Nathan Seegert and Elizabeth Berger, 2020. Studying marijuana sales data in Washington state—where only half of all marijuana businesses have access to cash management services and none have access to lending from financial institutions—the authors find that access to cash management increases firms’ profits by 40%. [download pdf]

Nathan Seegert, Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma and Christopher Stanton, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020. Results from a field experiment suggest simple management practices encouraging workers to ask peers about their own sales techniques substantially improved individual performance. [download pdf]

Nathan Seegert, Elena Patel and Christopher Mace, National Tax Journal, 2020. Using administrative data from Washington state to study the recreational marijuana industry, the authors determine that in perfectly competitive markets, marijuana producers pay slightly more of the industry’s tax burden than consumers. In a monopoly market, consumers pay most of the tax burden. [download pdf]

Adam Meirowitz and Kristopher Ramsay, Handbook of Political Science, Sage Press, 2020. In this chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, the authors put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. [download pdf]