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If you have trouble accessing any published or unpublished work, please contact me for a copy.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, September 2011, under revision for the Journal
of Political Economy
Estimating Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment, with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Minsoo Park, September 2011
Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions, with Ginger Jin, February 2012. (Mathematica Code for Appendix)
Working projects:
Discrete Adjustment Costs, Investment Dynamics, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants, with Olga Fuentes and Simon Gilchrist
A Structural Model of Network Formation: World Air Services Agreements, with Phil McCalman
Payment Choice: Adoption and Usage, with Sergei Koulayev, Scott Schuh, Joanna Stavins
Publications:
Rysman, M. and Simcoe, T. (in press) A NAASTy Alternative to RAND Pricing Commitments, Telecommunication Policy
Crowe, M., Rysman, M. and Stavins, J. (in press). Mobile Payments in the United States at Retail Point of Sale: Current Market and Future Prospects. Review of Network Economics. (Link to Working Paper version)
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. & Rysman, M. (2010). Competition Policy as Strategic Trade with Differentiated Products. Review of International Economics, 18, 758-771. (link is to working paper version)
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]
Older projects:
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.