I am an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. I study the economics of competition and other topics in industrial organization using a combination of theory and data.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Research Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
- Microeconomics
- Antitrust and Competition Policy
Current Research
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
(with T. Deryugina and J. Reif)
[NBER Working Paper 23483]
Accepted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Demand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition
(with N. H. Miller)
Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions
[Job Market Paper]
An Empirical Model of Consumer Affiliation and Dynamic Price Competition
(with M. Remer)
The Empirical Effects of Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
(with D. A. Smith)
Publications
Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM (with D. A. Smith), Review of Industrial Organization. 2017.
Bias in Reduced-Form Estimates of Pass-Through (with N. H. Miller, M. Remer, and G. Sheu), Economics Letters. 2014.
Research Page
References
- Ali Hortaçsu (chair)
- Brent Hickman
- Casey Mulligan
- Chad Syverson