Working Papers

The Sequential Search Model: A Framework for Empirical Research (with Raluca Ursu and Elisabeth Honka)
Last updated: October 2022

Flexible Demand Estimation with Search Data (with Tomomichi Amano and Andrew Rhodes)
Revise and resubmit at Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Last updated: May 2022


Publications

Identifying State Dependence in Brand Choice: Evidence from Hurricanes (with Julia Levine)
Marketing Science (forthcoming).

Optimal Price Targeting (with Adam Smith and Ishant Aggarwal) 
Marketing Science (forthcoming).

Estimation of Preference Heterogeneity in Markets with Costly Search (with Ilya Morozov, Xiaojing Dong, and Liwen Hou) 
Marketing Science, September 2021, 40(5), pp. 871-899.

The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects (with Anna Tuchman and Song Yao)
Journal of Marketing Research, February 2021, 58(1), pp. 22-49.
Finalist, Paul E. Green Award for the Best Paper Published in JMR in 2021

Does Online Word-of-Mouth Increase Demand? (and How?) Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Song Yao and Wenbo Wang) 
Marketing Science, December 2017, 36(6), pp. 838-861.

The Impact of Advertising along the Conversion Funnel (with Song Yao) 
Quantitative Marketing and Economics, September 2017, 15(3), pp. 241-278.
Runner-up, Dick Wittink Award, 2018

Multi-Category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing (with Øyvind Thomassen, Howard Smith and Pasquale Schiraldi)
American Economic Review, August 2017, 107(8), pp. 2308-2351.

Estimating Search Benefits from Path-Tracking Data: Measurement and Determinants (with Fabio Pinna) 
Marketing Science, July 2017, 36(4), pp. 565-589

Free to Choose? Reform, Choice and Consideration Sets in the English National Health Service (with Martin Gaynor and Carol Propper)
American Economic Review, November 2016, 106(11), pp. 3521-3557.
Kenneth J. Arrow Award for the Best Paper in Health Economics in 2016

Cumulative Growth in User-Generated Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia (with Aleksi Aaltonen) 
Management Science, July 2016, 62(7), pp. 2054-2069.

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (with Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper and John Van Reenen)
Review of Economic Studies, April 2015, 82(2), pp. 457-489.

The Impact of Search Costs on Consumer Behavior: A Dynamic Approach
Quantitative Marketing and Economics, June 2013, 11(2), pp. 155-203 (Lead article).
Dick Wittink Award, 2014



Other Publications

Causal Inference in Word-of-Mouth Research: Methods and Results (with Song Yao and Georgios Zervas)
in preparation for Customer Analytics for Maximum Impact: Academic Insights and Business Use Cases, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), edited by S. Seetharaman.

Advancing Non-Compensatory Choice Models in Marketing (with Anocha Aribarg, Thomas Otter, Daniel Zantedeschi, Greg M. Allenby, Taylor Bentley, David J. Curry, Marc Dotson, Ty Henderson, Elisabeth Honka, Rajeev Kohli, Kamel Jedidi and Xin (Shane) Wang)
Customer Needs and Solutions, March 2018,  5(1-2), pp. 82-92.

Comments on "Costly Search and Considerations Sets in Storable Goods Markets" by Tiago Pires
Quantitative Marketing and Economics, September 2016, 14(3), pp. 197-200. 

In Defence of our Research on Competition in England's National Health Service  (with Nicholas Bloom, Zack Cooper, Martin Gaynor, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones, Alistair McGuire, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Carol Propper, John Van Reenen)
The Lancet, December 2011, 378(9809), pp. 2064 – 2065.