JF Houde's Research Page

   

Research Fields

Industrial Organization, applied econometrics.

Working Papers

Spatial differentiation and vertical contracts in retail markets for gasoline, June 1, 2009. [under revision]

Market structure and the diffusion of e-commerce: Evidence from the retail banking industry, June 30, 2009, (with Jason Allen and Rob Clark). [under revision]

Price controls and market structure: Evidence from gasoline retail markets, September 29, 2009, (with Juan Esteban Carranza and Rob Clark). [in submission]

Explicit and tacit collusion in retail markets, (with Rob Clark). [preliminary draft available upon request] [maps]

Work in Progress

The effect of horizontal mergers on price discrimination in mortgage markets (with Jason Allen and Rob Clark).

Bayesian estimation of games of incomplete information, (with Susumu Imai, Chris Ferrall and Max Pak).

Product adoption and diffusion in the tractor industry between 1920 and 1955 (with Juan Esteban Carranza).