His research interests include environmental, public, and urban economics, as well as applied microeconometrics. Recent and ongoing projects have involved: (1) extending equilibrium sorting models to describe interrelated outcomes in the housing and labor markets; (2) developing a unified framework for modeling hedonic equilibria and land value capitalization of public goods; (3) estimating implicit expenditures on non-market goods and services in the United States; and (4) defining sufficient conditions for partially identifying consumer preferences for the attributes of a differentiated product. Nick moved to ASU from Virginia Tech, where he was an assistant professor in the department of agricultural and applied economics from 2006 to 2009.