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VICTOR STANGO, Associate Professor of Business Administration

 

Working Papers (click title to download/view):

"Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets" (with Chris Knittel), revise and resubmit, International Journal of Industrial Organization.

"The Productivity Benefits of IT Outsourcing," (with Chris Knittel). July 2007.

"Fuzzy Math, Disclosure Regulation and Credit Market Outcomes" (with Jon Zinman). November 2007.

"The Price is Not Right (Not Even on Average): Exponential Growth Bias, Present-Biased Perceptions and Household Finance," (with Jon Zinman). April 2008. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Finance.

        Click here to read a recent Wall Street Journal Article about the two papers above.

 

 

Publications:

"Compatibility, Product Attributes and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from ATMs" (with Chris Knittel), forthcoming, B.E. Press Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy.

"How Does Incompatibility Affect Prices? Evidence from ATMs" (with Chris Knittel), forthcoming, Journal of Industrial Economics.

"Credit Cards," (with Julian Wright), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, forthcoming.

“The Economics and Strategy of Standards and Standardization” (with Shane Greenstein), in Scott Shane (ed.), Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management: Blackwell, Oxford, UK, forthcoming.

"Standards and Public Policy," (ed., with Shane Greenstein) Cambridge Press, 2006.

“The Causes of Bargaining Failure: Evidence from Major League Baseball” (with Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino), Journal of Law and Economics XLVII(2), October 2004: 543-568.

“Ask Prices, Offers and Time-to-Sale in an Online Exchange” (with Amy Farmer), Economic Inquiry 42(1), January 2004: 14-28.

"The Economics of Standards Wars," Review of Network Economics 3(1), March 2004: 1-19.

“Price Ceilings, Focal Points, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from Credit Cards” (with Chris Knittel), American Economic Review 93(5), December 2003: 1703-1729.

“Strategic Responses to Regulatory Threat in the Credit Card Market,” Journal of Law and Economics XLVI (2), October 2003: 427-452.

"Pricing with Consumer Switching Costs: Evidence from the Credit Card Market,” Journal of Industrial Economics 50(4), December 2002: 475-492.

“Competition and Pricing in the Credit Card Market,” Review of Economics and Statistics 82(3), August 2000: 499-508.

“Environmental Regulation as an Entry Barrier for Small Manufacturing Establishments: A Longitudinal Examination,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40, 2000: 56-75. (with Tom Dean and Robert Brown).

“Ranking Graduate Programs by Graduate Publications,” Economic Inquiry 38(2), April 2000, 358-367. (with Jeffery T. Collins and Richard G. Cox).

“The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Composition of Consumer Debt,” National Tax Journal LII (4) December 1999, 717-739.

 

 

Other:

"Standards and Public Policy," in the 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Annual Report.

"Outsourcing, Firm Size and Product Complexity" (with Yukako Ono), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives.

"The Economics of Standards: Public Policy and Market Performance" (with Carrie Jankowski), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Fed Letter, August 2004.