Liran Einav: Papers

(To see the papers organized by topic, click here)

WORK IN PROGRESS
 
  • Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets using Variation in Prices, with Amy Finkelstein and Mark Cullen [current draft: July 2008] [pdf file]

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  • Errors in Self-Reported Data: A Cross-Validation of Homescan Data, with Ephraim Leibtag and Aviv Nevo

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  • Not All Rivals Look Alike: Estimating an Equilibrium Model of The Release Date Timing Game  [current draft: June 2003; working (slowly) on a new draft] [pdf file]

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  • Endogenous Participation and Local Market Power in Highway Procurement, with Ignacio Esponda 

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    SUBMITTED PAPERS
     
  • Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets, with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin [current draft: January 2008] [e-mail us for a copy]

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  • The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market, with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf, NBER Working Paper No. 13228, revise and resubmit, Econometrica [current draft: June 2007] [pdf file]

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  • Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas? with Ran Abramitzky and Oren Rigbi, manuscript [current draft: March 2008] [pdf file]

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  • Stock Market Response to Changes in Movies' Opening Dates, with Abraham Ravid, manuscript [current draft: November 2007] [pdf file]

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     PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS
     
  • Production Targets, with Guillermo Caruana
    Rand Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
    Supplement: online appendix (selected quotes from interviews and press)

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  • Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending, with William Adams and Jonathan Levin
    American Economic Review, Forthcoming
    Supplement: online appendix, estimation programs

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  • Discrete Choice Models of Firms' Strategic Decisions, with Michaela Draganska, Sanjog Misra, Victor Aguirregabiria, Pat Bajari, Paul Ellickson, Dan Horsky, Sridhar Narayanan, Yesim Orhun, Peter Reiss, Katja Seim, Vishal Singh, Raphael Thomadsen, and Ting Zhu
    Marketing Letters, Forthcoming

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  • A Theory of Endogenous Commitment , with Guillermo Caruana
    Review of Economic Studies, 75(1), January 2008, 99-116
    Online appendix: description of the main algorithm
    Additional material: examples, algorithm for generic finite two-player games
    Programs: download two-by-two algorithm programs, download programs for generic finite two-player games
    Earlier draft: working paper version with more results

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  • Uniform Prices for Differentiated Goods: The Case of the Movie-Theater Industry, with Barak Orbach
    International Review of Law and Economics, 27(2), June 2007, 129-153
    Featured in The Washington Post (November 24, 2006), and Arizona Daily Star (January 6, 2007)

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  • Estimating Risk Preferences from Deductible Choice, with Alma Cohen
    American Economic Review, 97(3), June 2007, 745-788
    Winner of an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence as one of the 50 best articles published in 2007 in management
    Supplement: online appendix, estimation programs and information about using the data

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  • Seasonality in the U.S. Motion Picture Industry
    Rand Journal of Economics, 38(1), Spring 2007, 127-145
    Previously circulated as "Gross Seasonality and Underlying Seasonality: Evidence fom the U.S. Motion Picture Industry"
    Supplement: raw data, edited and supplemented data

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  • Equilibrium Demand Elasticities across Quality Segments, with Olivier Coibion and Juan Carlos Hallak
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(1), February 2007, 13-30

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  • Multilateral Bargaining with Concession Costs, with Guillermo Caruana and Daniel Quint
    Journal of Economic Theory, 132(1), January 2007, 147-166

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  • Empirical Models of Imperfect Competition: A Discussion, with Aviv Nevo
    in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress, Volume II, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University Press, November 2006, Chapter 3, 86-96 [link to book]
    Supplement: A Note on The Analogies between Empirical Models of Auctions and of Differentiated Product Markets (A related note with more details - but not very polished - that got some citations)

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  • What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success, with Leeat Yariv
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1), Winter 2006, 175-188
    Featured in Forbes (May 22, 2006), The Boston Globe (June 25, 2006), The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 20, 2006), The Washington Monthly (April 13, 2006), and The Washington Post (May 4, 2006)
    Supplement: publications data, faculty data, working paper version with probits and a toy model

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  • Efficient Entry, with Daniel Quint
    Economics Letters, 88(2), August 2005, 278-283

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  • Informational Asymmetries and Observational Learning in Search
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 30(3), June 2005, 241-259
    Supplement: earlier version with more results

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  • Determinants of International Tourism: A Three-Dimensional Panel Data Analysis, with Yair Eilat
    Applied Economics, 36(12), July 2004, 1315-1328

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  • The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities, with Alma Cohen
    Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(4), August 2003, 828-843

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  • Flawed Rankings: A Comment [on Dusansky-Vernon] (comment), with Zvi Griliches
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(4), Fall 1998, 233-235 

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