Working Papers (Chronological Order)

Improving Estimates of Transitions from Satellite Data: A Hidden Markov Model Approach -- Under Review
[Updated--7/21/20; Joint with Adrian Torchiana, Paul Scott, and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues ]

How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Perform in Changing Environment? Evidence from Disaster Induced Hospital Closures -- Under Review
 [Updated--3/01/20; Joint with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson ]

Cultural and Geographic Proximity in the United States Automotive Industry - Revise and Resubmit at Economic Inquiry
[Updated--12/4/19]

Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand - Second Round Revise and Resubmit at Rand Journal of Economics
[Updated--8/6/19; Joint with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson ]

Payer Steering and Patient Welfare: Evidence from Medicaid 
​ [Updated--10/16/17; Joint with Devesh Raval]

Where Do Automotive Suppliers Locate and Why? [New Version in Progress]

Academic Publications

 Why is Distance Important for Hospital Choice? Separating Home Bias from Transport Costs  - ​Accepted at the Journal of Industrial Economics
 [Updated--2/11/20 Joint with Devesh Raval]

Prices for Medical Services Vary Within Hospitals, But Vary More Across Them
 [Forthcoming in Medical Care Research and Review; Joint with Matthew Panhans and Nathan Wilson ]

Why Do Previous Choices Matter for Hospital Demand? Decomposing Switching Costs from Unobserved Preferences - Review of Economics and Statistics (2018), 100(5), 906-915

A Semiparametric Discrete Choice Model: An Application to Hospital Mergers (with Devesh Raval and Steven Tenn)
Economic Inquiry (2017), 55(4), 1919-1944

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Published Policy Papers

A Review of the Economic Literature on Cross-Market Healthcare Mergers (with Keith Brand)
Antitrust Law Journal (2019), 82(2), 533-549

Economics at the FTC: Horizontal Mergers and Data Security (with Dan Hanner, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Marc Luppino)
Review of Industrial Organization (2016), 479(4), 613-631