Brian Adams

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Akron

Curriculum Vitae
Profile pages: Unv of AkronGoogle ScholarIDEAS/RePEcSSRN

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 533Federal 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 22-38RBLS 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.

  Also available as: 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.

  Also available as: 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