Selected working papers
Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
(with J. Akesson, S. Ashworth-Hayes, R. Metcalfe R, and I. Rasooly). NBER
Measuring Welfare in Regulated Markets.
(with R. Metcalfe, and E. Tam) in preparation for AEA meetings.
The real effects of fake reviews: Evidence from a shopping experiment.
(with J. Akesson, R. Metcalfe, M. Monti-Nussbaum, and I. Rasooly)
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber.
(with P. Cohen, J. Hall, R. Metcalfe, and S. Levitt) NBER
The behavioralist as policy designer: The need to test multiple treatments to meet multiple targets.
(with R. Metcalfe and D. Novgorodsky, and M.K. Price) NBER
Selected published papers
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies
(with R. Metcalfe) American Economic Review. 111(5): 1658-1688. 2021
The Economics of Water Security
(with D. Garrick) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 15(1): 45-66. 2021
The Impact of Economic Regulation on Growth: Survey and Synthesis
(with J. Broughel) Regulation and Governance. 1-22. 2020
Transparency in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis
(with C. Cecot) Administrative Law Review. 72(2): 157-206. 2020
Promoting customer engagement: A new trend in utility regulation
(with R. Metcalfe and F. Rundhammer). Regulation and Governance. 2020
(with A. Renda) SSRN. 3022552. 2017
The ridesharing revolution: Economic survey and synthesis
(with R. Metcalfe) More equal by design: economic design responses to inequality. 4. 2017
The Impact of Behavioral Science Experiments on Energy Policy
(with R. Metcalfe) Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, 5(2). 2016
Does the social cost of carbon matter? Evidence from US policy
(with R.A. Ritz) The Journal of Legal Studies, 44(1): 229-248. 2015
(with P. Passell) The Economists’ Voice, 10(1): 29-37. 2013
Understanding the effectiveness of environmental offset policies
(with K. Richards) Journal of Regulatory Economics, 44(1): 103-119. 2013
Assessing Competition in U.S. Wireless Markets: Review of the FCC’s Competition Reports
(with G. Faulhaber and H. Singer) Federal Communications Law Journal, 64(2): 319-369. 2012
The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance
(with R.N. Stavins) The Journal of Law and Economics, 54(4): 267-294. 2011
Government Failure and Market Failure: On the Inefficiency of Environmental and Energy Policy
(with D. Anthoff) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26(2): 197-224. 2010
An Evaluation of Government Efforts to Improve Regulatory Decision Making
International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 3(4): 245-298. 2010
Designing Smarter Regulation with Improved Benefit-Cost Analysis
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 1(1): 2152-2182. 2010
The economics of allowing more U.S. oil drilling
(with P. Passell) Energy Economics, 32(3): 638-650. 2010
Why the iPhone Won’t Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote its Successor
(with H. Singer) Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 8: 313-350. 2010
Addressing the next wave of Internet regulation: Toward a workable principle for nondiscrimination
(with R. Litan and H. Singer) Regulation and Governance, 4(3): 365-382. 2010
A Statement on the Appropriate Role for Research and Development in Climate Policy
(with K.J. Arrow, L. Cohen, P.A. David, C.D. Kolstad, L. Lane, W.D. Montgomery, R.R. Nelson, R.G. Noll, and A.E. Smith) The Economists’ Voice, 6(1): 1-4. 2009
The Benefits and Costs of Ethanol: An Evaluation of the Government’s Analysis
(with C. Cecot) Journal of Regulatory Economics, 35(3): 275-295. 2009
Greenhouse Gas Auctions and Taxes: Some Political Economy Considerations
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(2): 1-22. 2009
An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Strategy
(with S. Wallstern) Policy and Internet, 1(1): 113-137. 2009
The Promise of Prediction Markets
(with K.J. Arrow, R. Forsythe, M. Gorham, R. Hanson, J.O. Ledyard, S. Levmore, R. Litan, P. Milgrom, F.D. Nelson, G.R. Neumann, M. Ottaviani, T.C. Schelling, R.J. Shiller, V.L. Smith, E. Snowberg, C.R. Sunstein, P.C. Tetlock, P.E. Tetlock, H.R. Varian, J. Wolfers, and E. Zitzewitz) Science, 320(5878): 877-878. 2008
(with C. Cecot, A. Renda, and L. Schrefler) Regulation and Governance, 2(4): 405-424. 2008
Better that the Fed Regulates Subprime Mortgages
(with P. Passell) The Economists’ Voice, 5(1). 2008
Assessing Bias in Patent Infringement Cases: A Review of International Trade Commission Decisions
(with H.J. Singer) Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 21(2): 457-508. 2008
Has Economic Analysis Improved Regulatory Decisions?
(with P.C. Tetlock) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(1): 67-84. 2008
The Need for Greater Price Transparency in the Medical Device Industry: An Economic Analysis
(with K.B. Klovers and H.J. Singer) Health Affairs, 27(6): 1554-1559. 2008