I thank the NSF (SES-0242031 and 0449625), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the NET Institute, and the John M. Olin Foundation for their financial support of my research.

Publications

( Google Scholar listing)

1) Winner's Curse,Reserve Prices and Endogenous Entry: Empirical Insights from eBay (.pdf) (with Pat Bajari ) RAND Journal of Economics , Summer 2003, pp. 329-355. Hal Varian graciously mentioned this paper in his New York Times column .

2) Product Differentiation, Search Costs and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds (.pdf) (with Chad Syverson ), Quarterly Journal of Economics , v.119, May 2004, p.403-456.

3) Are Structural Estimates of Auction Models Reasonable? Evidence from Experimental Data (.pdf) (with Patrick Bajari ), Journal of Political Economy , v. 113, Aug. 2005, 703-741.

4) Economic Insights from Internet Auctions (.pdf) (with Patrick Bajari), Journal of Economic Literature , v.42, June 2004, p. 457-486.

5) Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices (.pdf) (with Chad Syverson), Journal of Political Economy , May 2007.

6) Understanding Strategic Models of Bidding in Deregulated Electricity Markets: A Case Study of ERCOT (.pdf) (with Steve Puller), forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics .

7) Cyberspace Auctions and Pricing Issues: A Survey of Empirical Findings (.pdf) (with Pat Bajari), in the New Economy Handbook .

8) On the Empirical Content of Quantal Response Equilibrium (.pdf) (with Philip Haile and Grigory Kosenok ), American Economic Review, March 2008, 98(1), 180-200.

Papers in Submission and Working Papers

1) Mechanism Choice and Strategic Bidding in Divisible Good Auctions: An Empirical Analysis of the Turkish Treasury Auction Market (.pdf)

2) Matching and Sorting in Online Dating (.pdf) (with Guenter Hitsch and Dan Ariely)

3) What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences in Online Dating (.pdf) (with Guenter Hitsch and Dan Ariely). We are currently revising this paper to focus on preference estimation. We have expanded on the matching part of this paper in "Matching and Sorting in Online Dating," available above. Here's the link to Hal Varian's NY Times column on this paper.

4) Order Flow and the Formation of Dealer Bids in Treasury Auctions (.pdf) (with Samita Sareen).

5) Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay (.pdf) (with Luis Cabral)

6) E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries (with Onsel Emre and Chad Syverson) (.pdf) .

7) The Geography Trade on eBay and MercadoLibre (with Asis Martinez-Jerez and Jason Douglas) (.pdf) .

8) Bidding Behavior in Divisible Good Auctions: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Turkish Treasury Auctions. (.pdf)

9) Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant Level Evidence (with Chad Syverson) (.pdf) .