MIKE VO

Research

Publications

1. When to degrade a product: The utility-to-cost ratio rule.
   Economics Letters, Volume 255, 2025, Article 112577.
2. Harnessing Human Mobility Data for Applied Economic Research: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities.
   Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan.
   Journal of Economic Surveys, forthcoming.
3. Evaluating Precision, Privacy, and Representation with Cell Phone Data: Evidence from Cape Cod Beaches.
   Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan.
   Land Economics, accepted.

Working Papers

1. Endogenous Product Return Policies and Consumer Welfare.
   Second-round R&R at International Journal of Industrial Organization.
2. Price-Directed Search and Collusion: How Easier Search for Product Information Can Stabilize Cartels.
3. Directed Search, Frictions, and Tacit Collusion: A Computational Experiment.
   Joint with Joe Nguyen.
4. The Impact of Texas Senate Bill 8 on Family Care Utilization: Evidence from Large-Scale Mobility Data.
   Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, Debarchana Ghosh, and Xibo Wan.

Work in Progress

1. Beyond Supermarkets: Measuring the Impact of Food Environment on Healthy Store Utilization.
   Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan.
2. Estimating Structural Models with Privacy-Protected Data: A Correction for Bias in Large-Scale Mobility Data.
   Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan.

Teaching