Economics Faculty : Recent Achievements
Honors and Awards in 2020 & 2021
Vivian Ho was elected to the National Academy of Medicine . Jeremy Fox was awarded the Shatto Endowed Chair of Economics .
Mallesh Pai won the 2020 award for the best paper published in the American Economic Journal : Microeconomics for his paper “ Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions ” ( with Rahul Deb ).
Michele Biavati won the 2020 Malcolm Gillis Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching in Economics . Rossella Calvi won the 2020 Ralph O ’ Connor Award for Distinction in Teaching and Researchin Economics .
Articles Accepted or Published Since July 1 , 2020
Rossella Calvi , “ Why Are Older Women Missing in India ? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty ,” Journal of Political Economy , July 2020 , pp . 2453-2501 .
Rossella Calvi , “ The Protestant Legacy : Missions , Gender , and Human Capital in India ,” Journal of Human Resources , forthcoming ( with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Federico Mantovanelli ).
Maura Coughlin , “ Heterogeneous Choice Sets and Preferences ,” Econometrica , forthcoming ( with Levon Barseghyan , Francesca Molinari and Joshua C . Teitelbaum ).
Flávio Cunha , “ The Econometrics of Early Childhood Human Capital and Investments ,” Annual Review of Economics , forthcoming ( with Eric Nielsen and Benjamin Williams ).
Flávio Cunha , “ You are What Your Parents Think : Height and Local Reference Points ,” Journal of Econometrics , forthcoming ( with Fan Wang , Esteban Puentes and Jere Behrman ).
Flávio Cunha , “ Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Skill Formation Predict Investments in Children One Year Later ,” Journal of Econometrics , forthcoming ( with Irma Elo and Jennifer Culhane ).
Hülya Eraslan , “ Learning While Setting Precedent ,” Rand Journal of Economics , forthcoming ( with Ying Chen ).
Hülya Eraslan , “ Dynamic Legislative Bargaining ,” forthcoming in Current Research and Future Directions in Bargaining , edited by Kyle Hyndman and Emin Karagozoglu , London : Palgrave Macmillan ( with Kirill Evdokimov and Jan Zapal ).
Jeremy Fox , “ A Note on Nonparametric Identification of Distributions of Random Coefficients in Multinomial Choice Models ,” Annals of Economics and Statistics , forthcoming .
Peter Hartley , “ Electricity Reform and Retail Pricing in Texas ,” Energy Economics , forthcoming ( with Kenneth Medlock and Olivera Jankovska ).
Peter Hartley , “ Western Australia Domestic Gas Reservation Policy : Modeling the Economic Impact with a CGE Approach ,” Economics Record , forthcoming ( with Kelly Neill , Rod Tyers and Philip Adams ).
Yunmi Kong , “ Sequential Auctions with Synergy and Affiliation Across Auctions , Journal of Political Economy , January 2021 , pp . 148- 181 .
Yunmi Kong , “ Not Knowing the Competition : Evidence and Implications for Auction Design ,” Rand Journal of Economics , Fall 2020 , pp . 840-867 .
Ted Loch-Temzelides , “ A Double Slit Experiment with Human Subjects ,” PLOS ONE , February 11 , 2021 ( with John Duffy ).
Ted Loch-Temzelides , “ Conservation , Risk Aversion , and Livestock Insurance : The Case of the Snow Leopard ,” Conservation Letters , February 4 , 2021 .
Ted Loch-Temzelides , “ Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention ,” Science , July 2020 , pp . 379-381 ( with Andrew P . Dobson , Stuart Pimm , Lee Hannah , Les Kauffman , Jorge A . Ahumada , Amy W . Ando , Aaron Bernstein , Jonah Busch , Peter Daszak , Jens Engelman , Margaret Kinnaird , Binbin Li , Thomas Lovejoy , Katarzyna Nowak , Patrick R . Roehrdanz , and Mariana M . Vale ).
Ted Loch-Temzelides , “ A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Jones Act : The Case of Global Tankers ,” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy , forthcoming ( with Igor Hernandez , Ken Medlock , and Anna Mikulska ).
Ted Loch-Temzelides , “ Hurricane Surge Risk Assessment of Petroleum Infrastructure under Changing Climate Conditions ,” Frontiers in Built Environment : Wind Engineering and Science , July 2020 ( with Majid Ebad Sichani , Katherine A . Anarde , Kendall Capshaw , Pedram Hassanzadeh , Rachel A . Meidl , Jamie E . Padgett , and Philip B . Bedient ).
Mallesh Pai , “ Algorithmic Collusion : Supra-Competitive Prices via Independent Algorithms ,” Marketing Science , January 2021 ( with Karsten Hansen and Kanishka Misra ).
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