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Matthew Panhans

Economist

Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
Phone
(202) 326-2707
Email Address

Selected Publications

  • "Vertical Integration in a Sequential Model of a Supply Chain with Bargaining," BE Working Paper Series, 2024.
  • "Implied Market Shares and Antitrust Markets as Fuzzy Sets," with  Jennifer S. Jhun, Antitrust Bulletin, 2024.
  • "The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of the Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023.
  • "Consequences of Model Choice in Predicting Horizontal Merger Effects," with Charles Taragin, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2023.
  • "Why do Narrow Network Plans Cost Less?," with Eli Liebman, Health Economics, 2021.
  • "Theory in Closer Contact with Industrial Life: American Institutional Economists on Competition Theory and Policy," with Reinhard Schumacher, Journal of Institutional Economics, 2021.
  • "Prices for Medical Services Vary Within Hospitals, but Vary More Across Them," with Ted Rosenbaum and Nathan Wilson, Medical Care Research and Review, 2021.
  • "Economics at the FTC: Fertilizer, Consumer Complaints, and Private Label Cereal," with Andrew Sweeting, David Balan, Nicholas Kreisle, and Devesh Raval, Review of Industrial Organization, 2020.
  • "Adverse Selection in ACA Exchange Markets: Evidence from Colorado," American Economic Journal: Applied, 2019.
  • "The Empirical Economist's Toolkit: From Models to Methods," with John Singleton, History of Political Economy, 2017.

Education

Duke University
PhD, Economics
Duke University
MA, Economics
University of Notre Dame
BA, Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Industrial Organization
  • Health Economics
  • History of Economics

Professional Experience

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2017-Present

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