Areas of Interest

• Partial Identification
• Discrete Choice
• Nonparametric Methods
• Shape Restricted Estimation
• Industrial Organization

Published papers

• Nonparametric analysis of cost complementarities in the telecommunication industry, RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2005, PDF.
• Asymptotic Properties for a Class of Partially Identified Models (with Francesca Molinari (opens in a new tab)): Econometrica, 2008, Vol. 76, No. 4., pp. 763-814, beresteanu_molinari.pdf (NSF grant SES-0617559 is acknowledged).
• Gasoline Prices, Government Support and the Demand for Hybrid Vehicles in the US (with Shanjun Li (opens in a new tab)), International Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp 161-182, February 2011, hybrid.pdf
• Partial Identification Using Random Set Theory (with Ilya Molchanov (opens in a new tab) and Francesca Molinari (opens in a new tab)): Journal of Econometrics, 2012, Vol. 166, issue 1, pages 17-32 PDF; Errata (NSF grant SES-0922373 is acknowledged).
• Sharp Identification Regions in Models with Convex Moment Predictions (with Ilya Molchanov (opens in a new tab) and Francesca Molinari (opens in a new tab), Econometrica, 2011, vol. 79, issue 6, pages 1785-1821 PDF, online appendix (NSF grant SES-0922373 is acknowledged, This paper supersedes three earlier working papers by the same authors: CeMMAP working papers # CWP25/10, CWP27/09 and CWP15/08).
• Efficiency Gains in Rank-ordered Multinomial Logit Models (with Federico Zincenko (opens in a new tab)): Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80(1), 122-134. Older version: Pitt Econ WP 16/018.
• Quantile regression with interval data (with Yuya Sasaki (opens in a new tab)), Econometrics Reviews, Vol.40, Issue 6, Pages: 562-583. arXiv WP 1710.0757 (opens in a new tab), R code and Data by Yuya.

Working Papers

• Identification of Incomplete Preferences (with Luca Rigotti (opens in a new tab)) arXiv:2108.06282 (opens in a new tab) (Current version: October 2025). Video: 07:46 minutes summary
• Dynamic Competition in Oligopolistic Markets (with Paul Ellickson (opens in a new tab), Sanjog Misra (opens in a new tab) and James C Reeder, III (opens in a new tab)) SMdynamics.pdf (2024). Revise and Resubmit at Marketing Science.
• Nonparametric estimation of regression functions under restrictions on partial derivatives: shape.pdf (dormant working paper).
• Optimal shape of income tax: evidence from zero income tax countries - Paraguay and Uruguay (with Momi Dahan): PryUry.pdf (March 2003, not going to be revised).
• Partial Identification with Auxiliary Moment Restrictions (with Behrooz Moosavi Ramezanzadeh), submitted (August 2026).
• Bounds for Restricted Selections of Random Sets (with Behrooz Moosavi), submitted. arXiv 2512.04539.
• Extended Set Difference: Inverse Operation of Minkowski Summation (with Behrooz Moosavi Ramezanzadeh), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Convex Analysis (December 2024). arXiv 2412.19779.

Work in Progress

• Defensive Experimental Design: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ABBA testing (with Alistair Wilson (opens in a new tab)).
• Monopoly Screening under Vagueness (with Luca Rigotti (opens in a new tab) and Gabriel Ziegler).
• Regulating the Boom: Strategic Behavior in Louisiana's Fracking Industry (with Arifah Hasanbasri).