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Associate Professor Department of Economics Texas A&M University Email: puller@econmail.tamu.edu
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research |
3046 Allen College Station, TX 77843-4228 Phone: (979) 845-7349
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FIELDS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
"Efficient Retail Pricing in Electricity and Natural Gas Markets" with Jeremy West, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming. Paper in PDF
"Price Discrimination by Day-of-Week of Purchase: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry" with Lisa Taylor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 84: 801-812, 2012. Paper in PDF
"Do More Diverse Environments Increase the Diversity of Subsequent Interaction? Evidence from Random Dorm Assignment" with Sara Baker and Adi Mayer, Economics Letters, 110(2): 110-112, February 2011. Paper Link
"Estimation of Competitive Conduct When Firms are Efficiently Colluding: Addressing the Corts Critique", Applied Economics Letters, 16: 1497-1500, 2009. Paper in PDF
"Understanding Strategic Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions: A Case Study of the Texas Electricity Spot Market" with Ali Hortacsu, RAND Journal of Economics, 39(1): 86-114, Spring 2008. Paper in PDF
"The Effect of Auction Format on Efficiency and Revenue in Divisible Goods Auctions: A Test Using Korean Treasury Auctions" with Boo-Sung Kang, Journal of Industrial Economics, 56(2): 290-332, June 2008. Paper Link
"The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses" with Adi Mayer, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 92, pp. 329-347, February 2008. Paper Link
"The Effects of Government Transfers on Monthly Cycles in Drug Abuse, Hospitalization and Mortality" with Carlos Dobkin, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, pp. 2137-2157, December 2007. Paper Link
"Pricing and Firm Conduct in California's Deregulated Electricity Market", Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(1): 75-87, February 2007. Paper Link
"The Strategic Use of Innovation to Influence Regulatory Standards", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 52, pp. 690-706, November 2006. Paper Link
"Household Adjustment to Gasoline Price Change: An Analysis Using Nine Years of U.S. Survey Data" with Lorna Greening, Energy Economics, Vol. 21, pp. 37-52, February 1999. Paper Link
BOOK CHAPTERS
"A Primer on Electricity and the Economics of Deregulation" with James M. Griffin, Electricity Deregulation: Choices and Challenges, Griffin and Puller, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Draft
"Competitive Performance of the ERCOT Wholesale Market" in Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story, Kleit and Kiesling, eds., Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2009.
WORKING PAPERS
"Power to Choose: An Analysis of Consumer Behavior in the Texas Retail Electricity Market" with Ali Hortacsu and Seyed Ali Madanizadeh. (revision coming soon)
"Does Scarcity Drive Intra-Route Price Dispersion in Airlines?" with Anirban Sengupta and Steve Wiggins, November 2012. Paper in PDF
"Behavioral Responses to Increased Household Fuel Economy: Regression Discontinuity Evidence" with Jeremy West, Mark Hoekstra, and Jonathan Meer.
"Who Responds to Electricity Prices? New Evidence on Demand Response by Large Customers" with Cesar Cancho.
"Tools for Assessment of Bidding into Electricity Auctions" with Ross Baldick, PSERC Publication 8-24, October 2008. Paper in PDF
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Do Firms Respond to Market Based Environmental Instruments? Evidence from Bidding Behavior in Electricity Markets" with Erin Mansur. Abstract
"Consumer Response to Airport Delays" with Panle Jia and Brad Larsen.