Curriculum Vitae

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Amil K. Petrin

Home: 4300 North Marine Drive Chicago, IL 60613	Office: Department of Economics University of Minnesota 4-101 Hanson Hall 1925 Fourth Street South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: (612) 625-0145 Fax: (612) 624-0209
E-mail: petrin@umn.edu

Positions

August 2007-present, University of Minnesota, Associate Professor.

Fall 2007-present, National Bureau of Economic Research Associate.

May 2006-present, Member, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

July 2002-July 2007, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics.

Fall 2001-Winter 2002, Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization, Visitor.

July 1998-July 2002, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics.

Fall 1994 and 1995, University of Michigan, Department of Economics, Adjunct Lecturer.

1990-1992, Federal Reserve Board of New York, Assistant Economist.

Research Interests

Industrial Organization, Productivity and Reallocation, Adjustment Costs, Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics.

Education

August, 1998, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Michigan.
December, 1989, B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania.

Editorships

Co-Editor :
International Journal of Industrial Organization

Associate Editor :
Journal of Industrial Economics

Honors and Fellowships

Griliches Fellow (NBER National Fellow), 2002-2003.
Centel Foundation/Robert P. Ruess Scholar, 1999-2000.
Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Rackham (U-M Graduate School) Predoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Regents (U-M Graduate School) Fellowship, 1992-1994.

Publications

"The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable TV,'' (with Austan Goolsbee), Econometrica, March, 2004, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp.351-381.

"Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables,'' (with James Levinsohn), Review of Economic Studies, April 2003, Vol. 70(2), No. 243, pp. 317-342.

"Quantifying the Benefits of New Products: The Case of the Minivan,'' Journal of Political Economy, 110:705-729, 2002.

"Production Function Estimation in Stata Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables,'' (with James Levinsohn and Brian Poi), accompanies levpet.do stata procedure, Stata Journal, 2004, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.113-123.

Working Papers

"Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-level Data,'' (with James Levinsohn), revise and resubmit, American Economic Review.

"Tests for Omitted Attributes in Differentiated Product Markets,'' (with Kenneth Train), revise and resubmit, Journal of Econometrics.

"Control Function Approach to Endogeneity in Discrete Choice Models,'' (with Kenneth Train), solicited by Editor, Journal of Marketing and Research}.

"Control Function Corrections for Omitted Attributes in Differentiated Product Models,'' (with Kenneth Train).

"Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile,'' (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan).

"Consistent Policy Analysis when Some Heterogeneity is Unobserved.''

"Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data.''

Invited Presentations

American Economic Association Meetings, 2001-2005, 2007
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Cowles Conference, 2000, 2008
CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization, 2000, 2003
Dartmouth College
Department of Justice
Duke University
Econometric Society World Congress, 2005
European Econometric Association, 2006, 2007
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Trade Commission
George Washington University
Harvard University
Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6 Conference, 2001, Discussant
Inter-American Development Bank
International Industrial Organization Conference, 2003-2004, 2007, 2008
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mannheim University
Michigan State University
Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory 2008
Montana State University
Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, 2004
National Cable Television Association Convention, 2001
NBER Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 2000, 2008
NBER Econometrics of Price and Product Competition, 1999
NBER Industrial Organization Meeting, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006
NBER Industrial Organization Meeting, 1999, 2001, 2008 Discussant
NBER Productivity Meeting, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008
NBER Productivity Meeting, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 Discussant
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oakland University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
SITE Conference, 2000, 2008
Society for Economic Dynamics Conference, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
Stanford University
Statistics Canada
Syracuse University
Texas A&M University
Tufts University
Tinbergen Institute
University of British Columbia
University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of California San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign)
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Washington University
Wesleyan University
Yale University
World Bank
ZEW Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, 2001

Refereeing

American Economic Review
Econometrica
Economica
Economic Inquiry
Economic Letters
Economic Journal
European Economic Review
Industrial Relations
International Economic Review
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Journal of Business
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Law and Economics
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of the European Economic Association
Journal of Political Economy
National Science Foundation
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
RAND Journal of Economics
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Economic Studies
Review of Industrial Organization
Social Sciences and Humanities Canada