Research

Effects of Home Rental Sites on Residential Real Estate: Evidence from New Hampshire
with Glenn Ellison
April 2024

Internet Matching Technologies and the Geographic Distribution of Chess Skills
with Maren Young
December 2022

Regulatory Distortion: Evidence from Uber’s Entry Decisions in the US
with Haldun Anil
September 2022

Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists | Data Appendix
with Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, and Glenn Ellison
April 2020

Cost of Managerial Attention and Activity as a Source of Sticky Prices: Structural Estimates from an Online Market | Appendix
with Christopher M. Snyder and Hongkai Zhang
October 2016

Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books
Sara Fisher Ellison and Glenn Ellison
September 2014

An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information
Sara Fisher Ellison and Christopher Snyder

Gradual Incorporation of Information into Stock Prices: An Empirical Study of Informed Trading
Sara Fisher Ellison and Wallace Mullin
October 2007

Internet Technology and its role in the Price of Concert Tickets
Sara Fisher Ellison
Competition Policy International, forthcoming.

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease  
Sara Fisher Ellison (with Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Thomas Clark, and Glenn Ellison)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(4) 79-104, 2020

Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists 
Sara Fisher Ellison (with Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Thomas Clark, and Glenn Ellison)
Covid Economics (CEPR Press), pp 21-68, May 2020

Search and Obfuscation in a Technologically Changing Retail Environment: Some Thoughts on Implications and Policy
Sara Fisher Ellison (with Glenn Ellison)
NBER Innovation Policy and The Economy, 6, pp 1-25, Volume 18, editors Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 2018.

Price Search and Obfuscation: An Overview of the Theory and Empirics
Sara Fisher Ellison
Handbook on the Economics of Retailing and Distribution, Chapter 12, 287-305, March 2016

Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm
Sara Fisher Ellison and Wallace Mullin
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 23, Number 2, 465-481, Summer 2014

Strategic Entry Deterence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (3)1 1-36, 2011

Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals
Sara Fisher Ellison and Christopher Snyder
Journal of Industrial Economics, 58(1) 32-53, 2010

Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preference in Internet Purchasing
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
American Economics Journal: Economic Policy, 1(2) 53-71, 2009

Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
Econometrica, 77(2) 427-452, 2009

Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet (Supplement)
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
October 2007

Coordinating on Lower Prices: Pharmaceutical Pricing Under Political Pressure
Sara Fisher Ellison and Catherine Wolfram
RAND Journal of Economics, 37(2) 324-340, 2006

Lessons About Markets  from the Internet
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(2) 139-158, 2005

Gradual Incorporation of Information: Pharmaceutical Stocks and the Evolution of Healthcare Reform 
Sara Fisher Ellison and Wallace Mullin
Journal of Law and Economics, 44(1) 89-129, 2001

A Simple Framework for Nonparametric Specification Testing
Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
Journal of Econometrics, 96(1) 1-23, 2000

The Economics of Antibiotics
Sara Fisher Ellison and Judith Hellerstein
Chapter 4 in Jack Triplett (ed)
Measuring Prices of Medical Treatments
Brookings Institution Press, pp. 118-143, 1999

Characteristics of Demand for Pharmaceutical Products: An Exploration of Four Cephalosporins
Sara Fisher Ellison, Iain Cockburn, Zvi Griliches and Jerry Hausman
RAND Journal of Economics, 28(3) 426-446, 1997

Economics and Politics: The Case of Sugar Tariff Reform 
Sara Fisher Ellison and Wallace Mullin
Journal of Law and Economics, 38(2)335-366, 1995

Entry for “Industry,” World Book Encyclopedia, 2013.

Entry for “The Pharmaceutical Industry,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2008.

“Alternative Academic Careers,” CSWEP Newsletter, 2006.

“The Future of E-Retail,” Technology Insider, 2000.

Review of “Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy,” by Schweitzer, Journal of Economic Literature, 36(3), 1521-1522, 1998.