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Created: September 2009
Updated: March 2015
Pascal
Courty Publications and Citations: Google Scholar Link
I have worked extensively on ticket markets and
ticket resale
Here is a list of my work on
ticket-economics
Here are my
last two papers:
(1) A policy piece on the recent bot
epidemic entitled Ticket
resale, bots, and the fair price ticketing curse and Online appendix
(2) A review of ticket resale in sports
(written for the forthcoming Handbook of Sports Economics) Secondary Ticket Markets
for Sport Events
Recent Research Papers under Review
Online Scarcity Signals: A Bayesian Persuasion Approach (with Sinan Ozel). 2017.
A Pure Hedonic Theory of Utility and Status: Unhappy but Efficient Invidious Comparisons (with Merwan Engineer). 2017.
How Robust is Cason-Plott's Theory of Game Form Misconception? (with Charles Bull, Daniel Rondeau and Maurice Doyon) 2017.
Papers Accepted and Forthcoming:
1. Cultural
Consumption in Major Chinese Cities (with Fenghua Zhang,
Journal of Cultural Economics, Published online 2018).
2. The
Value of Online Scarcity Messages (with
Sinan Ozel). Information Economics and
Policy (with Sinan Ozel). Forthcoming
2018.
3.
Loss
Aversion and the Uniform Pricing Puzzle for Media and Entertainment Products (with Javad Nasiry. Economic Theory (Published Online 2017).
4. Sales,
Quantity Surcharge, and Consumer Inattention. (with Sofronis
Clerides) Review
of Economics and Statistics. 99(2)
2017.
5. Do Fans Care about Compliance to
Doping Regulations in Sports? The Impact of PED Suspension in Baseball (with Jeffrey Cisyk) Journal of Sports
Economics 18(4) 2017.
6. Simultaneous Allocation
of Bundled Goods Through Auctions: Assessing the Case
for Joint Bidding, (with Daniel Rondeau and
Maurice Doyen). 2016 American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 98(3), pages 838-859.
7. Product
Launches and Buying Frenzies: A DynamicPerspective (with Javad Nasiry) Production
and Operations Management, 2016 vol. 25(1), pages 143-152, 01.
8. What is the cost of
retaining and attracting exceptional talents? Evidence
from the Canada Research Chair program . (with John Sim). Canadian Journal of Economics. 2015. 48 (5) 1635-60.
9. Unbundling Truthful
Revelation when Auctioning Bundled Goods. (with Daniel Rondeau
and Maurice Doyon. 2015. Economics Bulletin, vol. 35(4), pages
2512-2517.
10. Pricing Tickets for
Live Events: A Few Principles and Two Tale of Two
Industries. Sport & Entertainment Review. 2015, vol 1, n.2, 35-43.
Older Research Papers and Book
Chapters
Research
Expertise (General bio)
Short video where I discuss my research
My work on
ticket markets (joint with Mario Pagliero) was recently cited in the New
York Times (June 4th 2013), NPR
and the Wall
Street Journal (August 11th 2013, B1, Ticketmaster Wants in on
the Scalping Act)
My work on
grocery shopping (joint with Sofronis Clerides) was cited in therecord.com