Research Papers

PUBLISHED/FORTHCOMING PAPERS

Song, M. (2007) "Measuring Consumer Welfare in the CPU Market: An Application of the Pure Characteristics Demand Model", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, 429-446.
Kaiser, U. and M. Song (2009) "Do Media Consumers Really Dislike Advertising? An Empirical Assessment of the Role of Advertising in Print Media Markets", International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 27(2), 292-301.
Song, M. (2010) "The Quality Adjusted Price Index in the Pure Characteristics Demand Model", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 28(1), 190-199 (a longer version is available here.)
Song, M. (2011) "A Dynamic Analysis of Cooperative Research in the Semiconductor Industry", International Economic Review, Vol. 52(4), 1157-1177.

WORKING PAPERS

Song, M. (2011) "A Hybrid Discrete Choice Model of Differentiated Product Demand with An Application to PCs", revise and resubmit, RAND Journal of Economics.
Song, M. (2011) "Estimating Platform Market Power in Two-sided Markets with an Application to Magazine Advertising", unpublished manuscript, University of Rochester, under review.
Lucarelli, C., S. Nicholson, and M. Song (2010) "Bundling Among Rivals: A Case of Pharmaceutical Cocktails", unpublished manuscript, University of Rochester, submitted. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 16321. Previously circulated under the title "Sleeping with the Enemy: Inter-firm Product Combinations in the Pharmaceutical Industry."
Horsky, D., P. Pavlidis, and M. Song (2012) "Incorporating State Dependence in Aggregate Brand-level Demand Models", unpublished manuscript, University of Rochester.
Chung, C. and M. Song (2006) "Preference for Cultural Goods: Demand and Welfare in the Korea Films Market", unpublished manuscript, University of Rochester.

WORK IN PROGRESS

A Project on Retail Bank Choices of Merchants and Consumers (with Ozlem Bedre-Defolie)
A Project on Consumer Learning on a Daily-Deal Site (with E. Park, B. Yoo, and S. Jeon)

PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS

Estimating the Pure Characteristics Demand Model: A Computational Note (April 2006)
Cooperative R&D between Heterogeneous Firms (April 2006)

LECTURES for BROADER PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

R&D Collaboration as a Business Strategy, prepared for IEEE Technology Management Council Rochester Chapter Meetings on November 12, 2010.