John Pepper

Merrill S. Bankard Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 234

Hours: Mondays 12 - 2pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Social Program Evaluation, Econometrics, Public Economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Tufts University
Master of Science (MS), University of Wisconsin System : Madison
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Wisconsin System : Madison

Selected Publications

"How do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions,” (with Charles Manski), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 232-244.

“The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation Services for People with Mental Illness,” (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(3), 826-858.

“The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Cognitive Impairments,” (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 399-426.

“Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on Child Health Outcomes when Participation is Endogenous and Misreported,” (with Craig Gunderson, Dean Jolliffe, and Brent Kreider), Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2012, 107:499, 958-975.

“More on Monotone Instrumental Variables” (with Charles Manski), The Econometrics Journal, 12, July 2009, S200-216.

“Disability and Employment:  Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Misreporting Errors,” (with Brent Kreider), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102 (478), June 2007, 432-441.

“Robust Inferences for Method of Moments Estimators from Random Clustered Samples: An Application Using Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,” Economic Letters, 75(3), June 2002, 75, 341-345.

“The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt:  A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(3), August 2000, 472-88.

“Monotone Instrumental Variables: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling,” (with Charles Manski), Econometrica, 68(4), July 2000, 997-1010. 

Coppock

Lee Coppock

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 210

Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00 - 3:30pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Principles of Macroeconomics and the Teaching of Economics

Education

Master of Arts (MA), George Mason University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), George Mason University

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • "Teaching Principles of Macroeconomics after COVID-19,” Journal of Economic Education, Forthcoming

  • “Capital Constraints and Asset Bubbles: An Experimental Study,” with Daniel Harper and Charles Holt, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021
  • “Teaching Modules for Principles of Economics,” with Dirk Mateer, Journal of Economics Teaching, 2021
  • "Principles of Economics", with Dirk Mateer, W.W. Norton, 2013
Anderson

Simon Anderson

Commonwealth Professor of Economics


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 236A

Hours: Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Advertising, Search and Information, Price Dispersion, Media Economics, Industrial Organization

Education

Bachelor of Science (BSc (Econ)), University of Southampton
Master of Arts (MA), Queen's University at Kingston
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Queen's University at Kingston

Working Papers

Search Direction: Position Externalities and Position Auction Bias (with Régis Renault); CEPR Discussion Paper 16724 (to be resubmitted to Review of Economic Studies)

Price Discrimination in the Information Age: Prices, Poaching, and Privacy with Personalized Targeted Discounts (with Alicia Baik and Nathan Larson), CEPR Discussion Paper 13793

Price Discrimination in the Information Age: Prices, Poaching, and Privacy with Personalized Targeted Discounts (with Alicia Baik and Nathan Larson), Revised Version forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies

Hybrid Platform Model (with Özlem Bedre-Defolie), CEPR Discussion Paper 27404-1623244227

Economic Distributions, Primitive Distributions, and Demand Recovery in Monopolistic Competition, (with Andre De Palma), CEPR Discussion Paper 15731 (to be resubmitted to Journal of Economic Theory)

Ad Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity, (with Martin Peitz), CEPR Discussion Paper 15130 (Revised version forthcoming in American Economics Journal- Micro)

Choosing a Champion: Party Membership and Policy Platform, (with Kieron J. Meagher), CEPR Discussion Paper 8941

 

Selected Publications

Online Trade Platforms: hosting, selling, or both? (with Ozlem Bedre-Defolie), forthcoming International Journal of Industrial Organization

The Advertising‐Financed Business Model in Two‐Sided Media Markets (with Bruno Jullien);Chapter from Handbook of Media Economics

Product quality, competition, and multi-purchasing, (with Oystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind), CEPR Discussion Paper 8923  International Economic Review 58.1 (2017): 183-210.

Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry, (with Federico Ciliberto, Jura Liaukonyte and Régis Renault), CEPR Discussion Paper 8988    Appendices  Supplement RAND Journal of Economics 47.4 (2016): 1029-1056.

Opaque Selling (with Levent Celik), Information Economics and Policy, doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2020.100869

Media See-saws: Winners and Losers in Platform Markets  (with Martin Peitz), 2019; Journal of Economic Theory, 186, doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2019.104990

Aggregative Games and Oligopoly Theory: Short-run and Long-run Analysis  (with Nisvan Erkal and Daniel Piccinin), 2019; CEPR Discussion Paper 9511, RAND Journal of Economics, 51(2), June 2020, 470-495 doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12322

Price Discrimination figures (with Regis Renault), in Handbook in Transport Economics Ch.4 527-560 Eds.  A. de Palma, R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman; Edward Elgar

The CES distribution circle and its decoupling (with Andre de Palma) Economic Journal, 130, 628, May 2020, 911–936, doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa001

Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation  (with A. de Palma and J.F.Thisse), MIT Press  1992

Oligopolistic Competition and the Optimal Provision of Products  (with A. de Palma and Y. Nesterov), Econometrica, 63(6), 1281–1301, 1995

Rent Seeking with Bounded Rationality: An Analysis of the All-Pay Auction (with J. Goeree and C. Holt), Journal of Political Economy, 106(4), 828–853, 1998

Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis (with Stephen Coate), Review of Economic Studies, 72(4), 947–972, 2005

Advertising Content  (with Regis Renault), American Economic Review, 96(1), 93–113, 2006

Firm Pricing with Consumer Search with Régis Renault; Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Luis Corchon and Marco Marini eds., Edward Elgar, 2017

Firm Pricing with Consumer Search with Régis Renault

Media market concentration advertising levels and ad prices  (with Øystein Foros, Hans Jarle Kind, Martin Peitz), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2012) 30(3) 321-325.

Advertising: the Persuasion Game (with Régis Renault)

The Advertising Mix for a Search Good  (with Régis Renault) CEPR paper 8756 Discussion Paper, Management Science, (2013), 59(1), 69-83

Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers (Figures or Figures: long version) Extended version  (Figures) (with John McLaren); Journal of the European Economics Association, (2012), 10(4), 831-859.

Information Congestion: open access in a two-sided market  Figures (with Andre de Palma), April 2007; RAND Journal of Economics (2009), 40(4), 688-709.

Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary   Thanks to Emily Blanchard, Maxim Engers, Sanjay Jain, and Cat Tyler for their comments.

Market Performance with Multiproduct Firms (Figures) (with Andre de Palma),  Journal of Industrial Economics 54 (1) 95–124 March 2006

Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis (with Stephen Coate),  Review of Economic Studies 72 (4) 947–972 October 2005; March 2004 Paper (Figures) January 2005 Paper (FiguresEarlier Version

Participation Games: Market Entry Coordination and the Beautiful Blonde (with Maxim Engers), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2007) 63(1) 120-137

The Economics of Pricing Parking (with Andre de Palma), Journal of Urban Economics (2004) 55(1) 1-20

Efficiency and Surplus Bounds in Cournot Competition (with Regis Renault), Journal of Economic Theory 113 (2) 253-264 Dec 2003 short version or long version-with figures

Price discrimination in transportation figures (in French) (with Regis Renault), "Tarification Discriminante" in La Tarification des Transports: enjeux et defies Ch.5 107-151 Eds. A. de Palma and E. Quinet Economica Paris.

Price Discrimination figures (with Regis Renault),  Handbook in Transport Economics Ch.4 527-560 Eds. Edward Elgar, A.de Palma,R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman

Advertising Content (with Regis Renault), American Economic Review (2006) 96(1) 93-113

International Pricing with Costly Consumer Arbitrage (with Victor Ginsburgh), Review of International Economics (1999) 7(1) 126-139.

Noisy Directional Learning and the Logit Equilibrium  (with Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt),  Scandinavian Journal of Economics festschrift for Reinhard Selten (2004) 106(3) 581-602

Regulation of television advertising  Ed. Paul Seabright The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets ,  Cambridge University Press (2007) 189-224 

The Media and Advertising: a tale of two-sided markets tables (with Jean J. Gabszewicz) in Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture (2006), Eds. Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby Elsevier; North Holland CEPR Discussion Paper 5223

Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus (with Maxim Engers), Articles for International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Ed (2007) Ed. William A. Darity Jr

Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content (with Joshua Gans) CEPR Discussion Papers 7729, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2011) 3(4): 1–34

Spatial Modeling in Transportation (with Wesley W. Wilson) Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration Ed. Jeremy F. Plant, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, (2007) 255-280

Comparative Advertising: Disclosing Horizontal Match Information-long version figures (with Régis Renault),  RAND Journal of Economics (2009) 40(3) 558-581

Differentiated Products International Trade and Simple General Equilibrium Effects (with Nicolas Schmitt) Eds. G. Dow, A. Eckert, Doug West:  Essays in honor of Curt Eaton, University of Toronto Press. (2010) Ch 7 136-59

Competition for Attention in the Information (Overload) Age (with Andre de Palma), CEPR Discussion Paper 7286, RAND Journal of Economics (2012) 43(1): 1-25.

The ABC of complementary products mergers (with Simon Loertscher and Yves Schneider), Economics Letters, (2010) 106(3) 212-215

Spatial Competition Pricing And Market Power in Transportation: A Dominant Firm Model  Figures  (with Wesley W. Wilson), Journal of Regional Science, (2008) 48(2) 367-397

Information Content of Advertising: Empirical Evidence from the OTC Analgesic Industry  (with Federico Ciliberto and Jura Liaukonyte), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2013) 31(5) 355-367

Getting into Your Head(ache): Advertising Content for OTC Analgesics (previous version)

Shouting to be Heard in Advertising (with Andre de Palma), Management Science (2013), 59(7), 1545-1556

 

Advertising and the Internet  Handbook of Digital Economics Eds. M. Peitz and J. Waldfogel, Ch. 14  355-399, Oxford University Press

Oligopoly and Luce’s Choice Axiom (with Andre de Palma), Regional Science and Urban Economics,  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (2012) 1053-1060

Aggregative Oligopoly Games with Entry (with Nisvan Erkal and Daniel Piccinin)

Competition for Advertisers and for Viewers in Media markets  (Oystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind) Economic Journal, (2017) 128, 34-54.

Personalized Pricing and Advertising: An Asymmetric Equilibrium Analysis (with Alicia Baik and Nathan Larson), CEPR Discussion Paper 10464, Games and Economic Behavior (2015), 92, 53-73.

Product Line Design (Long Version) (shorter version) (with Levent Celik), Journal of Economic Theory, 157, 517-526, (2015)

Market Power in Transportation: Spatial Equilibrium under Bertrand Competition    (Figures) (with Wesley W. Wilson), Economics of Transportation, Special Issue on Collective Contributions in the Honor of Richard Arnott, 4(1-2), 7-15, March–June 2015

Economic Distributions and Primitive  Distributions in Monopolistic Competition (with André de Palma)

 

 

 

Federico Ciliberto

Federico Ciliberto

Professor, Chair


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 218

Fields of Interest

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Florence
Master of Arts (MA), Northwestern University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Northwestern University

Selected Publications

“Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry,” with Gaurab Aryal (University of Virginia) and Ben Leyden (Cornell University), the Review of Economic Studies, 2021.

“Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets,” with Charles Murry (Boston College) and Elie Tamer (Harvard University), Journal of Political Economy, Volume 129, Number 11, November 2021. [Lead Article]

“Superstar Exporters: An Empirical Investigation of Strategic Interactions in Danish Export Markets,” with Ina Charlotte Jäkel (Aarhus University, Denmark), Journal of International Economics, Volume 129, March 2021.

“Valuing Product Innovation: Genetically Engineered Varieties in US Corn and Soybeans,” with GianCarlo Moschini (Iowa State University), and Edward Perry (Kansas State University). Rand Journal of Economics, 2019, Vol. 50, Issue 3, Pages 615-644. This article is the winner of the 2020 Quality of Research Discovery Award awarded by the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association.

Kenneth Elzinga

Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 216

Hours: By Appointment via Graham Lea (grahamrlea@virginia.edu)

Fields of Interest

Antitrust economics; religion and economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Kalamazoo College
Master of Arts (M.A.), Michigan State University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Michigan State University

Selected Publications

  • The Mystery of the Invisible Hand by Marshall Jevons (pseudonym). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Paperback version published by Princeton University Press, 2016. Chinese version published by AND Publishing Ltd., 2016. Chinese Simplified version published by Beijing-Time Chinese Press, 2019.
     
  • “Craft Beer In The United States: History, Numbers, and Geography,” (w/Carol Horton Tremblay and Victor J. Tremblay), 10 Journal of Wine Economics, 242 (2015).
     
  • “The Beer Industry,” in James Brock (ed.) The Structure of American Industry 13th ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2016. 
     
  • “Alfred Marshall: Why He Matters,” Number 67 Faith & Economics, 5 (2016).
     
  • “Thirteen Editions of The Structure of American Industry: An I.O. Perspective,” (w/ F.M. Scherer), 49 Review of Industrial Organization, 515 (2016).
     
  • “Louis Brandeis and Contemporary Antitrust Enforcement,” (w/ Micah Webber), 33 Touro Law Review, 277 (2017).
     
  • “Resale Price Maintenance and the Tenth Anniversary of Leegin.”  Introduction and Editor of Special Issue of the Review of Industrial Organization DOI 10.1007/s11151-017-9569-9 (2017).
     
  • “Craft Beer in the USA: Strategic Connections to Macro- and European Brewers,” (w/Carol Horton Tremblay and Victor J. Tremblay) in Christian Garavaglia and Johan Swinnen (eds.) Economic Perspectives on Craft Beer: A Revolution in the Global Beer Industry.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
     
  • “Predatory Pricing in the Airline Industry: Spirit Airlines v. Northwest Airlines,” (w/ David E. Mills; revised and updated from prior edition) in John E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White (eds.), The Antitrust Revolution 7th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
     
  • “Geographic Market Definition in the Merger Guidelines: A Retrospective Analysis,” (w/ Vandy M. Howell) in George Hay (ed.) Special Issue of the Review of Industrial Organization 10.1007/s11151-018-9658-4 (2018).
     
  • “Towards an Economic Theory of Amateurism: The NCAA, Antitrust, and the Student-Athlete,” (w/ John P. Bigelow), in CPI Antitrust Chronicle (2020).
Engers

Maxim Engers

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 230

Hours: Thursday 3:30 - 4:45pm

Fields of Interest

Economics of Information; Applied Game Theory

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cape Town
Master of Arts (MA), University of California System: Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), University of California System: Los Angeles

Selected Publications

  • "Producer Surplus", (with Simon Anderson) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edition), forthcoming;
  • "Charity Auctions," (with Brian McManus), International Economic Review, Vol. 48, August 2007; 
  • "Participation games: Market entry, coordination, and the beautiful blonde," (with Simon Anderson),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 63, May 2007;  
  • "R&D Policy with International Spillovers," (with Shannon Mitchell), European Economic Review, Vol. 50, October 2006.
Ana Fostel

Ana Fostel

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 232

 

Hours: Tuesday 1:00 - 3:00pm by email appointment only

Fields of Interest

Finance, International Finance, Economic Theory,Experimental Finance

Education

Doctor of Philosphy (PhD): Yale University

Friedberg

Leora Friedberg

Associate Professor, Vice Chair


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 257

Hours: Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00pm

Fields of Interest

Public Economics;Labor Economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

  • "The Social Security Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men," Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 12, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998;
  • "Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data," American Economic Review, Volume 88 (3), 608-627, June 1998;
  • "The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement," Journal of Public Economics, Volume 71 (2), 213-232, February 1999;
  • "The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 82 (1), 48-63, February 2000.
James Harrigan

James Harrigan

Professor, , Graduate Studies Director


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 215

Hours: Tuesday 11:00am - 12:15pm, Hours: Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15pm

Fields of Interest

International Trade, Economic Geography, Applied Microeconomics, East Asian economies

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of California System : Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California System : Los Angeles

Working Papers

Link to Prof. Harrigan's Research Page

Charles Holt

A Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 238

Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00am - 12:30pm

Fields of Interest

Experimental economics, mathematical economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Washington & Lee University
Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Carnegie Mellon University

Biography

Charles Holt was a founding co-editor and advisory editor of the journal, Experimental Economics.  His research pertains to measures of risk aversion and subjective beliefs, and studies of strategic behavior, using a mix of game theory and laboratory experiment.   He has worked on auction design projects for the FCC, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and the NY Federal Reserve Bank.  Current research is focused on asset market bubbles and bounded rationality (quantal response equilibrium).  He is the director of the Veconlab (Google “veconlab admin”) and does all programming for that free online site.  He received the 2008 SEA Kenneth G. Elzinga Teaching Award, the 2018 UVA Thomas Jefferson Award for Scholarship, and the inaugural 2023 AEA Distinguished Economic Education Award.  

 

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  •  “Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions,” (with Jacob Goeree) American Economic Review, December 2001, 1402-1422.
  • “Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects” (with Susan Laury) American Economic Review, December 2002, 92: 1644-55.
  • “The Nash Equilibrium: A Perspective” (with Al Roth) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, March 2004, 101(12) pp. 3999-4002.
  • Quantal Response Equilibrium: A Stochastic Theory of Games, (with Jacob Goeree and Thomas Palfrey), Princeton University Press, 2016.
  • “Price Bubbles, Gender, and Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets,” (with Megan Porzio and Michelle Song) European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 72-94.
  • Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Johnson

William Johnson

Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 232

Hours: By appointment only

Fields of Interest

Labor economics; public economics; economics of information

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wesleyan University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

McLaren

John McLaren

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 226

Hours: Tuesday 2:00 - 3;30pm

Fields of Interest

International Trade, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Economic Development, Effects of Economic Globalization

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), McGill University
Master of Arts (MA), University of Toronto
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Princeton University

Selected Publications

 

  • “Looking for Local Labor-Market Effects of NAFTA” (joint with Shushanik Hakobyan). Review of Economics and Statistics 98:4, October 2016, pp. 728-41.
  • “Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility.” (With Erhan Artuç). Journal of International Economics 97, pp. 278-94, 2015.
  • “When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority.” (With Levent Çelik and Bilgehan Karabay.) American Economic Journals: Microeconomics, August 2015.
Michener

Ron Michener

Associate Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 251

Hours: Wednesday 1:00- 3:00pm

Fields of Interest

Colonial Monetary History, Monetary Theory, Economic History

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • "Fixed Exchange Rates and the Quantity Theory in Colonial America," Carnegie-Rochester Conferences Volume, 1987;
  • "The Political Economy of Insider Trading Laws," with C.Tighe, Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Associations, 1994;
  • "Inflation, Expectations, and Output: Lucas's Island Revisited," Journal of Macroeconomics 20, 767-83, Fall 1998;
  • "State 'Currencies' and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Clarifying some Confusions." , R. Michener and R. Wright, American Economic Review, 682-703, June 2005;
  • "Development of the US monetary union," R. Michener and R. Wright, Financial History Review, vol. 13:1, 19-41, 2006

 

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Amalia Miller

Georgia S. Bankard Professor


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Director of Bridge 2 Doctorate


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 239

Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00pm

Fields of Interest

Public Finance, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University
Denis

Denis Nekipelov

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Placement


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 254

Hours: Monday 10:00am - 12:00pm
Olsen

Edgar Olsen

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 336

Fields of Interest

Housing Markets and Policies, Welfare Policies

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Tulane University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Rice University

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • “A Competitive Theory of the Housing Market,” American Economic Review, LIX (September 1969), 612-22
  • "An Econometric Analysis of Rent Control," Journal of Political Economy, LXXX , 1081-1100, Nov./Dec. 1972;
  • "The Benefits and Costs of Public Housing in New York City" (with David Barton), Journal of Public Economics, XX, 299-332, April 1983;
  • "The Demand and Supply of Housing Services: A Critical Survey of the Empirical Literature" in Handbook in Urban Economics, ed., Edwin S. Mills, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987;
  • "The Welfare Economics of Equal Access," (with Diane Lim Rogers), Journal of Public Economics, XLV, 91-105, June 1991;
  • “Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census” (with Dirk Early), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2 (2002), 1-34;
  • “Housing Programs for Low-Income Households” in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, ed., Robert Moffitt, National Bureau of Economic Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003);
  • "Low-Income Housing Policy," New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, London:Macmillan, 2008;
  • “Fundamental Housing Policy Reforms to End Homelessness” in How to House the Homeless, ed., Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O'Flaherty (New York: Russell Sage, 2010).
  • “Geographic Price Variation, Housing Assistance, and Poverty” (with Dirk Early) in Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, ed., Philip N. Jefferson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • “The Performance and Legacy of Housing Policies” (with Jens Ludwig) in The Legacies of the War on Poverty, ed., Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger (New York: Russell Sage, 2013)
  • “U. S. Housing Policy” (with Jeff Zabel) in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 5, ed., Giles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William Strange (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2015)
  • “Racial Rent Differences in U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from the Housing Voucher Program” (with Paul Carrillo and Dirk Early), Journal of Regional Science, 59(4), (September 2019), 669-700

Oped Pieces

 

Congressional Testimony

Sheetal Sekhri

Associate Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 258

Hours: Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Iowa State University
Master of Arts (MA), Brown University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Brown University
Troyan

Peter Troyan

Associate Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 340

Hours: Monday 1:00 - 2:00pm

Fields of Interest

Microeconomic theory, game theory, market design, matching

Education

Bachelor of Science: University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy: Stanford University
Turner

Sarah Turner

University Professor of Economics & Education, Souder Family Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 244

Hours: Zoom on Tuesdays from 2:00 - 3:30pm

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Princeton University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Michigan System : Ann Arbor

Working Papers

  • Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?  Investigating the Link Between Increased High School Persistence and High School Graduation in Response to Trade Exposure; Ramiro Burga and Sarah Turner; 2020;University of Virginia Paper draft.

  • .Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment.; Murphy, Francis;  Dalton Ruh and Sarah Turner.;University of Virginia Paper draft;  In Progress

  • Hoxby, C. and Turner, S.  2019. “The Right Way to Capture College “Opportunity”: Popular Measures Can Paint the Wrong Picture of Low-Income Student Enrollment.” Education Next. Vol. 19, No. 2
  • Barr, A. and Turner, S. 2018. “A Letter and Encouragement: Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
  • Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner. 2015. “What High-Achieving Low-Income Students Know About College Options” Working draft. 
  • Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner. 2013. “Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students” SIEPR Discussion Paper 12-014.
  • "Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment," (with N. Seftor), Journal of Human Resources, 2002;
  • Going to War and Going to College: Did the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment," (with J. Bound), Journal of Labor Economics (4), 2002
  • "Trade in University Training: Cross State Variation in the Production and Use of College Educated Labor," (with Bound, Groen, & Kezdi), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 121 , 2004"Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans",(with John Bound), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March) [NBER Working Paper No. 9044], 2003.
  • "Race, Income and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture" (with Alan Krueger and Jesse Rothstein), American Law and Economics Review, 2006.
  • "Opportunities for Low Income Students at Top Colleges and Universities: Policy Initiatives and the Distribution of Students" (with Amanda Pallais), National Tax Journal, LIX (2): 357-386, 2006.
  • "Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment" (with John Bound), Journal of Public Economics [NBER Working Paper No. 12424], forthcoming.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner. Forthcoming. “Out of Work and Into School: Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession,” Journal of Public Economics
  • John Bound, Breno Braga, Joe Golden and Sarah Turner. 2013. “Pathways to Adjustment: The Case of Information Technology Workers” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings
  • Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner.  2013 “Expanding Enrollments and Contracting Budgets: The Effect of the Great Recession Higher Education,”  The Annals: American Academy of Political and Social Science.
  • John Bound, Mike Lovenheim and Sarah Turner. 2012. “Understanding the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree.” Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 7, No. 4: 375–424.
  • Christopher Avery and Sarah Turner. 2012. “Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(1): 165–92
Van Wincoop

Eric Van Wincoop

Robert P Black Research Professor of Economics


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 231

Hours: ECON 8220- Monday 11:00am - 12:00pm, Hours: ECON 4220 - Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00pm

Fields of Interest

Open Economy, Macro Economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Master of Arts (MA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University

Eric Young

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 224

Hours: By appointment only

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Computational Economics

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Washington & Lee University
Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Arts (MA), Southern Methodist University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Carnegie Mellon University

Working Papers

  • "Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective; Benigno, Gianluca, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci, and Eric R. Young (2016), " Journal of Monetary Economics 84, pp. 147-165.
  • "Rational Inattention and Dynamics of Consumption and Wealth in General Equilibrium,"  Luo, Yulei, Jun Nie, Gaowang Wang, and Eric R. Young (2017), Journal of Economic Theory 172, pp. 55-87.
  • "Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt,"Athreya, Kartik, Juan M. Sánchez, Xuan S. Tam, and Eric R. Young (2018), International Economic Review 59(2), pp. 593-623
  • "Capital Controls and Monetary Policy in Sudden-Stop Economies," Devereux, Michael B., Eric R. Young, and Changhua Yu (2019), Journal of Monetary Economics 103, pp. 52-74.
  • "Ambiguity, Low Risk-Free Rates, and Consumption Volatility," Luo, Yulei, Jun Nie, and Eric R. Young (2019), forthcoming, Economic Journal.
  • "Macro-Financial Volatility under Dispersed Information," Wu, Jieran, Jianjun Miao, and Eric R. Young (2019), forthcoming, Theoretical Economics.

Doyle

Carter Doyle

Assistant Professor, General Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 205

Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:30-4:00pm or by appointment

Marc Santugini

Associate Professor, General Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 213

Hours: By appointment

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia, 2007

M.A., Economics, University of Virginia, 2003

M.A., Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001

B.A., Economics and International Studies, La Salle University, 1999

Westerfield

Maria Westerfield

Visiting Lecturer


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 219

Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 - 4:30pm; Zoom hours by appointment
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Edwin Burton

Visiting Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 262

Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:00am - 12:00pm

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Rice University
  • Master of Arts (MA), Rice University
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Northwestern University
Debaere

Peter Debaere

Professor of Business Administration


Office Address

Darden School, FOB 283

Gallmeyer

Michael (Mike) Gallmeyer

Associate Professor


Office Address

Rouss & Roberston Halls, Room 366

Fields of Interest

Finance

Lipscomb

Molly Lipscomb

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall

Fields of Interest

Environmental Economics, Development Economics,International Trade, Applied Microe

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, May 2009, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • M.A. in Economics, May 2005, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • BA in Economics, May 1999, Claremont McKenna College
  • With honors, Magna Cum Laude, Minor in Political Science
Mbiti

Isaac Mbiti

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, room 106

Fields of Interest

Public Policy

Dan Murphy

Daniel Murphy

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Darden, FOB 158

Fields of Interest

International and Macro Economics

Ruhm

Christopher Ruhm

Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall

Fields of Interest

Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1984
  • University of California, Berkeley, M.A. 1981
  • University of California, Davis, B.A. (with highest honors) 1978,
Shimshack

Jay Shimshack

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, Room 103

Fields of Interest

Environmental, applied microeconomics

Shobe

William Shobe

Director of Center for Economic & Policy Studies, Professor of Public Policy


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 332

Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:00 -2:30pm

Fields of Interest

Environmental economics, experimental economics, emission market design, early childhood education, federalism, public finance

Education

  • B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR
  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World (January 2012), William Shobe and Dallas Burtraw. CEPS Working Papers (wp12-01), Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Charlottesville, VA (Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics).
  • Price Discovery in Emissions Permit Auctions (2011), Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Erica Myers, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer, and William Shobe, in R. Mark Isaac, Douglas A. Norton (ed.) Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability (Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.11-36.
  • A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), Nancy T. Tippins and Margaret L. Hilton, Editors; Panel to Review the Occupational Information Network (O*NET); National Research Council, 2010. [Member of the review panel organized by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council.]
  • An Experimental Analysis of Auctions versus Grandfathering to Assign Pollution Permits, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Erica Myers, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. Journal of the European Economic Association Vol. 8, No. 2-3: 514-525 (April/May 2010).
  • An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap (2010), William Shobe, Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer and Erica Myers. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review Vol. 39, No. 2: 162-175.
  • Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer and Erica Myers. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 4: 672-691 (2009).
  • The Design, Testing, and Implementation of Virginia's NOx Allowance Auction, with David Porter, Stephen Rassenti, Vernon Smith, and Abel Winn. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 190 - 200 (2009).
  • Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emission allowances Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. Research sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (October 2007).
Thomas

Mark Thomas

Professor of History and Economics


Office Address

Nau Hall, Room 381

Hours: Tuesdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm (and by appointment) in Nau Hall, rm 381

Fields of Interest

British Economic, US Business and Economic, International Economic, Australia

Education

  • B.A. Oxford 1976
  • M.A. Cornell 1979
  • D.Phil. Oxford 1984
Warnock

Francis (Frank) Warnock

James C. Wheat, Jr. Professor of Business Administration


Office Address

Darden School, FOB 298D

Fields of Interest

International Finance; International Portfolio Allocation; Capital Flows; Financial Sector Development

Jim Wycoff

James (Jim) Wyckoff

Director of Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness


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Office Address

Olsson Hall, room 238C

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Edwin Burmeister

Commonwealth Professor of Economics


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T. Wake Epps

Professor of Economics


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Gabriela Barbosa

Jenna Blochowicz

Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Microeconomics

Education

PhD expected May 2024, University of Virginia

MA, Economics, University of Virginia- 2019

MA, Economic Theory, ITAM- 2018

BA, Economics, Boston College- 2015

Job Market Paper

Bargaining for Exclusive Rights in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the NFL and Broadcast Channels"?
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David Chapman

Professor of Commerce; Area Coordinator - Finance


Office Address

McIntire School of Commerce, Robertson & Rouss Hall

Fields of Interest

Finance, Asset Pricing Theory, Portfolio Theory

Education

PhD., Business Administration, University of Rochester
M.S., Applied Economics, University of Rochester

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Tony Pyle

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Ariel Salvaro

Graham Lea

Assitant to Kenneth Elzinga


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 214

Jennifer Jones

Director, Economics Career Office


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 228

Hours: Please see Handshake for appointment availability.

Fields of Interest

Career Development, Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Education

Master of Education, University of Virginia

Master of Science in English Education, Hofstra University

Bachelor of Arts, University at Albany

Certified in MBTI

Biography

Jennifer Jones directs the activities of the Economics Career Office (ECO) to equip majors with tools and resources to successfully reach the next steps in their career planning. Jen partners with faculty, alumni, employers, and other career offices on the grounds toward this goal. She was hired in 2013 to spearhead this effort after funding was provided by many enthusiastic and committed donors through the leadership of Professors Ken Elzinga and Charlie Holt.

Jen returned to the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in 2013 after working as the Director of Student Career Services for Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Before that time she worked as a fundraiser for U.Va. and served in several roles, including Associate Director for Corporate Relations, and Senior Major Gift Officer for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Fortunate to work alongside University volunteers, trustees, faculty, foundations, and corporations, Jen assisted in raising money for research funding, building projects, new undergraduate courses and programming, and in support of academic positions. She began her career at U.Va. working in the U.Va. Career Center office managing the Employer Relations Team and the On-Grounds Interviewing Program.

Jen has been recognized by the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE) with the association’s award for Innovation and is energized by designing creative and customized career programs to meet students’ needs in an ever-evolving economy. Jen holds a Master’s degree in Education from U.Va. and a Master’s degree in English Education from Hofstra University. She and her husband founded the Big Blue Door Improv Comedy School and Theater in Charlottesville in 2012. She spends as much time as possible with her 12-year old daughter.

Debby (Debs) Stanford

Administrative Coordinator


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 237

Cosar

Kerem Cosar

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 242

Hours: Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm

Fields of Interest

International Trade, Economic Geography, Industrial Organization

Education

Ph.D., Economics, The Pennsylvania State University (2010)
M.A., Economics, Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey (2004)
B.A., Management, Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey (2002)

Working Papers

Link to Prof. Cosar's Research Page

Sandip Sukhtankar

Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 330

Hours: By appointment only

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D. 2009
Swarthmore College, B.A., Highest Honors. 2000

Jonathan Colmer

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 332

Hours: https://calendly.com/jonathan-colmer/graduate-student-meetings

Fields of Interest

Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, International Trade

Education

PhD, London School of Economics & Political Science (2016)

David Mills

Professor


Selected Publications

 

  • Ownership Arrangements and Congestion-Prone Facilities, American Economic Review 71 (1981) 493-502. 
  • "Industry Structure with Fluctuating Demand," (with Laurence Schumann), American Economic Review 75 (1985) 758-767.
  • "Capacity Expansion and the Size of Plants," RAND Journal of Economics 21 (1990) 555-566.
  • "Why Retailers Sell Private Labels," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 4 (1995) 509-528.
  • "Price Wars Triggered by Entry," (with Kenneth G. Elzinga), International Journal of Industrial Organization 17 (1999) 179-198.
  •  “The Lerner Index of Monopoly Power: Origins and Uses,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101 (2011) 558-564.
  • “Countervailing Power and Chain Stores,” Review of Industrial Organization, 42 (2013) 281-295.
  • “Antitrust Predation and The Antitrust Paradox,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Journal of Law and Economics 57 (2014)
  • “Inducing Cooperation with a Carrot Instead of a Stick,” Review of Industrial Organization, 50 (2017) 245-261

William (Ben) Chenault

Fields of Interest

Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Agricultural Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024

BA, Economics, Virginia Tech- 2018

MA, Economics, University of Virginia- 2019

Job Market Paper

The Displacement Effects of Regulating Land Development: Evidence from Municipal Stormwater permits

Mrithyunjayan Nilayamgode

Fields of Interest

Financial Economics, Macroeconomics Theory, Finance

Education

PhD expected May 2024, University of Virginia
 

Job Market Paper

Collateral and Punishment: Coexistence in General Equilibrium

Ella O’Hanlon

Biography

Name: Ella O’Hanlon

Year: Third-Year

Major: Economics

Minor: Computer Science

Hometown: Milton, MA

Short Bio: Ella is a third year economics major who has served as the Treasurer of the Girls Who Code club for the past two years. She also tutors middle school students in French once a week and served as a Research Assistant for the department of Computer Science during her second year. Ella’s favorite economics course at UVA was intermediate microeconomics. She joined ECOSAB this year because of her love for economics and great experience at events that ECOSAB helped create!

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Leland Farmer

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 240

Hours: Thursday 1:00 - 2:30pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Finance, Econometrics, Computational Economics

Education

  • Ph.D. Economics - University of California, San Diego, 2017
  • B.S. Mathematical and Computational Science, with Honors, Minor in Economics - Stanford University, 2011
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Ishita Gambhir

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics

Jessica Montgomery

Fields of Interest

Development, Applied Microeconomics, Public

Education

PhD expected May 2025, University of Virginia

MA, Economics, Western Kentucky University- 2017

BA, Economics, Western Kentucky University- 2016

Job Market Paper

Coase in the Coal Fields? Historical Property Institutions in Appalachia and Long-Run Development

Yutong Chen

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024, University of Virginia

MHS, Health Economics, John Hopkins University- 2018

BA, Economics, Waseda University Japan- 2017

 

Job Market Paper

Digitalization as a Double-Edged Sword: Winning Services and Losing Manufacturing in India
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Yong Hoon Cho

Fields of Interest

Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Price Level/inflation

Education

BA, Economics, Indiana University- 2017

BA, Mathematics, Indiana University- 2017

Job Market Paper

The Optimal Supply of government bonds: collateralization and overaccumulation of capital

Snigdha Das

Fields of Interest

Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Public Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024 University of Virginia

BA, Economics, Virginia Tech- 2018

MA, Economics, University of Virginia- 2019

Job Market Paper

Common Pool Corruption and the Golden goose effect

Yi Ping

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Computational Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024

MA, Economics, University of Virginia  2019

MA, Economics, University of Texas at Austin 2018

BA, Economics, Renmin University of China 2015

Job Market Paper

Leverage Cycle over the Life Cycle: A Quantitative Model of Endogenous Leverage
Lichen Wang

Lichen (Rachel) Wang

Jiafeng Wu

Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2022
BS Economics, BA Mathematics, Arizona State University, 2017

Job Market Paper

"Price and Efficiency in a Market for Generic Drugs in China"

Working Papers

“Lower Drug Prices but Higher Bills: An Unintended Policy Impact,” with Lichen Wang (UVa)  

 

Siqi Yang

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Environmental Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024, University of Virginia

MA, Economics, Peking University, China, 2017

BA, Economics, Peking University, China, 2014

Job Market Paper

The Land Market Impacts of Large Water Transfer Project

Donghyun Suh

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Economics of AI, Economic Growth

Education

PhD expected May 2024, University of Virginia

M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 2018

B.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 2014

Job Market Paper

Machines and Superstars: Technological Change and Top Labor Incomes
Lockwood

Lee Lockwood

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 339

Hours: On leave

Fields of Interest

Public Finance, Labor Economics

Education

B.S. Industrial Engineering and Economics, Northwestern University

M.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics

Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago

Selected Publications

Targeting with In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care
April 2019 (with Ethan Lieber), American Economic Review, 109 (4): 1461-1485
NBER working paper #24267

Incidental Bequests and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks
September 2018; American Economic Review, 108(9): 2513-2550.
NBER working paper #20745

Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
August 2018 (with Daniel Fetter); American Economic Review, 108(8): 2174-2211.
Featured in the NBER Digest, in the NBER Reporter, as the AEA Chart of the Week, and by the Institute for Policy Research
NBER working paper #22132

Bequest Motives and the Annuity Puzzle
April 2012; Review of Economic Dynamics, 15(2): 226-243.

Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets.
Spring 2010 (with Tomas Philipson, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Dana Goldman)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 325-361.

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Tyler Wake

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Corporate Economics

Education

PhD expected May 2024

B.A. Mathematics, Economics. Ohio Wesleyan University, 2016

 M.A. Economics, University of Virginia, 2019

 

Job Market Paper

Business Relationships, Trade Credit, and Idiosyncratic Shocks
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Dennis (DJ) Campbell

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Suchitra Akmanchi

Lidia Kosenkova

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 247

Hours: Tuesday 8:00 - 10:00am

Fields of Interest

Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics and Computer Science- Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Masters Degree in Economics (MA)-New Economic School, Moscow, Russia
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Pennsylvania State University, PA

Anton Korinek

Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 246

Hours: By appointment only

Fields of Interest

Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, Macroeconomics, International Finance, Financial Stabilty

Education

M.A., University of Vienna, 2000
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007

Eric M Leeper

Eric Leeper

Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor in Economics


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 252

Hours: By appointment

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Monetary and Fiscal Policy Analysis, Applied Time Series

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) George Mason University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Minnesota

Biography

Eric Leeper is the Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor in Economics at the University of Virginia, a position he began in 2018. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, director of the Virginia Center for Economic Policy at the University of Virginia, an external advisor to the Swedish central bank, and a member of the Research Council of the Bundesbank.

      His research focuses on theoretical and empirical models of macroeconomic policy, with special emphasis on monetary-fiscal policy interactions. One line of work focuses on a new mechanism—called the “fiscal theory of the price level”—by which fiscal policy can influence economic activity and inflation. Recent research examines the economic impacts of government spending, the macroeconomic consequences of alternative resolutions to long-run fiscal imbalances, and the modeling of the “fiscal limit” and sovereign risk.

      Leeper received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1989 and a B.S. in economics from George Mason University in 1980. Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia, Leeper spent 23 years at Indiana University and eight years in the Federal Reserve System. Leeper was born in Isfahan, Iran, and spent his school-age years in Taiwan, Malaysia, Seattle, Hong Kong, and Northern Virginia.

      In coming years, Leeper’s research will focus on the policies that allowed the United States to recover from the Great Depression and on a project with the International Monetary Fund to quantify fiscal limits across countries.

Selected Publications

“Equilibria Under ‘Active’ and ‘Passive’ Monetary and Fiscal Policies,” Journal of Monetary Economics 27(1): 129-147, 1991

“The Dynamic Impacts of Monetary Policy: An Exercise in Tentative Identification,” Journal of Political Economy 102(6): 1228-1247, 1994

“Fluctuating Macro Policies and the Fiscal Theory,” in Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, eds., NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2006 (Cambridge: MIT Press):
247-298

“Generalizing the Taylor Principle,” American Economic Review 97(3): 607-635, 2007

“Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows,” Econometrica 81(3): 1115–1145, 2013

“Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass,” American Economic Review 107(8): 2409–2454, 2017

Tello Trillo

Sebastian Tello-Trillo

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, Room L031

Fields of Interest

Health Economics, Development Economics, Public Economics

Kinda Hachem

Kinda Hachem

Associate Professor of Business Administration


Office Address

Darden School of Business, FOB 262

Fields of Interest

Macroeconomics, Banking and Monetary Economics

Hudson

Sally Hudson

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, Room L032

Fields of Interest

Labor and Public Economics and Applied Econometrics

McGee

Dylan McGee

Visiting Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 211

Hours: Monday 1:00 - 3:00pm; Thursday 3:30- 4:30pm, Hours: Zoom: by Request: Friday 10:00am - 11:00am

Ashley Watkins

Department Finance and Administration Manager


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 233

Anirban Chattopadhyaya

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Biography

Major(s): Computer Science and Economics

Hometown: Medford, NJ

Passions: Skiing, Playing Piano, Cooking

Joe Anderson

Education

MBA (Finance Certificate), Creighton University, 2016

BBA, Economics (Public Policy Emphasis), University of Georgia, 2013

Selected Publications

"Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages" with James Bailey and Diana Thomas, Public Choice, 2019, 180(1): 91-103

Allison Sullivan

Biography

Majors: Economics, Global Public Health; Minor: Global Sustainability

Hometown: Richmond, VA

Fun Fact: My favorite food is pancakes, and I'm a certified EMT (unrelated, but still fun!)

Biography

Major(s): Economics and Computer Science 

Hometown: Williamsburg, VA

Biography

Majors: Economics and Psychology

Minor: Environmental Science

Hometown: Centreville, Virginia

Things I enjoy: Gardening, Yoga, Bees, and Board Games!

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Avantika Prabhakar

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Diego Briones

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Soo Youn Kang

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Eutteum Lee

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Lingmin Bao

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Ritika Gupta

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Xuran (Alex) Sheng

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Anderson Frailey

Bengt Söderlund

Post-doctoral Researcher


Fields of Interest

International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Economic Geography

Education

PhD in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics (2019)
BA  in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics (2012)

Job Market Paper

“The Importance of Business Travel for Trade: Evidence from the Liberalization of the Soviet Airspace”

Selected Publications

“Capital Freedom, Financial Development and Provincial Economic Growth in China,” with Patrik Tingvall (The World Economy, 2017)
“Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts and Institutions,” with Patrik Tingvall and Ari Kokko (Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2014)
“Dynamic Effects of Institutions on Firm-Level Exports,” with Patrik Tingvall (Review of World Economics, 2014)

Shan Aman-Rana

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 248

Hours: Wednesday 11:30am - 12:30pm

Fields of Interest

Development Economics, Organisational Economics and Political Economy

Education

London School of Economics, PhD (2019),
London School of Economics MRes Economics (2014) 
London School of Economics MSc. Economics (2011)

Gaurav Chiplunkar

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Darden Business School

Fields of Interest

Development and Labor Economics

Siying Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University; UVA PhD, 2018


Fields of Interest

Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Health, Applied Econometrics

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Virginia (2018)
MA in Economics, University of Virginia (2013)
BS in Mathematics and Economics, Wuhan University (2011)

Job Market Paper

“Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses: Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market”

Working Papers

"Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses: Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market”

“Can Growth Conquer All? The Pollution-Mortality Relationship in High-Income High-Pollution Hong Kong,” with Jonathan Colmer, Dajun Lin and Jay P. Shimshack

Selected Publications

“Opioid Deaths and Local Health Care Intensity: A Longitudinal Analysis of the U.S. Population, 2003-2014,” with Dajun Lin and Christopher J. Ruhm. Forthcoming at American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Breastfeeding, Schooling and Income: Insights from the Indonesian Family Life Survey,” with Randall Lutter, Christopher J. Ruhm and Dajun Lin, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 15.1(2019): e12651.

Stefan Ruediger

Visiting Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 211

Hours: Wednesday 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Nicole Fleskes

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Justin Garrison

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Makoto Tanaka

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Mo Van de Sompel

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Fatimah Shaalan

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Berrin Ozcan

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Abigail Matthew

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Saran Mishra

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Aishwarya Kekre

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Evelyn Lucille Conrad

Gillian Courtney

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Chunru Zheng

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Hisham Yacob Patel

John Wilhoite

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Shengyu Wang

Eric Robertson

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Yen Ling Tan

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Jiahao Jiang

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Ashwin Nair

Marcella Cartledge

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Anmol Agarwal

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DeShawn Vaughan

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Zitian Wang

Colin Williams

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Tommy Willingham

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Camille Wixon

William Shobe

Visiting Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 219

Hours: By appointment
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Michael Alamaguer

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Pallavi Wats

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Pin-Chao Wang

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Mark (Turner) Stevens

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Braden Wagner

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Yeokyung Park

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Guang-Xuan (Eric) Zhou

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Hanjoon Kwon

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Uchechukwu (Uche) Okonkwo

Julie Holland Mortimer

Kenneth G. Elzinga Professor in Economics and the Law


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 250

Hours: By Appointment only

Fields of Interest

Empirical Industrial Organization ​

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Carleton College

Master of Arts (MA), University of California, Los Angeles

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Los Angeles

 

Selected Publications

Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence,' with Christopher T. Conlon, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 129, No. 12, (2021): 3357-3404.

'Empirical Properties of Diversion Ratios,' with Christopher T. Conlon, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol 52, Issue 4 (2021): 693-726.

'Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment,' with Hong Luo, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2021).

'Empirical Evidence on Conditional Pricing Practices,' with Bogdan Genchev, Anti-trust Law Journal, Vol 81, No 2 (2017): 343-370.

'Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments,' with Hong Luo, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol 26, Issue 2 (2017): 499-528.

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Daniel (Danny) Podratsky

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Patrick (Pat) Edwards

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Daniel Thomas

Kristina Johnson

Graduate Coordinator


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 249

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Jiarui (Jerry) Qian

Roger Farmer

Visiting Scholar


Megan Stevenson

Associate Professor of Law


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Associate Professor of Economics


Education

  • Ph.D.University of California at Berkeley 2016

  • M.S.University of California at Berkeley 2011

  • B.A.University of California at Berkeley 2009

Minjung Kim

Visiting Scholar


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 112

Noah Myung

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, Room L005

Fields of Interest

Experimental Economics, Applied Game Theory, Defense Economics

Education

Ph.D, California Institute of Technology

MS, California Institute of Technology

BS, University of California, Los Angeles

Derek Wu

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics


Office Address

Garrett Hall, Room 007

Fields of Interest

Public Economics, Labor Economics

Education

University of Chicago, Ph.D. (2021)

Princeton University, A.B. (2013) 

Bo Sun

Associate Professor of Business Administration


Office Address

Darden School of Business, Room 233

Fields of Interest

Information Economics, Finance and Macroeconomics

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Virginia. 

Sushma Shukla

Visiting Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 219

Hours: Friday 10:00 - 12:00pm via Zoom (https://virginia.zoom.us/my/prof.shukla )

Ken Tyburski

Computer Engineer


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 217

Jennifer Wise

Undergraduate Coordinator


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 209

Hours: Walk in hours: Tue/Thu 1-2:30pm Wed 9-10:30am

Abbie Copperthite

Biography

Name: Abbie Copperthite

Year: First-Year

Major: Economics

Hometown: Chesapeake, Virginia

Short Bio: Abbie is a member of the Women’s Business Forum at McIntire. She is also a new member of the ECO Student Advisory Board, where she is excited to help plan ECO events that can educate and assist her peers with their career goals. An ECO project that Abbie is excited for is the Career Forum in the spring.

Vladimir Smirnyagin

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, room 222

Hours: Monday 10:00am - 12:00pm

Fields of Interest

Macro, Finance

Education

Higher School of Economics (B.A.)

New Economic School (M.A.)

University of Minnesota (Ph.D.)

Felipe Saffie

Asst. Professor of Business Adminstration


Office Address

Darden School, FOB 197

Emma Harrington

Assistant Professor


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 255

Hours: Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00pm or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Labor, Personnel, Law & Economicvs, and Crime

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Williams College
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University

Rachel Choi

Biography

Name: Rachel Choi

Year: Fourth Year

Major: Economics

Minor: Government

Hometown: Fairfax, VA

Short Bio: Rachel serves as Co-Chair of the ECO Student Advisory Board, where she helps inform ECO programming and decision making. She is also a member of the club field hockey team at UVA and founder of the undergraduate Women in Econ Club. Rachel has been a part of the ECOSAB since her second year, and she hopes to give back to the Economics department as it has afforded her many career and personal development opportunities.

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Ella O’Hanlon

Biography

Name: Ella O’Hanlon

Year: Third-Year

Major: Economics

Minor: Computer Science

Hometown: Milton, MA

Short Bio: Ella is a third year economics major who has served as the Treasurer of the Girls Who Code club for the past two years. She also tutors middle school students in French once a week and served as a Research Assistant for the department of Computer Science during her second year. Ella’s favorite economics course at UVA was intermediate microeconomics. She joined ECOSAB this year because of her love for economics and great experience at events that ECOSAB helped create!

JP Hoffman

Biography

Name: JP Hoffman

Year: Second-Year

Major: Economics

Minor: Statistics and Urban & Environmental Planning

Hometown: Orlando, FL

Short Bio: JP serves as co-president of the Economics Club at UVA, where he is passionate about bringing a love of economics to students of all disciplines. Working alongside the ECO, he hopes to strengthen the connection between students, employers, and professors. Outside of economics, JP is involved in SEED Consulting, the Jefferson Society, and music.

Ritvik Thakur

Biography

Name: Ritvik Thakur

Year: Third-Year

Major: Economics

Minor: Data Science

Hometown: Bristow, VA

Short Bio: Ritvik serves as an undergraduate teaching fellow for principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics. He joined the ECOSAB to get more involved in the economics community at UVa, and he wants to share his excitement about the economics with others. He can be found being an economics nerd at Alfred Marshall Society and when he is teaching his students. He is also an avid climber and gets outside on rock whenever he can.

Calvin Roe

Biography

Name: Calvin Roe
Year: Second-Year
Major: Economics and Applied Statistics
Hometown: Oak Park, Il
Short Bio: Calvin is a sports reporter for the Cavalier Daily and president of club men’s ultimate frisbee at UVA. In the classroom, he is passionate about modeling how the world works through economic concepts. He is grateful for all the exceptional resources of the Economics Career Office and hopes to share his love for the major in his time with ECOSAB.

Krishna Mohan Bhamidipati

Biography

Name: Krishna Mohan Bhamidipati

Year: Second-Year

Major: Economics and Applied Statistics

Minor: Mathematics

Hometown: Herndon, Virginia

Short Bio: Krishna works as an RA with PHD Candidate Ashwin Nair and can also be found working in the many mailrooms on grounds. He is also involved with the Virginia Consulting Group, Alfred Marshall Society, and Greek Life. Krishna joined ECOSAB this year after attending and volunteering at the Career Forum last year. His favorite economics course at UVA was Mathematical Microeconomics and is excited to share his passion for UVA's Economic Department with Current Students, Alumni, and Faculty.

Jessica Kripalani

Mark Plant

Visiting Faculty


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 220

Hours: Thursday 1:30 - 3:00pm

Steven Peterson

Visiting Faculty


Michael Moore

Visiting Faculty


ECO Event Coordinator


ECO Marketing Coordinator


Fatima Abdalla