Research Interests

• Business strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Public Policy

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Robert Seamans. 2012. Fighting City Hall: Entry Deterrence and Technology Deployment in the Cable TV Industry. Management Science. 58(3): 461-475. [Lead Article]

• Aaron Chatterji and Robert Seamans. 2012. Entrepreneurship, Credit Cards and Race. Journal of Financial Economics. 106(1): 182-195.

• Robert Seamans. 2013. Threat of Entry, Asymmetric Information and Pricing. Strategic Management Journal. 34(4): 426-444.

• Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu. 2014. Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers. Management Science. 60(2): 476-493.

• Alicia Robb and Robert Seamans. 2014. The Role of R&D in Entrepreneurial Finance. Advances in Strategic Management (Special Issue on Finance and Strategy). 31: 341-373.

• Victor Bennett, Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu. 2015. Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the US Concert Industry. Strategic Management Journal. 36(11): 1599-1614. [Lead Article].

• Jason Chan, Anindya Ghose and Robert Seamans. 2016. Internet and Hate Crime: Offline Spillovers from Online Access. MIS Quarterly. 4(2): 381-403.

• Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu. 2017.  Repositioning and Cost Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies. Strategy Science. 2(2): 83-99. [Lead Article].

• Geraldo Cerqueiro, Deepak Hegde, María Fabiana Penas and Robert Seamans. 2017. Debtor Rights, Credit Supply, and Innovation. Management Science. 63(10): 3311–3327

• Timothy Bates, William Bradford and Robert Seamans. Forthcoming. Minority Entrepreneurship in Twenty-First Century America. Small Business Economics. (Accepted May 2017)

• Yongwook Paik, Sukhun and Robert Seamans. Forthcoming. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Political Competition: How the Public Sector Helps the Sharing Economy Create Value. Strategic Management Journal. (Accepted January 2018)

  Selected press for published papers:
  ABC, Ars Technica, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, CBS, Daily Beast, Economic Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MSN, The Nation, The New York Times, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, others.

Other Writing

• Samuel Himel and Robert Seamans. 2017. Artificial Intelligence, Incentives to Innovate, and Competition Policy. Antitrust Chronicle. Fall 2017 Vol 1(3).

• Manav Raj and Robert Seamans. 2018. AI, Labor, Productivity, and the Need for Firm-Level Data. In The Economics of Artificial Intelligence, eds. Ajay Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans and Avi Goldfarb, University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Forthcoming.

• Ed Felten, Manav Raj and Robert Seamans. 2018. A Method to Link Advances in Artificial Intelligence to Occupational Abilities. Forthcoming. American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings.

 

Popular Media

“We Won’t Even Know If A Robot Takes Your Job” – Forbes, January 11, 2017
“No, Robots Not Be Taxed” – Forbes, March 3, 2017
“Immigrants Can Help Boost American Innovation and Economic Growth” (with Petra Moser) – Forbes, April 25, 2017
“Universal Basic Income Is Not An Innovation Policy” – Forbes, June 6, 2017

“Artificial Intelligence And Big Data: Good For Innovation?” Forbes, September 7, 2017

“Trump’s Focus On Rural Broadband Should Include Community-Owned Networks” Forbes, January 9, 2018