Research

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act at Fifty: Thresholds, Serial Acquisitions and Industry Dynamics

with Ginger Zhe Jin, Mario Leccese, Daniel Sokol, and Mengyi Zhong·Competition Policy International, forthcoming

The GDPR and SDK Usage In Android Mobile Apps

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Ziqiao Liu·Journal of Law & Economics, forthcoming

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Policies: Regulatory Overlaps and Economic Tradeoffs

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mengyi Zhong·Network Law Review, 2025

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Surveillance Pricing: A Cautionary Summary of Potential Harms and Solutions

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mengyi Zhong·Competition Policy International, 2025

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Return-to-Office Policies and AI Knowledge Sharing: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

with Elizabeth Durango-Cohen and Yidan Sun·Network Law Review, 2025

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Safety Reviews on Airbnb: An Information Tale

with Aron Culotta, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Yidan Sun·Marketing Science, 45(2), 280–317, 2025

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Trading Off Convenience and Privacy in Social Login

with Jin-Hyuk Kim and Peter Newberry·Economics Letters, 2025

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Can Data Regulation Reshape the Short-Term Rental Market?

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mengyi Zhong·Competition Policy International, 2024

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The Effects of Short-Term Rental Regulation: Insights from Chicago

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mengyi Zhong·International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2024

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Preserving the Institutional Value of the FTC in the Digital Era

with Ginger Zhe Jin·Review of Industrial Organization, 66, 23–42, 2024

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The Law and Economics of Privacy

with Daniel Gilman·UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, 29(2), 2024

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M&A and Technological Expansion

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Mario Leccese·Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 33(2), 338–359, 2024

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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, 2023

★ Finalist, 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards

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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, 288–293, 2023

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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, 97, 2023

★ Winner, 2024 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic Articles, General Antitrust

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Popular Mobile Apps in The Pandemic Era: A Glimpse at Privacy and Competition

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Ziqiao Liu·Competition Policy International, 2022

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Towards A Technological Overhaul of American Antitrust

with Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Sokol·American Bar Association, Antitrust, 37(1), 2022

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State Versus Federal Wiretap Orders: A Look at the Data

with Jason Chan and Jin-Hyuk Kim·International Review of Law & Economics, 70, 2022

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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

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Non-HSR Reported Acquisitions by Select Technology Platforms, 2010-2019: An FTC Study

with the FTC Office of Policy Planning·Federal Trade Commission, 2021

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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

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Data Regulation and Technology Venture Investment: What Do We Learn From GDPR?

with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin·Competition Policy International, 2021

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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment

with Jian Jia and Ginger Zhe Jin·Marketing Science, 40(4), 661–684, 2021

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Big Data at the Crossroads of Antitrust and Consumer Protection

with Ginger Zhe Jin·Information Economics and Policy, 54, 2021

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Consumer Data Rights and Competition – Note by the United States

OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, 2020

Advertising and Voter Data in Asymmetric Political Contests

with Priyanka Sharma·Information Economics and Policy, 52, 2020

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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

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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

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Motivation and Performance of User-Contributors: Evidence from a CQA Forum

with Jed DeVaro, Jin-Hyuk Kim, and Ran Wolff·Information Economics and Policy, 42(1), 56–65, 2018

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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

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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

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The Economics of Privacy

with Alessandro Acquisti and Curtis Taylor·Journal of Economic Literature, 54(2), 442–492, 2016

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Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Financing: A Signaling Perspective

with Jin-Hyuk Kim·Journal of Banking and Finance, 67(1), 12–22, 2016

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Screening Incentives and Privacy Protection in Financial Markets: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

with Jin-Hyuk Kim·RAND Journal of Economics, 46(1), 1–22, 2015

Lead Article

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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

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Marketing Educational Improvements via International Partnerships under Brain-Drain Constraints

with Weslynne Ashton·Education Economics, 23(6), 713–734, 2015

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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

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False-Name-Proof Voting Over Two Alternatives

with Vincent Conitzer·International Journal of Game Theory, 43(3), 599–618, 2014

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Portfolio Size and Information Disclosure: An Analysis of Startup Accelerators

with Jin-Hyuk Kim·Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 520–534, 2014

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Consumer Privacy in Oligopolistic Markets: Winners, Losers, and Welfare

with Curtis Taylor·International Journal of Industrial Organization, 34(1), 80–84, 2014

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Strategic Obfuscation of Production Capacities

with Elizabeth Durango-Cohen·Naval Research Logistics, 61(3), 244–267, 2014

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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

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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

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Choosing Fair Lotteries to Defeat the Competition

with Vincent Conitzer·International Journal of Game Theory, 41(1), 91–129, 2012

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Intellectual Property Protection and Firm Innovation

with Yoni Pruzansky·Economics Bulletin, 31(4), 2922–2932, 2011

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False-Name-Proofness on Social Networks

with Vincent Conitzer, Nicole Immorlica, Joshua Letchford, and Kamesh Mungala·Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 209–221, 2010

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Strategic Betting for Competitive Agents

with Vincent Conitzer·7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 847–854, 2008

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Optimal False-Name-Proof Voting Rules with Costly Voting

with Vincent Conitzer·23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008

★ Outstanding Paper Award|In the proceedings with distinction

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