MIKE VO
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Economics and Data Science
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Ratcliffe Hicks Arena, Unit 108, Storrs, CT 06269
University of Connecticut
Email: mike.vo@uconn.edu
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory
Methods: Applied Econometrics, Game Theory
Publications
When to degrade a product: The utility-to-cost ratio rule.
Economics Letters, Volume 255, 2025, Article 112577.
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.
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
Endogenous Product Return Policies and Consumer Welfare.
Second-round R&R at International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Directed Search, Frictions, and Tacit Collusion: A Computational Experiment.
Joint with Joe Nguyen.
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
Beyond Supermarkets: Measuring the Impact of Food Environment on Healthy Store Utilization.
Joint with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan.
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.