JF Houde's Research Page

Research
Fields
Industrial Organization, applied econometrics.
Gasoline markets, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Eds. Palgrave Macmillan.
Spatial
differentiation and vertical mergers in retail markets for gasoline,
April 27, 2011. [Forthcoming, AER]
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, R&R requested from Rand]
Price controls and market structure: Evidence from gasoline retail markets, March 29, 2011 (with Juan Esteban Carranza and Rob Clark). [under revision, R&R requested from Journal of Industrial Economics] (The industry dynamic model appendix is available here).
Collusion between asymmetric retailers: Evidence from a price fixing case in Canada, (with Rob Clark), [under revision, R&R requested from AEJ:Micro]
The impact of explicit communication on pricing: Evidence from the collapse of a gasoline cartel, (with Rob Clark) [under revision]
Discounting in mortgage markets, (with Jason Allen and Rob Clark) [under revision, R&R requested from Journal of Industrial Economics]
Price competition and concentration in decentralized markets: Empirical evidence a merger between canadian mortgage lenders, (with Jason Allen and Rob Clark) [new version!]
Price negotiation in differentiated products markets: The case of insured mortgages in Canada., (with Jason Allen and Rob Clark) [available upon request]
Evaluating economic damages from collusion: A moment inequality approach, (with Robert 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).
Full Identification of the Selection Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity: Explaining the Consumer Credit Card Debt Puzzle (with Jeremy Fox and Amit Gandhi).