Christian Rojas,
Assistant Professor
Forthcoming, Working and Under Review Papers | Work in Progress | Computer Code Available for Download | My Dissertation |
My interests are in Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics and Experimental Economics. Curriculum Vitae
Research (published or circulating at journals)
Industrial Organization:
The Role of Information and Monitoring on Collusion: An Experimental Assessment, R&R, RAND Journal of Economics.
Competitive and Welfare Effects of Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from U.S. Brewing, R&R Journal of Law and Economics.
Tax Incidence when Quality Matters: Evidence from the Beer Market (with T. Shi), R&R, International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Logit Models of Demand: A Word of Caution on the Market Potential Assumption (with D. Huang). Under review.
Countervailing Power and Vertically Differentiated Retailers (with S. Wang and N. Lavoie). Under review.
Cost pass-through with Network Externalities (with L. Baraldi). Under review.
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? 2008. Journal of Industrial Economics, 56, 809-39 (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)
Experimental and Education:
Eliciting Risk Preferences: When is Simple Better? (with C. Dave, C. Eckel and K. Johnson), R&R, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Market Power and the Lerner Index: A Classroom Experiment, under review.
Social norms of sharing in high school: Teen student giving in the dictator game (with C. Eckel, P. Grossman, A.de Oliveira, C. Johnson, and R Wilson)
Price Discrimination and Resale: A Classroom Experiment, Journal of Economic Education, 2008, 40, 229-244. (with A. Basuchoudhary, C. Metcalf, K. Pommerenke, D. Reiley, M. Rostek and J. Stodder).
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)
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)
Work in Progress
Welfare effects of Vertical Integration: An Empirical Analysis of the Soft Drinks Industry.
An Analysis of the Determinants of Cost Pass-Through Rates.
Local Buyer Market Power and Horizontally Differentiated Manufacturers (with S. Wang and N. Lavoie)
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)
