Research

My research focuses primarily on market price formation and its resulting effect
on consumer welfare, typically using empirical data from internet auctions. I have also
recently ventured into behavioral studies using experimental methods.

• "Markets: Gift Cards," (2007) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21, 227-238.

  
  

• "An Empirical Examination of Competitor-Based Price Matching Guarantees," (2009) joint with Shakun Datta,
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70, 342-360.

  
  

• "Seller Reputation as a Determinant of Price in Online Auctions: Theory and Evidence
  from Gift Card Sales," completed manuscript (2006).

  
  

• "Price Dispersion in Internet Auctions of Retail Gift Cards," joint with Lesley Chiou, under review (2008).

  
  

• "Competition, Teams, and Gender," joint with Andrew Healy (2008).

  
  

• "Cost Asymmetry and Incomplete Information in the Volunteer's Dilemma," joint with Andrew Healy (2008).

  
  

• "Consumer Preference for Convenience, Adoption of Card Reader Technology, and Effect on Sales,"
  joint with Jack Barron and John Umbeck (2005).

  
  

• "Welfare Implications of Gift Cards and the New Market for Store Credit: Theory and Evidence from
  Internet Auctions," completed manuscript (2005).

  
  

• "Trust and Expected Value Bidding Behavior in Internet Auctions," joint with Lesley Chiou, in progress.

  
  

• Contributed "The Consumer Price Index" to the Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics,
  New York: Facts on File, 2008.
  
  
  
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