Merger simulation is a complex exercise and is difficult to implement during merger
assessment due to data and time requirements. We use data from an online experiment to …

This dissertation studies the economic forces that determine prices in business-to-business
health care markets. Health care is a large fraction of the US economy. In US health care …

Pesticides primarily benefit humans in terms of protection of food production, prevention of
diseases, and weed control, but also potentially harm people and the environment. Given …

Outdoor air pollution is one of the most detrimental issues to human health, and has
triggered massive concern in many cities globally. Due to the public nature of the good …

Understanding various micro-decisions of travelers (eg, choice of vehicles, travel modes, or
destinations) is of utmost importance in travel demand modeling. After the first application of …

This paper aims at better understanding passenger valuation of subway crowding in New
York City. To this end, we conducted a stated preference survey with a discrete choice …

This paper evaluates how the route overlapping feature affects the stochastic assignment
paradox by comparing the multinomial logit (MNL) model and two path-size logit (PSL) …

Variational Bayes (VB) methods have emerged as a fast and computationally-efficient
alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for scalable Bayesian estimation …