Amil Petrin

Department of Economics University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and National Bureau of Economic Research

Curriculum Vitae

Selected publications:

• Austan Goolsbee and Amil Petrin, "The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable TV," Econometrica , March, 2004, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp.351-381. PDF format of late draft, see Econometrica for final version.
• James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin, "Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables," Review of Economic Studies , April, 2003, Vol. 70(2), No. 243, pp. 317-342. PDF format of late draft, see REStud for final version
• Amil Petrin, "Quantifying the Benefits of New Products: The Case of the Minivan," Journal of Political Economy , 110:705-729, 2002.
  PDF format of late draft, see JPE for final version

Recent working papers:

• Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn, "Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data," May 2008, revise and resubmit, American Economic Review,
• Amil Petrin and Kenneth Train, "Tests for Omitted Attributes in Differentiated Product Models," April 2005, revise and resubmit, Journal of Econometrics, PDF format
• Amil Petrin and Kenneth Train, "Control Function Corrections for Omitted Attributes in Differentiated Product Markets," March 2006, solicited by editor, Quantititive Marketing and Economics, PDF format
• Amil Petrin and Jagadeesh Sivadasan, "Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile," December 2006, PDF format
• Amil Petrin, "The Use of Control Functions to Identify Demand when Errors are Non-Additive," November 2005.
• James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin, "On the Micro-Foundations of Productivity Growth," November 2003, PDF format
• Amil Petrin, "Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data," November 2002, PDF format
• Amil Petrin, "Consistent Policy Analysis When Some Heterogeneity Is Unobserved," June 2003, PDF format
• James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin , "When Industries Become More Productive, Do Firms?: Investigating Productivity Dynamics," January 1999, PDF format.

Stata files for Levinsohn-Petrin (2003) production function estimator (levpet.do):

• Stata Code (zipped file with ado routines) levpet.zip
• Amil Petrin, James Levinsohn, and Brian Poi "Production Function Estimation in Stata Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables," Stata Journal , 2004, PDF format This code can also be downloaded directly from Stata.

2007 Seminars:

• Workshop in Applied Microeconomics