In this paper we study mergers in two-sided industries. While mergers have been studied extensively in traditional industries, and there is a large and rapidly evolving literature on two-sided markets, there has been little work empirically examining mergers in these markets. We present a model...

This paper seeks to establish the importance of targeted advertising in media markets. Using zip-code level circulation for US daily newspapers, I show that newspapers facing more competition have lower circulation prices but higher advertising prices than similar newspapers facing little or no...

The first chapter of this dissertation examines the incidence of tax credits for hybrid vehicles in the United States. A variety of state and federal tax incentives have been used to subsidize gas-electric hybrid vehicles. I estimate the incidence of these tax incentives using microdata on sales...