Amit Gandhi

Assistant Professor, Economics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Published Papers

Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices w/ P.A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, and F. Salanie (May 2009, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings)

Post-Merger Product Repositioning (March 2008, Journal of Industrial Economics)

Working Papers

You Are What You Bet: Eliciting Risk Attitudes from Racetrack Betting" (with P.A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, F. Salanie) [NEW VERSION FORTHCOMING]

Nonparametric Methods for Ascending Price Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity: An Empirical Study of Business to Business Procurement (with Daniel Quint) [NEW VERSION POSTED 8/14/2009]

Can Preference Heterogeneity Explain Gambling: The Case of Racetrack Betting" [NEW VERSION Posted 10/19/2009].

Inverting Demand Systems [previously entitled "On the Nonparametric Foundations of Product Differentiated Demand Systems]. Submitted. The link to this paper was previously broken - I aplogize for the inconvenience.

Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models (with Jeremy Fox) [NEW VERSION 07/24/09]. Submitted. The link to this paper was previously broken - I aplogize for the inconvenience.

Identifying Markups and Productivity from Plant Level Data (with David Rivers and Salvador Navarro) [NEW VERSION FORTHCOMING]

The Stochastic Response Dynamic - Computing Nash Equilibrium using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

 

Works in Progress (will post soon!)

Cheap Sex: Vertical Integration and the Rise of Sex and Violence on Broadcast Television (with Simon Wilkie and Matt Spitzer)

We propose that the change in the vertical organization of broadcast television brought about by the 1996 telecommunication act explains the dramatic rise in the incidence of sex and violence on television in the period between 1998-2004. Our bargaining model yields nontrivial predictions concerning the differences in the amount of sex and violence shown across networks, and our empirical analysis confirms these predictions, namely that Fox and CBS are more violent on average.

Full Identification of the Selection Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity: Explain the Consumer Credit Card Debt Puzzle (with Jeremy Fox and JF Houde)