription Television Markets,'' (with Alex Shcherbakov), March 2007.

• "The Impact of Ratings and Word-of-Mouth on DVD Rentals: An Analysis of the Netflix Data," (with Ivan Maryanchyk), February 2007.

  
  
  

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