David Byrne

An Experimental Study of Monthly Electricity Demand (In)elasticity

David P Byrne, Andrea La Nauze, Leslie A Martin

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Energy Journal

We document substantial rigidity in household electricity demand in response to large price shocks. We partnered with an electrici..

Consumer Search and Income Inequality

David P Byrne, Leslie A Martin

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Industrial Organization

The big nudge: here’s how the government could spread its coronavirus tracing app far, fast and wide

David Byrne, Joshua Miller, Richard Holden

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

The government’s tracing app, COVIDSafe, is off to a flying start, with over 1 million downloads within hours of launch. But what ..

Supplying Slot Machines to the Poor

David Byrne, Melisa Bubonya

Journal article  |  2020  |  Southern Economic Journal

As gambling becomes increasingly accessible worldwide, governments face an important policy question: how should they exploit the ..

Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity

David Byrne, Leslie Martin, Jia Sheen Nah

Report  |  2019

We use a field experiment to study price discrimination in a market with price posting and negotiation. Motivated by concerns that..

Startup Search Costs

David Byrne, Nicolas de Roos

Report  |  2019

Workhorse economic models used for studying the market impacts of search frictions assume constant search costs: individuals pay t..

Gasoline Pricing in the Country and the City

David P Byrne

Journal article  |  2019  |  Review of Industrial Organization

In many markets, prices adjust quickly when costs rise, yet adjust sluggishly when costs fall. Such asymmetric pricing has receive..

Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline

D BYRNE, N de Roos

Journal article  |  2019  |  American Economic Review

This paper studies equilibrium selection in the retail gasoline industry. We exploit a unique dataset that contains the universe o..

Australia Has the World's Best Petrol Price Data: FuelWatch and FuelCheck

D Byrne, Jia Sheen Nah, Peng Xue

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Australian Economic Review

This article introduces two retail fuel price databases in Australia, FuelWatch and FuelCheck. Each dataset consists of a complete..

Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Informedness and the Impact of Information Programs

David P Byrne, Andrea La Nauze, Leslie A Martin

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Review of Economics and Statistics

We document how imperfect information generates heterogeneous effects in information treatments with personalized high-frequency f..