Aaron Barkley

The Human Cost of Collusion: Health Effects of a Mexican Insulin Cartel

Aaron Barkley

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of the European Economic Association

Abstract Despite recent attention to the role of competition in determining health outcomes in developed nations, l..

Price effects of calling out market power: A study of the COVID-19 oil price shock

Aaron Barkley, David P Byrne, Xiaosong Wu

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

Governments often make public announcements that call into question firms' misuse of market power. Yet little is known about how f..

Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger

Aaron Barkley, Kael Mcleod

Journal article  |  2022  |  REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS

This paper uses consolidation in the barge shipping industry to investigate the efficiencies generated by mergers in congested tra..

Cost and Efficiency in Government Outsourcing: Evidence from the Dredging Industry

Aaron Barkley

Journal article  |  2021  |  AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS

This paper investigates the how government outsourcing affects efficiency and expenditures by considering how outsourcing decision..

Bidding frictions in ascending auctions

A Barkley, JR Groeger, RA Miller

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Econometrics

This paper develops an approach for identifying and estimating the distribution of valuations in ascending auctions where an indet..