Working Papers

Disclosure and the Pace of Drug Development
Updated October 2025
With Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer, and Zhichun Wang

Heterogeneity in Vertical Foreclosure: Evidence from the Chinese Film Industry
Updated October 2025
With Shilong Sun
Promarket Article

Order Statistics as Finite Mixtures
Updated August 2025
With José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and Kevin O’Neill

Information Externalities, Free Riding, and Optimal Exploration in the UK Oil Industry
Updated October 2024
Revise and Resubmit: Review of Economic Studies
Theory Note

Publications

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
With Greg Lewis
Econometrica, 2025, 93(4), 1299-1332

Choices and Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
With Nikhil Agarwal and Paulo Somaini
Econometrica, 2025, 93(2), 395-438
VoxEU Article, MIT News

Trade-ins and Transaction Costs in the Market for Used Business Jets
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023, 15(4), 350-391

The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on the Location of Economic Activity: Railroads and Post Offices in the American West
Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 59-76

Research in Progress

Manipulating Priority in Deceased Donor Heart Allocation
With Nikhil Agarwal, Paulo Somaini, and Kurt Sweat

Dynamic Oligopoly with a Managerial Labor Market: Ships and Captains in 19th Century American Whaling

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

 

Contact:

87 Trumbull Street

charles.hodgson@yale.edu

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