Working Papers (Chronological Order)
Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand - Revised and Resubmitted at Rand Journal of Economics
[Updated--11/16/20; Joint with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson ]
Improving Estimates of Transitions from Satellite Data: A Hidden Markov Model Approach -- Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics
[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]
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
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
Review of Industrial Organization (2016), 479(4), 613-631