Jihye Jeon

jihye Jeon

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Boston University. My research field is Industrial Organization.

Curriculum Vitae

jjeon@bu.edu

Boston University
Department of Economics
270 Bay State Road, Room 554
Boston, MA 02215

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RESEARCH

Working Papers

Patient Costs and Physicians’ Information (with Michael J. Dickstein and Eduardo Morales) [November, 2025]

Revision requested, American Economic Review.

Investment and Usage of the Subsea Internet Cable Network (with Marc Rysman) [October, 2025]

International Trade in Data on the Subsea Internet Cable Network (with Marc Rysman) [July, 2025]

Revision requested, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market (with Zach Brown, Mark Egan, Chuqing Jin, and Alex Wu) [May, 2024]

Publications

Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice (with Zach Y. Brown)

Econometrica, 92(3), 881-911 (2024).

Learning and Investment under Demand Uncertainty in Container Shipping 

RAND Journal of Economics, 53(1), 226-259 (2022). Code

Product Proliferation under Rational Inattention: Application to Health Insurance (with Zach Y. Brown)

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111, 554-559 (2021).

A Computational Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Auctions: The Market Impact of Information Sharing (with John Asker, Chaim Fershtman, and Ariel Pakes)

RAND Journal of Economics, 51(3), 805-839 (2020).

Firms’ Beliefs and Learning: Models, Identification, and Empirical Evidence (with Victor Aguirregabiria)

Review of Industrial Organization, 56(2), 203-235 (2020).

TEACHING

Empirical Industrial Organization (PhD)

Industrial Organization (Master's)

Market Structure and Economic Performance (Undergraduate)