Nathan H. Miller  --  welcome to my homepage.

I am an economist at Economic Analysis Group of the U.S. Department of Justice.  I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and my B.A. from the University of Virginia.  I previously served as research assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Current Research Projects

Automobile prices, gasoline prices, and consumer demand for fuel economy (under review)

      With Ashley Langer

Why do borrowers pledge collateral?  New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information

     With Allen Berger, Marco Espinosa-Vega and Scott Frame  

       revisions requested

Mergers when consumers value firm scope

Prescription drugs and mandatory generic substitution: An empirical evaluation

Refereed Publications

 Strategic leniency and cartel enforcement

      American Economic Review, Forthcoming
 

Firm risk, asymmetric information, and loan maturities

      With Allen Berger, Marco Espinosa-Vega and Scott Frame  

        Journal of Finance, Vol. 60, No. 6 (2005), 2895-2923

Does function follow organizational form?  Evidence from the lending practices of large and small banks          With Allen Berger, Mitchell Petersen, Raghuram Rajan and Jeremy Stein 

        Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 76, No. 2 (2005), 237-269

Credit scoring and the availability, price and risk of small business credit

        With Allen Berger and Scott Frame

         Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2005), 191-222