Working Papers

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
Updated September 2023
With Greg Lewis
Conditionally Accepted: Econometrica

Choices and Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
VoxEU Article
Updated July 2023
With Nikhil Agarwal and Paulo Somaini
Revise and Resubmit: Econometrica

Information Externalities, Free Riding, and Optimal Exploration in the UK Oil Industry
Updated October 2021
Revise and Resubmit: Review of Economic Studies

 

Publications

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

Disclosure and Strategic Experimentation in Drug Development
With Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer, and Zhichun Wang

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

Heterogeneity in Vertical Foreclosure: Evidence from the Chinese Film Industry
With Shilong Sun

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

 

Contact:

87 Trumbull Street

charles.hodgson@yale.edu

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