Amit Gandhi

Assistant Professor, Economics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Published Papers

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

Working Papers

Nonparametric Methods for Ascending Price Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity (with Daniel Quint)

Rational Expectations at the Racetrack : Testing Expected Utility Theory using Prediction Market Prices

On the Nonparametric Foundations of Product Differentiated Demand Systems

Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models (with Jeremy Fox) [NEW VERSION]

Identifying Production Functions using Restrictions from Economic Theory (with David Rivers and Salvador Navarro) [NEW VERSION]

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

 

Works in Progress (will post soon!)

Cheap Sex - Explaining 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.