I am a staff economist with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The views expressed in the materials on this site those of myself and my co-authors, and do not represent the views of the Federal Trade Commission or of any individual Commissioner.
Economics of Hospitals
Simulating Hospital Merger Simulations (with Keith J. Brand), Unpublished Draft (2009)
In recent years, researchers have developed a number of new methods for predicting the price...
I'm as Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take This Anymore: On Indignation and Health Care, Unpublished Draft (2008)
This paper begins with the idea that patients become “indignant” when they are denied care...
Economics of Morality
The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and its Effect on Economic Performance, Unpublished Draft (2009)
In this paper, I incorporate morality (defined as aversion to making one’s living through appropriative...
Industrial Organization
Collusion and the "Old Boys Club" (with Manfred A. Dix), Submitted to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2009)
This paper begins with the assumption that collusion can be sustained by means of sincere...
Labor Economics
Job Insecurity isn't Always Efficient (with Dan Hanner), Unpublished Draft (2008)
Workers value job security. If at least some workers value it enough, then it is...
Media Economics
Ideological Persuasion in the Media (with Patrick DeGraba and Abraham L. Wickelgren), Submitted to the Journal Economic Behavior & Organization (2009)
Media outlet owners can modify their outlet’s content so as to persuade audiences to adopt...