Brian Adams

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Akron

Curriculum Vitae
Profile pages: Unv of Akron, Google Scholar, IDEAS/RePEc, SSRN

Publications

Hedonic Price Indexes under Static Pricing: An Application to PPI Microprocessors
Brian Adams and Steven D. Sawyer.
Business Economics. November 2025.
Previously BLS Economic Working Paper 582

Location, Location, Structure Type: Rent Divergence within Neighborhoods
Brian Adams and Randal Verbrugge
Journal of Housing Economics. Volume 69, September 2025.
Previously BLS Economic Working Paper 533 and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper 21-03

Disentangling Rent Index Differences: Data, Methods, and Scope
Brian Adams, Lara Loewenstein, Hugh Montag, Randal Verbrugge
American Economic Review: Insights. Volume 6, Number 2: pages 230-245, June 2024.
Previously Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper 22-38R and BLS Economic Working Paper 555

Zone Pricing in Retail Oligopoly
Brian Adams and Kevin R. Williams
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Volume 11, Number 1: pages 124-156, February 2019.
Previously Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper 2079R2

Early adopters of new supermarket products
Brian Adams and Hyunchul Kim
Applied Economics Letters. Volume 26, Issue 14: pages 1196-1201, 2019.
Previously BLS Economic Working Paper 501

Cross-validation of quality-adjustment methods for price indexes
Brian Adams and Alexander Klayman
Monthly Labor Review. June 2018.

Does Organisational Form Drive Competition? Evidence from Coffee Retailing
Brian Adams, Joshua Gans, Richard Hayes, and Ryan Lampe
Economic Record. Volume 94, Issue 305: pages 155-167, June 2018.
Self-archived version

The employment impact of motor vehicle assembly plant openings
Brian Adams
Regional Science and Urban Economics. Volume 58: pages 57-70, May 2016.
October 2015 working paper

Circulation statistics in the evaluation of collection development
Brian Adams and Robert Noel
Collection Building. Volume 27, Issue 2: pages 71-73, 2008.

Working papers

Migration and Agglomeration Among Motor Vehicle Parts Suppliers
Brian Adams