Current Research

• Asymmetric Information Sharing in Oligopoly: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline
  David P. Byrne, Nicolas de Roos, Matthew S. Lewis, Leslie M. Marx, and Xiaosong Wu
  (revisions requested from the Journal of Political Economy)

• Multimarket Contact and Price Discrimination
  Haobin Fan and Matthew S. Lewis

• New Evidence on How Much Electric Vehicles are Driven
  Matthew S. Lewis

Publications

• Consumer Search with Learning in the Retail Gasoline Market
  Xiaosong Wu, Matthew S. Lewis, and Frank A. Wolak
  RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming, 2022.

• Reference Dependence in the Demand for Gasoline
  Laurence Levin, Matthew S. Lewis, and Frank A. Wolak
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 179, May 2022: 561-578. [Working Paper Version]

• Identifying Airline Price Discrimination and the Effect of Competition
  Matthew S. Lewis
  International Journal of Industrial Organization, 78, September 2021. [Working Paper Version]

• On the Absence of Directional Price Discrimination in the U.S. Airline Industry
  Matthew S. Lewis
  Journal of Industrial Economics 68(3), September 2020:556-581. [Working Paper Version]

• High Frequency Evidence on the Demand for Gasoline
  Laurence Levin, Matthew S. Lewis, and Frank A. Wolak
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9(3), August 2017: 314-347. [Final Working Paper Version]
  Earlier working paper version: NBER Working Paper No. 22345
  Related VoxEU Column

• Hospital Systems and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Out-Of-Market Acquisitions
  Matthew S. Lewis and Kevin E. Pflum
  RAND Journal of Economics 48(3), Fall 2017: 579-610. [Working Paper Version]

• Diagnosing Hospital System Bargaining Power in Managed Care Networks
  Matthew S. Lewis and Kevin E. Pflum
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(1), February 2015: 243-274. [Working Paper Version]

• Odd Prices at Retail Gasoline Stations: Focal Point Pricing and Tacit Collusion
  Matthew S. Lewis
  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 24(3), Fall 2015: 664-685. [Working Paper Version]

• Price Leadership and Coordination in Retail Gasoline Markets with Price Cycles
  Matthew S. Lewis
  International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30 (4), July 2012: 342-351. [Working Paper Version]

  • Winner of 2013 Paul Geroski Award for best paper published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization

• When Do Consumers Search?
  Matthew S. Lewis and Howard P. Marvel
  Journal of Industrial Economics, 59 (3), September 2011: 457-483. [Working Paper Version]

• The Speed of Gasoline Price Response in Markets with and without Edgeworth Cycles
  Matthew Lewis and Michael Noel
  Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (2), May 2011: 672-682. [Working Paper Version]

• Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Consumer Search: An Examination of the Retail Gasoline Market
  Matthew S. Lewis
  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 20 (2), Summer 2011: 409-449. [Working Paper Version]
  (Earlier working paper version: CSEM WP #120 (2003))

• Temporary Wholesale Gasoline Price Spikes have Long Lasting Retail Effects: The Aftermath of Hurricane Rita
  Matthew S. Lewis
  Journal of Law and Economics, 52 (3), August 2009: 581-606. [Working Paper Version]

• Price Dispersion and Competition with Differentiated Sellers
  Matthew Lewis
  Journal of Industrial Economics, 56 (3), September 2008: 654-678. [Working Paper Version]