Research

If you have trouble accessing any published or unpublished work, please contact me for a copy.

Working papers:

Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods, with Gautam Gowrisankaran, February 2009

Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions, with Ginger Jin, September 2009.

Publications:

Mehta, A., Rysman, M and Simcoe T. (in press) Identifying the Age Profile of Patent Citations: New Estimates of Knowledge Diffusion, Journal of Applied Econometrics.

De Stefano, M. and Rysman, M. (in press). Competition Policy as Strategic Trade with Differentiated Products. Review of International Economics. (web supplement)

Rysman, M. (2009). The Economics of Two-Sided Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23, 125-144. [via ProQuest] [via Informs] [via Ingenta]

Rysman, M. & Simcoe, T. (2008). Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations. Management Science, 54, 1920-1934. [via ProQuest] [via Informs]

Greenstein, S. & Rysman, M. (2007). Coordination Costs and Standard Setting: Lessons from 56K Modems. In S. Greenstein & V. Stango (Eds.), Standards and Public Policy. Cambridge University Press. 123-159.  Also: CSIO Working Paper #56, Northwestern University. December, 2004 (This paper is a case study of the 56K modem case at the ITU, which relies heavily on telephone interviews of participants.)

Rysman, M., (2007). An Empirical Analysis of Payment Card Usage. Journal of Industrial Economics 55, 1-36. [via Blackwell]

Augereau, A., Greenstein, S. & Rysman, M. (2006). Coordination versus Differentiation in a Standards War:  The Adoption of 56K Modems. RAND Journal of Economics 37, 887-909.. [via ABI/Inform] [via Wilson Web]

Ackerberg, D., & Rysman, M. (2005). Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects.  RAND Journal of Economics 36, 771-788. [via ABI/Inform] [via WilsonWeb]  (web supplement)     

Busse, M., & Rysman, M. (2005). Competition and Price Discrimination in Yellow Pages Advertising. RAND Journal of Economics, 36, 378-390. [via ABI/Inform] [via WilsonWeb]

Rysman, M. & Greenstein, S. (2005). Testing for Agglomeration and Dispersion. Economics Letters,  86, 405-411. [via ScienceDirect]

Rysman, M. (2004). Competition Between Networks: A Study of the Market for Yellow Pages. Review of Economic Studies, 71, 483-512.[via Blackwell] [via ABI/Inform]

Rysman, M. (2001). How Many Franchises in a Market? International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19, 519-542. [via ScienceDirect]

Working projects:

Discrete Adjustment Costs, Investment Dynamics, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants, with Olga Fuentes and Simon Gilchrist

Rysman, M. (2003). Adoption Delay in a Standards War.   (A theoretical paper analyzing the hypothesis put forth in Augereau, Greenstein and Rysman)

Competition Policy as Strategic Trade,  July 2001.     (Algebra for Lemma 6)  This paper has a few citations so I leave it here, but it is largely superseded by the paper with De Stefano available above.