Publications of James W. Roberts    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds325455,
   Author = {Eliason, PJ and Grieco, PLE and McDevitt, RC and Roberts,
             JW},
   Title = {Strategic Patient Discharge: the Case of Long-Term Care
             Hospitals.},
   Pages = {3232-3265},
   Year = {2018},
   Month = {November},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170092},
   Abstract = {Medicare's prospective payment system for long-term
             acute-care hospitals (LTCHs) provides modest reimbursements
             at the beginning of a patient's stay before jumping
             discontinuously to a large lump-sum payment after a
             prespecified number of days. We show that LTCHs respond to
             the financial incentives of this system by
             disproportionately discharging patients after they cross the
             large-payment threshold. We find this occurs more often at
             for-profit facilities, facilities acquired by leading LTCH
             chains, and facilities colocated with other hospitals. Using
             a dynamic structural model, we evaluate counterfactual
             payment policies that would provide substantial savings for
             Medicare.},
   Doi = {10.1257/aer.20170092},
   Key = {fds325455}
}

@article{fds343587,
   Author = {Li, Y and Mazur, L and Park, Y and Roberts, JW and Sweeting, A and Zhang,
             J},
   Title = {Endogenous and Selective Service Choices after Airline
             Mergers},
   Year = {2018},
   Month = {January},
   Key = {fds343587}
}

@article{fds343588,
   Author = {Garrett, D and Ordin, A and Roberts, JW and Suárez Serrato,
             JC},
   Title = {Tax Advantages and Imperfect Competition in Auctions for
             Municipal Bonds},
   Year = {2017},
   Month = {June},
   Key = {fds343588}
}

@article{fds320614,
   Author = {Bayer, PJ and Mangum, K and Roberts, JW},
   Title = {Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing
             Bubble},
   Journal = {Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid) Working
             Paper},
   Number = {211},
   Pages = {51 pages},
   Year = {2016},
   Month = {February},
   Abstract = {Historical anecdotes of new investors being drawn into a
             booming asset market, only to suffer when the market turns,
             abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset
             bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical
             literature, causal empirical evidence on the topic is
             virtually non-existent. This paper studies the recent boom
             and bust in the U.S. housing market, and establishes that
             many novice investors entered the market as a direct result
             of observing investing activity of multiple forms in their
             own neighborhoods, and that “infected” investors
             performed poorly relative to other investors along several
             dimensions.},
   Key = {fds320614}
}

@article{fds323213,
   Author = {Roberts, JW and Sweeting, A},
   Title = {Bailouts and the preservation of competition: The case of
             the federal timber contract payment modification
             act},
   Journal = {American Economic Journal: Microeconomics},
   Volume = {8},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {257-288},
   Publisher = {American Economic Association},
   Year = {2016},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.20150070},
   Abstract = {We estimate the value of competition in United States Forest
             Service (USFS) timber auctions, in the context of the Reagan
             administration's bailout of firms that faced substantial
             losses on existing contracts. We use a model with endogenous
             entry by asymmetric firms, allowing survivors to respond to
             the exit of bailed-out firms by entering more auctions and
             for these marginal entrants to have lower values than firms
             that would choose to enter in any event, a selective entry
             effect. Observed asymmetries and selective entry contribute
             to us finding that the bailout may have increased USFS
             revenues in subsequent auctions quite substantially.},
   Doi = {10.1257/mic.20150070},
   Key = {fds323213}
}

@article{fds325777,
   Author = {Bayer, PJ and Geissler, C and Mangum, K and Roberts,
             JW},
   Title = {Speculators and Middlemen: The Strategy and Performance of
             Investors in the Housing Market},
   Journal = {Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid) Working
             Paper},
   Number = {93},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {January},
   Key = {fds325777}
}

@article{fds325934,
   Author = {Bhattacharya, V and Roberts, JW and Sweeting, A},
   Title = {Regulating bidder participation in auctions},
   Journal = {The Rand Journal of Economics},
   Volume = {45},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {675-704},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {December},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12067},
   Doi = {10.1111/1756-2171.12067},
   Key = {fds325934}
}

@article{fds325935,
   Author = {Gedge, C and Roberts, JW and Sweeting, A},
   Title = {A Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing with an Application to the
             Airline Industry},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {July},
   Key = {fds325935}
}

@article{fds285766,
   Author = {Mcdevitt, RC and Roberts, JW},
   Title = {Market structure and gender disparity in health care:
             Preferences, competition, and quality of
             care},
   Journal = {The Rand Journal of Economics},
   Volume = {45},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {116-139},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {March},
   ISSN = {0741-6261},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12044},
   Abstract = {We consider the relationship between market structure and
             health outcomes in a setting where patients have stark
             preferences: urology patients disproportionately match with
             a urologist of the same gender. In the United States,
             however, fewer than 6% of urologists are women despite women
             constituting 30% of patients. We explain a portion of this
             disparity with a model of imperfect competition in which
             urology groups strategically differentiate themselves by
             employing female urologists. These strategic effects may
             influence women's health, as markets without a female
             urologist have a 7.3% higher death rate for female bladder
             cancer, all else equal. © 2014, RAND.},
   Doi = {10.1111/1756-2171.12044},
   Key = {fds285766}
}

@article{fds285767,
   Author = {Roberts, JW},
   Title = {Unobserved heterogeneity and reserve prices in
             auctions},
   Journal = {The Rand Journal of Economics},
   Volume = {44},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {712-732},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {December},
   ISSN = {0741-6261},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12038},
   Abstract = {This article shows how reserve prices can be used to control
             for unobserved object heterogeneity to identify and estimate
             the distribution of bidder values in auctions. Reserve
             prices are assumed to be monotonic in the realization of
             unobserved heterogeneity, but not necessarily set optimally.
             The model is estimated using transaction prices from a used
             car auction platform to show that the platform enables
             sellers to capture a large fraction of the potential value
             from selling their vehicle. Individual sellers benefit
             mostly from access to a large set of buyers, but the
             magnitude depends on accounting for unobserved
             heterogeneity. © 2014, RAND.},
   Doi = {10.1111/1756-2171.12038},
   Key = {fds285767}
}

@article{fds285768,
   Author = {Roberts, JW and Sweeting, A},
   Title = {When Should Sellers Use Auctions?},
   Journal = {American Economic Review},
   Volume = {103},
   Number = {5},
   Pages = {1830-1861},
   Publisher = {American Economic Association},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {August},
   ISSN = {0002-8282},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000322878200009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Doi = {10.1257/aer.103.5.1830},
   Key = {fds285768}
}


%% Working Papers   
@article{fds158824,
   Author = {Ben Handel and Kanishka Misra and James W.
             Roberts},
   Title = {Robust Firm Pricing with Panel Data},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {December},
   Key = {fds158824}
}

@article{fds158821,
   Author = {James W. Roberts},
   Title = {Unobserved Heterogeneity and Reserve Prices in
             Auctions},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {November},
   Key = {fds158821}
}

@article{fds164577,
   Author = {J.W. Roberts and Ryan C. McDevitt},
   Title = {Gender Disparity in Urology: Preferences, Competition and
             Quality of Care},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {October},
   Key = {fds164577}
}

@article{fds158822,
   Author = {James W. Roberts},
   Title = {Can Warranties Substitute for Reputations?},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {June},
   Key = {fds158822}
}

@article{fds158825,
   Author = {Seda Ertac and Ali Hortacsu and James W. Roberts},
   Title = {Entry into Auctions: An Experimental Analysis},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {June},
   Key = {fds158825}
}