Andrew Sweeting's Research Page

Accepted and Published Papers

"Coordination, Differentiation and the Timing of Radio Commercials", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15(4), Winter 2006

"Market Power in the England and Wales Wholesale Electricity Market 1995-2000", The Economic Journal, 117(520), April 2007

"The Strategic Timing of Radio Commercials: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria", RAND Journal of Economics, 40(4), Winter 2009

"The Effects of Mergers on Product Positioning Evidence from the Music Radio Industry", RAND Journal of Economics, 41(2), Summer 2010
Contains many results from earlier working papers ("Too Much Rock and Roll?" and "Music Variety, Station Listenership,...").

"Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets", Journal of Political Economy, 120(6), December 2012
supplement

"When Should Sellers Use Auctions?", American Economic Review, 103(5), August 2013, with James Roberts

"Dynamic Product Positioning in Differentiated Product Industries: The Effect of Fees for Musical Performance Rights on the Commercial Radio Industry",
Econometrica, 81(5), September 2013
Appendix Code

"Regulating Bidder Participation in Auctions", RAND Journal of Economics 45(4), Winter 2014, with Vivek Bhattacharya and James Roberts

"Multiplicity of Equilibria and Information Structures in Empirical Games: Challenges and Prospects", Marketing Letters, June 2014, with multiple co-authors (Brett Gordon, Paul Ellickson and Ron Borkovsky were the principal organizers)

"Radio", Chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Media Economics, ed., Simon Anderson, Joel Waldfogel and David Strömberg, Elsevier's expected publication date: Fall 2015

"Selective Entry and Auction Design", forthcoming at the International Journal of Industrial Organization, March 2015, based on an invited talk at the EARIE Conference in Milan, August 2014,
with Vivek Bhattacharya

"Bailouts and the Preservation of Competition", forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, July 2015, with James Roberts (slightly revised version of NBER WP 16550)
replaces earlier paper "Competition versus Auction Design"
, July 2011, with James Roberts
earlier version of interest: December 2010

Papers Currently Under Review or Revision



On-going Projects
Please ask if you want more details about these projects.

"Staggered vs. Simultaneous Price Setting with an Application to an Online Market", with Kane Sweeney (preliminary)
"A Model of Dynamic, Non-Stationary Price Competition on a Platform", email for draft
The Potential Entry Defense in Airline Mergers", with James Roberts
"An Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing with an Application to The Airline Industry", with Chris Gedge and James Roberts

“Competition and Dynamic Revenue Management in a Perishable Goods Market”, with Chung-Ying Lee and James Roberts, being substantially revised with much better data
"Dynamic Mechanism Choice in Perishable Goods Markets", email for draft
"Ad Targetting", with Carl Mela and John Singleton