Publications
- “Safety Reviews on Airbnb: An Information Tale,” with Aron Culotta, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Yidan Sun, Marketing Science, forthcoming.
- “Trading Off Convenience and Privacy in Social Login,” with Jin-Hyuk Kim and Peter Newberry, Economics Letters, forthcoming.
- “The Effects of Short-Term Rental Regulation: Insights from Chicago,” with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mengyi Zhong, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
- “Preserving the Institutional Value of the FTC in the Digital Era,” with Ginger Zhe Jin, Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
- “The Law and Economics of Privacy,” with Daniel Gilman, UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, forthcoming.
- “M&A and Technological Expansion,” with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mario Leccese, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 33(2), 338-359, 2024.
- “How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy,” with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mario Leccese, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 89, 2003. Finalist, 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards.
- “M&A and Innovation: A New Classification of Patents,” with Zhaoqi Cheng, Ginger Zhe Jin, Mario Leccese, and Dokyun Lee, American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, 113: 288-93, 2023.
- “Cost-Benefit Analysis Without the Benefits or the Analysis: How Not to Draft Merger Guidelines,” with Luke Froeb and Daniel Sokol, Southern California Law Review, 2023. Winner, 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic Articles, General Antitrust.
- “Popular Mobile Apps in The Pandemic Era: A Glimpse at Privacy and Competition,” with Ginger Zhe Jin and Ziqiao Liu, Competition Policy International, 2023.
- “Towards A Technological Overhaul of American Antitrust,” with Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Sokol, American Bar Association, Antitrust, 37(1), 2022.
- “State Versus Federal Wiretap Orders: A Look at the Data,” with Jason Chan and Jin-Hyuk Kim, International Review of Law & Economics, 70, 2022.
- “Non-HSR Reported Acquisitions by Select Technology Platforms, 2010-2019: An FTC Study,” with FTC Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, 2021.
- “The Persisting Effects of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on Technology Venture Investment,” with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin, American Bar Association's Antitrust Source, 2021.
- “Data Regulation and Technology Venture Investment: What Do We Learn From GDPR?,” with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin, Competition Policy International, 2021.
- “Local Network Effects in the Adoption of a Digital Platform,” with Jin-Hyuk Kim, Peter Newberry, and Ran Wolff, Journal of Industrial Economics, 70(3), 493-524, 2022.
- “The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment,” with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin, Marketing Science, 40(4), 593-812, 2021.
- “Big Data at the Crossroads of Antitrust and Consumer Protection” with Ginger Zhe Jin, Information Economics and Policy, 54, 2021.
- “Advertising and Voter Data in Asymmetric Political Contests” with Priyanka Sharma, Information Economics and Policy, 52, 2020.
- “Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-a-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb” with Jian Jia, Journal of Law and Economics, 63(4), 729-761, 2020.
- “The Impact of Access to Consumer Data on the Competitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers and Exclusive Dealing” with Jin-Hyuk Kim and Abraham Wickelgren, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(3), 373-391, 2019.
- “User Motivation and the Effects of Multitasking: An Analysis of an Online CQA Forum” with Jed DeVaro, Jin-Hyuk Kim, and Ran Wolff, Information Economics and Policy, 42(1), 56-65, 2018.
- “Can Restricting Property Use Be Value Enhancing? Evidence from Short-Term Rental Regulation” with Jin-Hyuk Kim and Tin Cheuk Leung, Journal of Law and Economics, 60(2), 309-333, 2017.
- “Outsourcing in Place: Should a Retailer Sell Its Store-Brand Factory?,” with Elizabeth Durango-Cohen and Candace Yano, IISE Transactions, 49(4), 442-459, 2017. Best Paper Award.
- “The Economics of Privacy” with Alessandro Acquisti and Curtis Taylor, Journal of Economic Literature, 54(2), 442-492, 2016.
- “Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Financing: A Signaling Perspective,” with Jin-Hyuk Kim, Journal of Banking and Finance, 67(1), 12-22, 2016.
- “Screening Incentives and Privacy Protection in Financial Markets: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” with Jin-Hyuk Kim, RAND Journal of Economics, Lead Article, 46(1), 1-22, 2015.
- “The 80/20 Rule: Corporate Support for Innovation by Employees,” with Silvana Krasteva and Priyanka Sharma, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 38, 32-43, 2015.
- “Marketing Educational Improvements via International Partnerships under Brain-Drain Constraints,” with Weslynne Ashton, Education Economics, 23(6), 713-734, 2015.
- “False-Name-Proof Voting Over Two Alternatives,” with Vincent Conitzer, International Journal of Game Theory, 43(3), 599-618, 2014
- “Portfolio Size and Information Disclosure: An Analysis of Startup Accelerators,” with Jin-Hyuk Kim, Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 520-534, 2014.
- “Inducing Knowledge Sharing in Teams through Cost-Efficient Compensation Schemes,” with Arjun Chakravarti and Chaohua He, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 13(1), 71-90, 2015.
- “Consumer Privacy in Oligopolistic Markets: Winners, Losers, and Welfare,” with Curtis Taylor, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 34, 80-84, 2014
- “Strategic Obfuscation of Production Capacities,” with Elizabeth Durango‐Cohen, Naval Research Logistics, 61(3), 244-267, 2014
- “Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets: An Application to the US Mortgage Market,” with Jeremy Burke and Curtis Taylor, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4(4), 65-106, 2012
- “Hide and Seek: Costly Consumer Privacy in a Market with Repeat Purchases” with Vincent Conitzer and Curtis Taylor, Marketing Science, 31(2), 277-292, 2012
- “Choosing Fair Lotteries to Defeat the Competition,” with Vincent Conitzer, International Journal of Game Theory, 41(1), 91-129, 2012
- “Intellectual Property Protection and Firm Innovation,” with Yoni Pruzansky, Economics Bulletin, 31(4), 2922-2932, 2011
- “False-Name-Proofness on Social Networks,” with Vincent Conitzer, Nicole Immorlica, Joshua Letchford, and Kamesh Mungala, in the proceedings of the Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2010
- “Strategic Betting for Competitive Agents,” with Vincent Conitzer, in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008
- “Optimal False-Name-Proof Voting Rules with Costly Voting,” with Vincent Conitzer, in the proceedings with distinction of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Outstanding Paper Award, 2008
Select Recent Working Papers (see CV for a more complete list)
- “Platform as a Rule Maker: Evidence from Airbnb's Cancellation Policies,” with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin
- “How Does Privacy Regulation Affect Transatlantic Venture Investment? Evidence from GDPR,” with Jian Jia, Mario Leccese, and Ginger Zhe Jin
- “The Differential Effects of Privacy Protections and Digital Ad Taxes on Publisher and Advertiser Profitability,” with Priyanka Sharma and Yidan Sun
- “More or Less Data? Information Acquisition in Asymmetric Elections,” with Priyanka Sharma