Austan Goolsbee

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Professor

5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (37)

Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-23
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Aug 2002
Austan Goolsbee and Judith A. Chevalier
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads 1,841 (19,263)
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Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

NBER Working Paper No. w9085
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee and Judith A. Chevalier
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads 225 (282,153)
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Sep 1999
Austan Goolsbee and Jonathan L. Zittrain
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
Downloads 1,464 (27,306)
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce

National Tax Journal, Fall 1999
Posted: 13 Sep 1999
Austan Goolsbee and Jonathan L. Zittrain
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Harvard Law School

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Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry

KSG Working Paper No. 00-007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Dec 2000
Jeffrey R. Brown and Austan Goolsbee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 1,025 (45,956)
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Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?

NBER Working Paper No. w7996
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Nov 2000 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
Jeffrey R. Brown and Austan Goolsbee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, June 2002
Posted: 17 Jul 2002
Jeffrey R. Brown and Austan Goolsbee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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COVID-19 Lockdown Policies at the State and Local Level

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-116
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Sep 2020
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 943 (52,399)
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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-80
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Jun 2020
Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 920 (54,227)
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Economists' Statement on U.S. Broadband Policy

AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 06-06-01
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Mar 2006
New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Business & Public Policy Department, Institute for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Technology Policy Institute, Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University, Clemson University, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Stanford University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgetown University Law Center, University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group, School of Information, Technology Policy Institute, Kansas State University - Department of Economics and Institute for Business Innovation
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In a World Without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Feb 1999
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 445 (135,659)
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In a World Without Borders: the Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

NBER Working Paper No. w6863
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Sep 2000
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 164 (378,347)

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How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry on Their Networks? Evidence from the Major Airlines

NET Institute Working Paper No. 04-04
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Nov 2004
Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 468 (129,105)
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Coveting Thy Neighbor's Manuafacturing: The Dilemma of State Income Apportionment

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 May 1999
Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Downloads 168 (370,416)
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Coveting Thy Neighbor's Manuafacturing: the Dilemma of State Income Apportionment

NBER Working Paper No. w6614
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022
Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-95, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-13, Initiative on Global Markets Paper No. 171
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 28 May 2020
Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 206 (308,324)
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How Prevalent is Tax Arbitrage? Evidence from the Market for Municipal Bonds

NBER Working Paper No. w9105
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Aug 2002 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2022
Merle Erickson, Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Downloads 129 (461,937)

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How Prevalent is Tax Arbitrage? Evidence from the Market for Municipal Bonds

NBER Working Paper No. w9105
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Merle Erickson, Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Downloads 66 (720,621)
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling: Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2018-35
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Jun 2018
Austan Goolsbee and Peter J. Klenow
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads 193 (327,476)
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The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable Television

NBER Working Paper No. w8317
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
Austan Goolsbee and Amil Petrin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Minnesota - Duluth
Downloads 167 (372,701)
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Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet

NBER Working Paper No. w11995
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee and Peter J. Klenow
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads 161 (384,553)
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What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation

NBER Working Paper No. w6333
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 151 (406,238)
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What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, Issue 2, April 2000
Posted: 16 Mar 2000
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks

NBER Working Paper No. w11421
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Judith A. Chevalier and Austan Goolsbee
Yale School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 131 (454,756)
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The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w9090
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Aug 2002
Austan Goolsbee and Jonathan Guryan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program
Downloads 125 (471,723)
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8888
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Austan Goolsbee and Alan B. Krueger
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section
Downloads 112 (512,779)
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The Impact and Inefficiency of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from State Organizational Form Data

NBER Working Paper No. w9141
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Sep 2002 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 101 (552,807)
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Taxes, High-Income Executives, and the Perils of Revenue Estimation in the New Economy

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 May 2000
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 101 (552,807)

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Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers?

NBER Working Paper No. w6532
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 101 (557,746)
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Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers?

American Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 2, May 1998
Posted: 28 Sep 1999
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Competition in the Computer Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w8351
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 95 (575,549)

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How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

NBER Working Paper No. w11072
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2005
Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 94 (579,539)
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Investment Tax Incentives, Prices, and the Supply of Capital Goods

NBER Working Paper No. w6192
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 88 (603,543)
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Taxes, Organizational Form, and the Deadweight Loss of the Corporate Income Tax

NBER Working Paper No. w6173
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 85 (616,496)
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The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Loss of Taxing New Technology

NBER Working Paper No. w11994
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 76 (656,775)
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It's Not About the Money: Why Natural Experiments Don't Work on the Rich

NBER Working Paper No. w6395
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers

NBER Working Paper No. w7329
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2022
Austan Goolsbee and Peter J. Klenow
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w7558
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 74 (676,796)
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The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital

National Tax Journal, Vol. 53, Issue 2, June 2000
Posted: 06 Jun 2000
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Taxes and the Quality of Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w6731
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Oct 1998 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 74 (666,498)
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Estimating Adjustment Costs with Data on Heterogeneous Capital Goods

NBER Working Paper No. w6342
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2022
Austan Goolsbee and David B. Gross
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Compass Lexecon
Downloads 53 (787,563)
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Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition from the Internet

NBER Working Paper No. w15612
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2023
Austan Goolsbee, Michael Lovenheim and Joel B. Slemrod
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis and Management and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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The Business Cycle, Financial Performance, and the Retirement of Capital Goods

NBER Working Paper No. w6392
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries: To the Workers Go the Spoils?

NBER Working Paper No. w6526
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries: To the Workers Go the Spoils?

Posted: 28 Sep 1999
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries: To the Workers Go the Spoils?

National Tax Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1, Part 2, p. 153-165, March 2003
Posted: 15 Aug 2003
Austan Goolsbee
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Valuing Internet Retailers: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Yale SOM Working Paper No. ES-29
Posted: 02 Oct 2003
Judith A. Chevalier and Austan Goolsbee
Yale School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Taxes and Organizational Form: The Case of REIT Spin-Offs

National Tax Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, September 2002
Posted: 14 Apr 2003
Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Coveting Thy Neighbor?S Manufacturing: The Dilemma of State Income Apportionment

Journal of Public Economics
Posted: 25 May 1999
Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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