Publications of James W. Roberts

Journal Articles

  1. Garrett, D; Ordin, A; Roberts, JW; Suárez Serrato, JC, Tax Advantages and Imperfect Competition in Auctions for Municipal Bonds, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 90 no. 2 (March, 2023), pp. 815-851, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  2. Eliason, PJ; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW, Physicians as Owners and Agents-A Call for Further Study., Jama Internal Medicine, vol. 182 no. 12 (December, 2022), pp. 1276-1277
  3. League, RJ; Eliason, P; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW; Wong, H, Assessment of Spending for Patients Initiating Dialysis Care., Jama Network Open, vol. 5 no. 10 (October, 2022), pp. e2239131
  4. Bhattacharya, V; Ordin, A; Roberts, JW, Bidding and Drilling under Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis of Contingent Payment Auctions, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 130 no. 5 (May, 2022), pp. 1319-1363
  5. Cerullo, M; Yang, K; Joynt Maddox, KE; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW; Offodile, AC, Association Between Hospital Private Equity Acquisition and Outcomes of Acute Medical Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries., Jama Network Open, vol. 5 no. 4 (April, 2022), pp. e229581
  6. Li, S; Mazur, J; Park, Y; Roberts, J; Sweeting, A; Zhang, J, Repositioning and market power after airline mergers, The Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 53 no. 1 (March, 2022), pp. 166-199
  7. League, RJ; Eliason, P; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW; Wong, H, Variability in Prices Paid for Hemodialysis by Employer-Sponsored Insurance in the US From 2012 to 2019., Jama Network Open, vol. 5 no. 2 (February, 2022), pp. e220562
  8. Cerullo, M; Yang, KK; Roberts, J; McDevitt, RC; Offodile, AC, Private Equity Acquisition And Responsiveness To Service-Line Profitability At Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals., Health Affairs, vol. 40 no. 11 (November, 2021), pp. 1697-1705
  9. Sweeting, A; Roberts, JW; Gedge, C, A model of dynamic limit pricing with an application to the airline industry (March, 2020), pp. 1148-1193
  10. Eliason, PJ; Heebsh, B; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW, How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 135 no. 1 (February, 2020), pp. 221-267
  11. Bayer, P; Geissler, C; Mangum, K; Roberts, JW, Speculators and middlemen: The strategy and performance of investors in the housing market (January, 2020), pp. 5212-5247, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  12. Eliason, PJ; Grieco, PLE; McDevitt, RC; Roberts, JW, Strategic Patient Discharge: the Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals. (November, 2018), pp. 3232-3265
  13. Li, Y; Mazur, L; Park, Y; Roberts, JW; Sweeting, A; Zhang, J, Endogenous and Selective Service Choices after Airline Mergers (January, 2018)
  14. Bayer, P; Mangum, K; Roberts, JW, Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid), vol. 111 no. 211 (February, 2016), pp. 51 pages
  15. Roberts, JW; Sweeting, A, Bailouts and the preservation of competition: The case of the federal timber contract payment modification act, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 8 no. 3 (January, 2016), pp. 257-288, American Economic Association
  16. Bayer, PJ; Geissler, C; Mangum, K; Roberts, JW, Speculators and Middlemen: The Strategy and Performance of Investors in the Housing Market, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid) Working Paper no. 93 (January, 2015)
  17. Bhattacharya, V; Roberts, JW; Sweeting, A, Regulating bidder participation in auctions, The Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 45 no. 4 (December, 2014), pp. 675-704, WILEY
  18. Mcdevitt, RC; Roberts, JW, Market structure and gender disparity in health care: Preferences, competition, and quality of care, The Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 45 no. 1 (March, 2014), pp. 116-139, WILEY, ISSN 0741-6261
  19. Roberts, JW, Unobserved heterogeneity and reserve prices in auctions, The Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 44 no. 4 (December, 2013), pp. 712-732, WILEY, ISSN 0741-6261
  20. Roberts, JW; Sweeting, A, When Should Sellers Use Auctions?, American Economic Review, vol. 103 no. 5 (2013), pp. 1830-1861, American Economic Association, ISSN 0002-8282

Working Papers

  1. Ben Handel, Kanishka Misra, and James W. Roberts, Robust Firm Pricing with Panel Data (December, 2009)
  2. James W. Roberts, Unobserved Heterogeneity and Reserve Prices in Auctions (November, 2009)
  3. with Ryan C. McDevitt, Gender Disparity in Urology: Preferences, Competition and Quality of Care (October, 2009)
  4. James W. Roberts, Can Warranties Substitute for Reputations? (June, 2009)
  5. Seda Ertac, Ali Hortacsu, and James W. Roberts, Entry into Auctions: An Experimental Analysis (June, 2009)