Research
In progress
Mergers in which price and quality are set by bargaining (with David J. Balan), May 2025
Merger efficiencies and price effects in differentiated Cournot oligopoly, July 2022
Publications
Common Ground or Political Football: The Role of Guidelines in Merger Analysis (with Loren Smith and Nathan Wilson), The Antitrust Source, 2025
Economics in the 2023 Merger Guidelines: Three Areas of Concern (with Loren Smith and Nathan Wilson), in US Merger Guidelines : A Review, S. Sullivan (ed.), in collaboration with the CCIA, Concurrences, 2024
New DOJ-FTC Merger Guidelines: Opportunities and Strategies for Merging Parties (with Koren W. Wong-Ervin), CPI Columns, January 2024
Lethality and deterrence in affairs of honor: The case of the Antebellum U.S. South (with Tom Ahn and Paul Shea), Rationality and Society, forthcoming (online appendix)
New Merger Guidelines Should Keep the Consumer Welfare Standard (with Mark Israel and Jonathan Orszag), Competition Policy International, November 2022
Upward pricing pressure in mergers of capacity-constrained firms (with Daniel Greenfield), Economic Inquiry, 59 (4), pp. 1723-1747, 2021
Evaluating Mergers and Divestitures: A Casino Case Study (with F. David Osinski), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 37 (2), pp. 239-277, 2021
Analyzing Vertical Mergers: Accounting for the Unilateral Effects Tradeoff and Thinking Holistically About Efficiencies (with Roger D. Blair, Christine S. Wilson, D. Daniel Sokol, and Keith Klovers), George Mason Law Review, 27 (3), 2020
Recalibrating the dialogue on welfare standards: Reinserting the total welfare standard into the debate (with Christine S. Wilson and Thomas J. Klotz), George Mason Law Review, 26 (5), 2020
Economics at the FTC: Quantitative analyses of two chemical manufacturing mergers (with Daniel Greenfield, Bruce Kobaysashi, Christopher Taylor, and Nathan Wilson), Review of Industrial Organization, 55 (4), pp. 607-623, 2019
The role of capacity in antitrust analysis (with Seth Sacher), Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 12 (4), pp. 661-700, 2016
Employer discrimination and market structure: Does more concentration mean more discrimination? (with Josh Ederington), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 48, pp. 1-33, 2016, Online appendix
Familiarity and decision making: The unclear role of noise in accept/reject decisions (with Chun-Hui Miao), Southern Economic Journal, 81 (4), pp. 1062-1073, 2015
A note on bubbles and worthless assets: The curious case of General Motors, (with Tom Ahn and Paul Shea), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 18 (1), pp. 244-254, 2014
Real estate pricing under two-sided asymmetric information (with Paul Shea), Theoretical Economics Letters, 3 (4), pp. 220-225, 2013
Competition and endogenous impatience in credence good markets, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 169 (3), pp. 531-565, 2013
Optimal setting of point spreads, (with Paul Shea), Economica, 80 (317), pp. 149-170, 2013
Experts and quacks, RAND Journal of Economics, 41 (1), pp. 199-214, 2010
The Effects of Ethnic Capital and Age of Arrival on the Standard of Living of Young Immigrants, (with Michael Seeborg), The Journal of Economics, 29, pp. 27-48, 2003
The Assimilation of Immigrants Who Arrived in the United States as Children, with Michael Seeborg, Journal of Business and Economic Research, 1 (3), pp. 27-35, 2003