Research interests

CV: PDF

Working papers:

18. Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models via Convex Analysis (with Khai Chiong and Alfred Galichon) PDF.

17. Identifying Treatment Effects under Data Combination (with Yanqin Fan and Bob Sherman). PDF. Substantially revised version of #12 below.

16. From the Lab to the Field: the Design and Performance of an Information Aggregation Mechanism Inside Intel (with Ben Gillen and Charlie Plott). PDF.

15. Words Get in the Way? Partial Identification of a Strategic Deliberation Model (with Matias Iaryczower and Xiaoxia Shi). PDF.

14. Simple Two-Stage Inference for a Class of Partially Identified Models (with Xiaoxia Shi) PDF. Revise and resubmit.

13. Efficiency and Bargaining Power in the Interbank Loan Market (with Jason Allen, James Chapman, and Federico Echenique) PDF.

12. Partial Identification in an Ecological Inference Model (with Yanqin Fan and Bob Sherman) PDF. Superseded by "Identifying Treatment Effects under Data Combination" (see #17 above).

11. A Field Experiment of Jump Bidding in Online Automobile Auctions (with David Grether and David Porter) PDF. Revision submitted.

10. Money in Judicial Politics: Individual Contributions vs. Collective Decisions (with Matias Iaryczower) PDF. Submitted.

9 . Is Advertising Informative? Evidence from Contraindicated Drug Prescriptions (with Guofang Huang and Wei Tan). PDF.

8. Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Demand Models with Interactive Fixed Effects (with Roger Moon and Martin Weidner, USC) PDF. Revision submitted.

7. Aggregate Matchings (with Federico Echenique and SangMok Lee). PDF. Superseded by "The Revealed Preference Theory of Stable and Extremal Stable Matchings" (below).

6. Superstition and "Lucky" Apartments: Evidence from Transaction-level Data (with Wei Sun and Guangliang Ye, Renmin University of China) PDF. Revise and resubmit.

5. Identification and Estimation of Online Price Competition with an Unknown Number of Firms (with Yonghong An, Mike Baye, Yingyao Hu, and John Morgan) PDF. Revise and resubmit.

4. A Simple Estimator for Dynamic Models with Serially-Correlated Unobservables (with Yingyao Hu and Wei Tan) PDF. Revise and resubmit.

3. Market Makers in Chittagong Tea Auctions: the Role of Trust and Reputation (with Tanjim Hossain and Fahad Khalil) PDF.

2. Identifying Dynamic Games with Serially-Correlated Unobservables (with Yingyao Hu). PDF

1. Nonparametric Tests for Common Values in First-Price Auctions (with Phil Haile and Han Hong). PDF. NBER working paper #10105. Revise and resubmit

Publications:

28. Nonparametric Learning Rules from Bandit Experiments: the Eyes have It! (with Yingyao Hu and Yutaka Kayaba) PDF. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 81, pp. 215-231 (September 2013).

27. When Do Secondary Markets Harm Firms? (with Jiawei Chen and Susanna Esteban). PDF. Supplementary material here. (Previously titled "How Much Competition is a Secondary Market?") Amusing typo. Forthcoming, American Economic Review.

26. Identification of First-Price Auction Models with Non-Separable Unobserved Heterogeneity (with Yingyao Hu and David McAdams). PDF. Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 174, pp. 186-193 (June 2013).

25. To Elect or to Appoint? Bias, Information, and Responsiveness of Bureaucrats and Politicians (with Matias Iaryczower and Garrett Lewis). PDF. Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 97, pp. 230-244 (January 2013).

24. Nonparametric Identification of Dynamic Models with Unobserved State Variables (with Yingyao Hu). PDF. Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 171, pp. 32-44 (November 2012).
Online appendix: PDF

23. The Revealed Preference Theory of Stable and Extremal Stable Matchings (with Federico Echenique, SangMok Lee, and M. Bumin Yenmez). PDF. Econometrica, Vol. 81, pp. 153-171 (January 2013).
Supplementary material here.

22. The Value of Information in the Court: Get it Right, Keep it Tight (with Matias Iaryczower, Princeton). PDF. American Economic Review, Vol. 102, pp. 202-237 (February 2012).
Data files (in zip directory) here.

21. The Money Pump as a Measure of Revealed Preference Violations (with Federico Echenique and SangMok Lee) PDF. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 119, pp. 1201-1223 (December 2011).
Stanford Basket Dataset in gzipped tarball here (see "README" and "iri.doc" for information about data files).

20. Estimating First-Price Auctions with an Unknown Number of Bidders: a Misclassification Approach (with Yonghong An and Yingyao Hu) PDF. Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 157, pp. 328-341 (2010).

19. Do Sales Tax Credits Stimulate the Automobile Market? (with J. Chen and S. Esteban). PDF International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 28, pp. 397-402 (2010).

18. Estimating a Tournament Model of Intra-firm Wage Differentials (with Jiawei Chen) PDF Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 155, pp. 39-55 (2010).

17. Pairwise-Difference Estimation of a Dynamic Optimization Model (with Han Hong). PDF Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 77, pp. 273-304 (2010).

16. Do Mergers Improve Information? Evidence from the Loan Market (with F. Panetta and F. Schivardi) PDF. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 41, pp. 673-709 (2009).

15. Estimation Biases of Omitting Durability (with Jiawei Chen and Susanna Esteban). PDF Journal of Econometrics, Vol 147, pp. 247-257 (2008).

14. Durable Goods Oligopoly with Secondary Markets: the Case of Automobiles (with Susanna Esteban). PDF. RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, pp. 332-354 (2007).
Table of summary statistics of data, and auxiliary parameter estimates (in PDF format) available here.

13. Likelihood Ratio Model Selection Tests between Parametric and Moment Condition Models (with X. Chen and H. Hong). PDF Journal of Econometrics, 141: 109-140 (2007).

12. Detecting Information Pooling: Analysts' Forecasts After Brokerage Firm Mergers (with Serena Ng). PDF. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1, Article 60 (2007).

11. Nonlinear Pricing with Self-Control Preferences (with S. Esteban and E. Miyagawa). PDF Journal of Economic Theory, 135: 206--338 (July 2007).

10. Monopoly Quality Degradation in Cable Television (with G. Crawford). PDF. Journal of Law and Economics, 50: 181-219 (February 2007).

9. Using Price Distributions to Estimate Search Costs (with Han Hong). PDF. RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 37, no. 2 (Summer 2006). Press coverage: Minneapolis Star-Tribune

8. Uncertainty and Learning in Pharmaceutical Demand (with Greg Crawford). PDF. Econometrica, 73: 1137-1174 (July 2005).

7. An Empirical Model of Learning and Spillovers in New Drug Entry (with Andrea Coscelli) PDF Journal of Econometrics, 122: 213-246 (October 2004).

6. Does Advertising Overcome Brand Loyalty? Evidence from Breakfast Cereals. PDF Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 13: 241-272 (Summer 2004).

5. Rates of Information Aggregation in Common Value Auctions (with H. Hong). PDF Journal of Economic Theory, 116: 1-40 (May 2004).

4. Empirical Likelihood-Based Model Selection Criteria for Moment Condition Models (with H. Hong and B. Preston). PDF Econometric Theory, 19:923-943 (December 2003).

3. Econometric Models of Asymmetric Ascending Auctions (with Han Hong). PDF Journal of Econometrics, 112: 327-358 (February 2003)

2. Increasing Competition and the Winner's Curse: Evidence from Procurement (with Han Hong). PDF Review of Economic Studies, 69: 871-898 (October 2002)

1. Structural Estimation of Auction Models (with H. Hong). PDF Appeared in Game Practice: Contributions from Applied Game Theory, edit. Patrone, Garcia-Jurado, Tijs (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).

Work in Progress

4. Nonparametric Estimation of Demand Elasticities (with Stefan Hoderlein)

3. Partial Identification of Matching Models (with Federico Echenique and SangMok Lee)

2. Model Selection under Partial Identification: Testing Competition vs. Collusion in Telecom Entry (with Roger Moon, Xiaoxia Shi, and Simon Wilkie)

1. Semiparametric Estimation of Production Functions: a Spectral Decomposition Estimator (with Yingyao Hu and Fabiano Schivardi)

Unpublished manuscripts

1. The Welfare Effects of Endogenous Quality Choice: The Case of Cable TV (with G. Crawford). PDF