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Christian Rojas, Assistant Professor

Photo of Christian RojasMy interests are in Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics and Experimental Economics. Curriculum Vitae

Forthcoming, Working and Under Review Papers

Industrial Organization:

Price Competition in U.S. Brewing. 2008. Journal of Industrial Economics, 56, 1-31 [lead article]

Demand for Differentiated Products: Price and Advertising Evidence from the U.S. beer Market. 2008. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26, 288-307 (with E. Peterson)

What Happens when Demand is Estimated with a Misspecified Model? , forthcoming, Journal of Industrial Economics (with D. Huang and F. Bass)

Retailers' Response to Wholesale Price Changes: New Evidence from Scanner-Based Quantity-Weighted Beef Prices. 2008. Agribusiness: An International Journal, 24, 1-15. [lead article] (with A. Andino and W. Purcell)

The Role of Information and Monitoring on Collusion: An Experimental Assessment (revised version coming soon)

Tax Incidence when Quality Matters: Evidence from the Beer Market (with T. Shi)

Experimental and Education:

Eliciting Risk Preferences: When is Simple Better? (with C. Dave, C. Eckel and K. Johnson)

Technology Improves Learning in Large Principles of Economics Classes: Using Our WITS, American Economic Review, P & P, 2006, 96, 2 (with C. Eckel and S. Ball)

Debt Aversion and the Demand for Loans for Post-Secondary Education, Public Finance Review, 2007, 35, 233-262 (with C. Eckel, K. Johnson, C. Montmarquette)

Price Discrimination and Resale: A Classroom Experiment, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Education (with A. Basuchoudhary, C. Metcalf, K. Pommerenke, D. Reiley, M. Rostek and J. Stodder)

Work in Progress

Competitive and Welfare Effects of Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from U.S. Brewing

An Analysis of the Determinants of Tax Pass-Through Rates.

Altruism in High School students (with C. Eckel, P. Grossman, K. Johnson, and A. Milano)

Computer Code Available for Download

Matlab Program to Run the Epps-Singleton Two-Sample Test of Equality of Distributions.

Description of Matlab files and how to run the test (Word File)
Matlab m-file that reproduces Epps-Singleton (1986) results (numerical_example.m)
Matlab m-file that runs the Epps-Singleton (1986) test, calculates p-value, and critical values (es.m)

My Dissertation (includes Code): HERE

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