Liran Einav: Papers (by topic)


 INSURANCE AND CREDIT MARKETS
 
  • How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under Uncertainty in Different Domains, with Amy Finkelstein, Iuliana Pascu, and Mark Cullen 

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  • Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets, with Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Levin
    Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming in Volume 2, September 2010 

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  • The Impact of Information Technology on Consumer Lending, with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin, revise and resubmit, American Economic Review [current draft: July 2009] [e-mail us for a copy]

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  • Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets using Variation in Prices, with Amy Finkelstein and Mark Cullen
    Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming in Volume 125(3), August 2010
    Supplement: online appendix

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

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  • Optimal Mandates and The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from The U.K. Annuity Market, with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf
    Econometrica, conditionally accepted
    Supplement: estimation programs and a readme file

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  • Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending, with William Adams and Jonathan Levin
    American Economic Review, 99(1), March 2009, 49-84
    Mentioned in The New York Times (January 18, 2009)
    Supplement: online appendix, estimation programs

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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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     STRATEGIC COMMITMENT
     
  • Production Targets, with Guillermo Caruana
    Rand Journal of Economics, 39(4), Winter 2008, 990-1017
    Supplement: online appendix (selected quotes from interviews and press)

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

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     MOTION PICTURES
     
  • Not All Rivals Look Alike: Estimating an Equilibrium Model of The Release Date Timing Game 
    Economic Inquiry, forthcoming

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  • Stock Market Response to Changes in Movies' Opening Dates, with Abraham Ravid
    Journal of Cultural Economics, forthcoming
    Mentioned in The New York Times (July 14, 2009)

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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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  • 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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     OTHER IO'ISH PAPERS
     
  • Endogenous Participation and Local Market Power in Highway Procurement, with Ignacio Esponda

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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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  • 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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     OTHER (NON-IO)
     
  • Recording Discrepancies in Nielsen Homescan Data: Are They Present and Do They Matter?, with Ephraim Leibtag and Aviv Nevo
    Quantitative Marketing and Economics, forthcoming
    Previously circulated as "Not-So-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan"
    Data supplement (that can be used to construct distributions of price measurement errors and use them to correct estimates from Homescan data)
    USDA-ERS report titled "On the Accuracy of Nielsen Homescan Data" (earlier version with more nitty gritty details)

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  • Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas?, with Ran Abramitzky and Oren Rigbi
    Economic Journal, forthcoming
    Featured in Slate Magazine (December 19, 2008)

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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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  • 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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  • 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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     DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS
     
  • 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, 19(3-4), December 2008, 399-416

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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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  • 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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