Working Papers
Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers (.pdf, 9.1MB) ( figures (.pdf, 8.4MB)) ( figures:long version (.pdf, 23.0MB)); with John McLaren Extended version (.pdf, 406KB) ( figures (.pdf, 25.4MB))
(.pdf, 418KB) Information Congestion: open access in a two-sided market (.pdf, 516KB); ( New figures (.pdf, 82KB)) ( Newest Document (.pdf, 430KB)); with Andre de Palma, April 2007
Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary (.doc, 43KB); Comments welcome. Thanks to Emily Blanchard, Maxim Engers, Sanjay Jain, and Cat Tyler for their comments.
Market Performance with Multiproduct Firms (.pdf, 349KB);with Andre de Palma ( Figures (.pdf, 10KB)), Journal of Industrial Economics, 54, (1), 95-124, March 2006
Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis; with Stephen Coate
Mar '04: ( Paper (.pdf, 389KB)) ( Figures (.pdf, 52KB))
Jan '05: ( Paper (.pdf, 389KB)) ( Figures (.pdf, 36KB)); Review of Economic Studies,72,(4), 947-972, October 2005
Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting (.pdf, 442KB); with Stephen Coate (Earlier Version)
Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination, and the Beautiful Blonde (.pdf, 278KB); with Maxim Engers,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 63/1, 120-137, May 2007
The Economics of Pricing Parking; with Andre de Palma, Journal of Urban Economics, 55, (1), 1-20, Jan 2004
Parking in the City (New: 10/5/06) (.pdf, 168KB); with Andre de Palma, Annals of Regional Science, forthcoming
Efficiency and Surplus Bounds in Cournot Competition;with Regis Renault,Journal of Economic Theory, 113, (2), 253-264, Dec 2003; short version (.pdf, 176KB)or long version-with figures (.pdf, 275KB)
Price Dispersion and Consumer Reservation Prices, (.pdf, 319KB) ( figures (.pdf, 156KB) and extra figures (.pdf, 130KB)); with Andre de Palma, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 14,(1), 61-92, Spring 2005
Advertising Content (.pdf, 383KB); with Regis Renault, American Economic Review,96,(1),93-113, March 2006
Price discrimination in transportation (.pdf, 377KB) ( figures (.doc, 227KB)) (in French); with Regis Renault; "Tarification Discriminante" in La Tarification des Transports: enjeux et defies, Ch.5, 107-151, Eds. A. de Palma and E. Quinet, Economica, Paris.
Price Discrimination (.pdf, 365KB) ( figures (.doc, 268KB)); with Regis Renault, forthcoming in Handbook in Transport EconomicsEdward Elgar,De Palma, A., R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman (eds.)
International Pricing with Costly Consumer Arbitrage (.pdf, 1.9MB); with Victor A. Ginsburgh; A study of parallel imports and gray markets, Review of International Economics, 7, (1), 126-139, February 1999
Noisy Directional Learning and the Logit Equilibrium (.pdf, 224KB) , with Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt, Scandinavian Journal of Economics Special Issue in Honor of Reinhard Selten, 106,(3),581-602, September 2004
Regulation of television advertising (.pdf, 276KB) in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy, Edited by Paul Seabright and Jorgen von Hagen, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521874052
The Media and Advertising: a tale of two-sided markets (.pdf, 839KB) ( tables (.pdf, 103KB)); with Jean J. Gabszewicz, Handbook of Cultural Economics; eds. Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby, Elsevier Science, forthcoming
Consumer Surplus (.doc, 22KB) and Producer Surplus (.doc, 22KB) with Maxim Engers, Articles for International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed. We thank for comments our colleagues: Emily Blanchard, Federico Ciliberto, Sanjay Jain, Bill Johnson, Ed Olsen, and John Whitaker
Platform Siphoning (.doc, 982KB) with Joshua Gans
Spatial Modeling in Transportation (.pdf, 369KB); with Wesley W. Wilson, Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, Ed. Jeremy F. Plant, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA
Comparative Advertising: Disclosing Horizontal Match Information (.pdf, 420KB)-long version( figures (.doc, 37KB)); with Régis Renaut, forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics
A Dominant Firm Model of Pricing Transportation Over Space (.pdf, 302KB)- ( Figures (.pdf, 79KB)); with Wesley W. Wilson
Differentiated Products, International Trade and Simple General Equilibrium Effects (.pdf, 257KB); with Nicolas Schmitt
Competition for attention in the information (overload) age (.pdf, 404KB), with Andre DePalma
The ABC of complementary products mergers (.pdf, 284KB), with Simon Loertscher and Yves Schneider
Getting into Your Head(ache): Advertising Content for OTC Analgesics (.pdf, 248KB), with Federico Ciliberto and Jura Liaukonyte
Emily Blanchard
Assistant Professor
Trade Imbalances, International Investment, and a Limitation of Lerner's Symmetry Theorem (.pdf, 266KB)
"Foreign Direct Investment, Endogenous Tariffs, and Preferential Trade Agreements"
"Reevaluating the Role of Trade Agreements: Does Investment Globalization
Make the WTO Obsolete?"
Professor
Are Lemons Really Hot Potatoes? (.pdf), with Monica Hartmann and Steven Stern
R & D Policy With Layers of Economic Integration (.pdf, 222KB), with Shannon K. Mitchell
Charity Auctions (.pdf, 418KB), with Brian McManus
Associate Professor
The Chore Wars: Household Bargaining and Leisure Time" (.pdf, 1.4MB)
"Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information" (.pdf, 458KB) with Steven Stern
"Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage",
joint with Michael Owyang and Tara Sinclair
"Presentation on Time Use Research" (.ppt, 736KB)
"Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households" with Anthony Webb
(.pdf, 597KB)
Professor
A Note on Wage Inflation in the 1930s U.S. (.pdf, 167KB)
William R. Johnson
Professor-Chairman
"Evaluating a Simple Model for Estimating Black-White Gaps in Median Wages (.pdf, 76KB)," with D. Neal and Y. Kitamura
"Basic Skills and the Black White Earnings Gap," (.pdf, 59KB)with Derek Neal
"Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?" (.pdf, 181KB)
Amalia Miller
Assistant Professor
The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path (.pdf, 397KB)
The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Academic Performance of Children in Low-Income Households (.pdf, 412KB)
Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records
Can Healthcare IT Save Babies?
Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation
Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform
Quasi-Partnerships in Distribution (.pdf, 199KB)
Buyer Power and Industry Structure (.pdf, 218KB)
Predatory Pricing in the Airlines Industry (.pdf, 244KB) with Kenneth G. Elizinga
The Economics of Resale Price Maintenance (.pdf, 118KB)with Kenneth G. Elizinga
Inducing Downstream Selling Effort with Market Share Discounts (.pdf, 288KB)
Edgar Olsen
Professor
Voucher Policy from the Perspective of a Taxpayer Who Wants to Help Low-Income Households (.pdf, 154KB)
Housing and Community Development Needs: The FY 2003 HUD Budget
(.pdf, 114KB)
Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census, with Dirk Early
Are Section 8 Housing Subsidies Too High?, with Amy Crews Cutts
The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Methods of Delivering Housing Subsidies (.pdf, 171KB)
Should the Housing Choice Voucher Program Be Converted to a Block Grant? (.pdf, 117KB)
The Millennial Housing Commission Report: An Assessment (.pdf, 126KB)
The Effects of Different Types of Housing Assistance on Earnings and Employment (.pdf)
Explaining Attrition in the Housing Voucher Program (.pdf)
Fundamental Housing Policy Reform (.pdf, 234KB)
Achieving Fundamental Housing Policy Reform (.doc, 117KB)
The Simple Analytics of Vouchering Out Unit-Based Housing Assistance
(.pdf, 495KB)
Whither Public Housing? (.pdf, 65KB)
The Effect on Program Participation of Replacing Current Low-Income Housing Programs with an Entitlement Housing Voucher Program (.pdf, 420KB), with Jeffery Tebbs
Promoting Homeownership among Low-Income Households (.pdf, 177KB)
Oversight of HUD and its Fiscal Year 2009 Budget (.pdf, 19KB)
Getting More from the HUD Budget
(.pdf, 218KB)
Getting More from Low-Income Housing Assistance (.pdf, 2.5MB)
The Future of Public Housing (.pdf, 44KB)
- UVA Living Wage Q&A (.pdf, 12KB)
- Housing the Poorest Hurricane Victims (.pdf, 13KB)
- Housing the Poorest Hurricane Victims-NOW (.pdf, 15KB)
- Rearranging the Deck Chairs in the Housing Market (.doc, 30KB)
- Improving the Housing Provisions of the Stimulus Package (.doc, 27KB)
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- Household Credit in China: Lessons from Abroad, by Bruce L. Reynolds (.doc, 400KB)
- Consumer Credit and Residential Mortgage Finance in the U.S., by Marc An (.pdf, 329KB)
- Best World Practices in Credit Reporting and Data Protection: Lessons for China (.pdf, 328KB), by Nicola Jentzsch
- Managing Risk in Consumer Credit Industry (.pdf, 645KB), by Jack Niu
- Credit Outreach and Agricultural Support on Lending Programs: The Case of Jiangsu Province in China (.doc, 156KB), by Enjiang Cheng
- Recent Growth and Institutional Constraints in China's Consumer Credit Sector (.doc, 423KB), by Bruce L. Reynolds, Yonghong Tu and Yu Wang
Luo & Sun: Interplay of Market Forces and Regulatory Framework in the US Credit Card Industry (.doc)(Chinese)
Luo & Sun: Interplay of Market Forces and Regulatory Framework in the US Credit Card Industry (.doc)(Truncated Translation)
Steven Stern
Professor
"Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality,"with Michael Brien and Lee Lillard
"Estimating Disabled People's Demand for Specialized Transportation," with Peter Bearse, Shiferaw Gurmu, and Carol Rapaport
"Long-Term Care, Formal Home Health Care, and Informal Care," (.pdf) with David Byrne, Michelle Goeree, and Bridget Hiedemann
"Approximate Solutions to Stochastic Dynamic Programs,"
"Simulation-Based Estimation,"
"Strategic Play Among Family Members when Making Long-Term Care Decisions,"with Bridget Hiedemann
"The Effect of Education Programs on Paratransit Demand of People with Disabilities" with James Fitzgerald and Donna Shaunesey
"A Test of Lazear's Mandatory Retirement Model," with Petra Todd
"The Length of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin
"Long-Term Care and Family Bargaining,"with Maxim Engers
"Survival Models of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten-Year Perspective," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin
"Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents," with Tennille Checkovich.