University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
http://www.umn.edu/
College of Liberal Artepartment of Economics

Amil Petrin

 

Professor Amil PetrinAmil Petrin
Department of Economics
University of Minnesota
4-101 Hanson Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Telephone: (612) 625-0145
Fax: (612) 624-0209

E-mail: petrin@umn.edu


Amil K. Petrin is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and a Research Associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as an Editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization and taught previously at the University of Chicago.  His research focuses on developing methodologies that can be used to estimate how economic events like innovation and changes to government policy impact economic growth. He works on methods of estimating demand, with a particular focus on valuing the introduction of new goods in differentiated product markets.  He has looked closely at both minivans in the U.S. automobile market and satellite dish in the U.S. television market.  He has developed a method for estimating production functions and the theory that relates changes in plant-level production functions to aggregate changes in productivity.  He has shown how to decompose aggregate expenditures into plant-level terms related to changes in technical efficiency and to the reallocation of inputs.  He also has analyzed allocative inefficiencies in production induced by changes in firing cost laws in Chile.  His publications include articles in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies, and he has presented papers at numerous seminars and conferences.