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 Interest
Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design, Quantitative Marketing
Methods: Structural Estimation, ML, Big Data & Privacy
Publications
When to degrade a product: The utility-to-cost ratio rule, Economics Letters, September 2025.
Harnessing Human Mobility Data for Applied Economic Research: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities (with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan), Accepted at The Journal of Economic Surveys.
Working Papers
Endogenous Product Return Policies and Consumer Welfare, R&R at The International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Evaluating Precision, Privacy, and Representation with Cell Phone Data: Evidence from Cape Cod Beaches (with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan), R&R at Land Economics.
The Search Cost Paradox: How Easier Search for Product Fit Stabilizes Collusion.
Directed Search, Frictions, and Tacit Collusion: A Computational Experiment (with Joe Nguyen).
The Impact of Texas Senate Bill 8 on Family Care Utilization: Evidence from Large-Scale Mobility Data (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 (with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan).
Estimating Structural Models with Privacy-Protected Data: A Correction for Bias in Large-Scale Mobility Data (with Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, and Xibo Wan).