Hugo M. Mialon

Ph.D. (2004)

Associate Professor  
Department of Economics
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA


 


Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Economics of Crime, Law, and Individual Rights; Economics of Sexual Behavior, Health, and Law; Economics of Antitrust Law and Enforcement;
Economics of Language and Publishing; Economic Theory and Principles of Decision-Making

Publications

1. Torture in Counterterrorism: Agency Incentives and Slippery Slopes, Journal of Public Economics 96(1-2), February 2012, 33-41, with Sue Mialon and Maxwell Stinchcombe

2. The Economics of Faking Ecstasy, Economic Inquiry 50(1), January 2012, 277-285
(Video of presentation at the 2010 Meeting of the American Economic Association)
(Cited in PBS NewsHour, Freakonomics Blog, Financial Post, and Slate Magazine)

3. Dynamic Multi-Activity Contests, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Forthcoming, 2012, with Maria Arbatskaya

4. Multi-Activity Contests, Economic Theory 43(1), April 2010, 23-43, with Maria Arbatskaya

5. Do Sunk Costs Matter?, Economic Inquiry 48(2), April 2010, 323-336, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon

6. Tolerance and HIV, Journal of Health Economics 29(2), March 2010, 250-267, with Andrew Francis
(Cited in New York Times, Marginal Revolution, Examiner, and Science Daily)

7. The Optimal Penalty for Sexually Transmitting HIV, American Law and Economics Review 10(2), Fall 2008, 388-423, with Andrew Francis
(Winner, American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize of 2009)

8. Private v. Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Strategic Analysis, Journal of Public Economics 92(10), Oct. 2008, 1863-1875, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon (Lead article)
(Cited in the impact study for the European Commission of proposed measures to move the European antitrust system closer to a U.S.-style system of mixed private-public enforcement, 2007)

9. The Economics of the Bill of Rights, American Law and Economics Review 10(1), Spring 2008, 1-60, with Paul Rubin (Lead article)

10. Law, Economics, and Individual Rights, London: Routledge, March 2008, edited with Paul Rubin

11. The Effects of the Fourth Amendment: An Economic Analysis, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 24(1), May 2008, 22-44, with Sue Mialon
(Cited in Economic Analysis of Law, Eighth Edition, by R.A. Posner, Aspen, 2010)

12. Judicial Hierarchies and the Rule-Individual Tradeoff, Supreme Court Economic Review 15(1), 2007, 3-20, with Paul Rubin and Joel Schrag (Lead article)

13. Does Large Price Discrimination Imply Great Market Power?, Economics Letters 92(3), Sept. 2006, 360-367, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon

14. Violence Against Women, Social Learning, and Deterrence, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 16(4), Oct. 2006, 367-382, with Sue Mialon

15. Private Antitrust Enforcement: Procompetitive or Anticompetitive?, The Political Economy of Antitrust, Chapter 17, Edited by V. Ghosal and J. Stennek, Elsevier, 2006, with Preston McAfee and Sue Mialon

16. An Economic Theory of the Fifth Amendment, RAND Journal of Economics 36(4), Winter 2005, 833-848
(Cited in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Volume on Procedural Law and Economics, Edited by C. Sanchirico, Chapter on “Self-Incrimination” by A. Stein, Edward Elgar, 2011)
(Cited in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Volume on Criminal Law and Economics, Edited by N. Garoupa, Chapter on “The Economics of Criminal Procedure” by T. Miceli, Edward Elgar, 2009)

17. Sinful Indulgences, Soft Substitutes, and Self-Control, Applied Economics Letters 12 (12), 2005, 719-722, with Sue Mialon  (Lead article)

18. The Impact of Gun Laws: A Model of Crime and Self-Defense, Economics Letters 88(2), 2005, 170-175, with Tom Wiseman

19. What is a Barrier to Entry?, American Economic Review 94(2), May 2004, P&P, 461-465, with Preston McAfee and Michael Williams
(Cited in Handbook of Law and Economics, Volume 2, Edited by M. Polinsky and S. Shavell, Chapter on “Antitrust” by L. Kaplow and C. Shapiro, Elsevier, 2007)
(Cited by competition authorities from 7 different countries in a 21-country policy roundtable on barriers to entry organized by the competition committee of the OECD, 2005)

20. Barriers to Entry in Antitrust Analysis, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence: Droit, Economie, et Regulation 1(1), 2004, 155-157, with Preston McAfee (French version)

Working Papers

On Hatred, 2012, with Tilman Klumpp

Go Figure: The Strategy of Nonliteral Speech, 2012, with Sue Mialon

Crystal Clear? The Relationship Between Methamphetamine Use and Risky Sexual Behavior, 2012, with Erik Nesson and Michael Samuel

In Sickness and in Health: Same-Sex Marriage Bans and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2011, with Andrew Francis and Handie Peng

What's In a Title?, 2011

The Impact of Juvenile Transfer Laws on Juvenile Crime, 2010, with Jacob Cohn

The Effects of the Standard for Search Warrants, 2010, with Sue Mialon

An Empirical Analysis of Sexual Violence, 2005, with Sue Mialon

Scientific Originality, 2005, with Sue Mialon

Work in Progress

The Economics of the First Amendment: Campaign Finance Rules and Political Speech, with Tilman Klumpp and Michael Williams (coming soon!)

The Need for Privacy: If You Have Nothing to Hide, Then What Do You Have to Fear?, with Preston McAfee

Multi-Player Multi-Activity Contests, with Maria Arbatskaya

Marketing Research: The Art of Science