CURRICULUM VITAE Panle Jia
Department of Economics Phone: (617) 253-7229 MIT Fax: (617) 253-1330 50 Memorial Dr. Email: [email protected] Cambridge, MA 02142 http://econ-www.mit.edu
Education • Ph.D. in Economics (with distinction), Yale University, 2006 Dissertation Title: Entry and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries Dissertation Committee: Steven Berry (co-chair), Penny Goldberg (co-chair), Hanming Fang, Philip Haile • M.Phil. in Economics, Yale University, 2003
Fields of Concentration: Industrial Organization Applied Econometrics Applied Microeconomics
Employment and Affiliation • Assistant Professor, MIT, July 2006 –
Fellowships, Honors and Awards: Advance Young Scientist Award, University of Arizona, 2007 Zellner Thesis Award for Best Dissertation in Business and Economics Statistics, American Statistical Association, 2007 Selected by the Review of Economic Studies as a European Seminar Tour Speaker, 2006 Horowitz Foundation Fellowship, 2005 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2004 Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, 2004 Carl Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 2003 John Perry Miller Fund, Yale University, 2003 Fan Family Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2004 Champion in Ningxia Province, National Math Olympiad for High School Students, China, 1993
Teaching Experience: Instructor, Graduate Industrial Organization, MIT 2007 Instructor, Micro Theory and Public Policy, MIT 2006 Teaching Assistant, Industrial Organization, Yale University, 2005 Teaching Assistant, Graduate Econometrics II, Yale University, 2003 Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, Yale University, 2002
Research Experience: Research Assistant, Professor Goldberg, Yale University, 2002 Research Assistant, Professor Hall, Yale University, 2001
2
Papers: “The Benefit of Retail Agglomeration,” (with Hanming Fang and Paul Schrimpf), MIT Working paper, 2007.
“Confidence Regions for Parameters in Discrete Games with Multiple Equilibria, with an Application to Discount Store Locations” (with Donald Andrews and Steven Berry), working paper, Yale University, 2007
“What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retail Industry,” 2007, revised and resubmitted to Econometrica.
“Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study of Quinolones in India,” (with Shubham Chaudhuri and Penny Goldberg), American Economic Review, December, 2006
“Semi-parametric Estimation of the Distribution of Fixed Costs in Entry Models,” mimeo, Yale University, 2003
Conference Presentations and Invited Seminar Presentations: University of Arizona, Washington University, Penn State, 2007 AEA annual meeting, 2007 RESTUD, 2006 UCSD, UCLA, U Minnesota, Princeton, NUY, Harvard, U Chicago, Columbia, U Penn, MIT, U Michigan, Northwestern Kellogg, Duke, Wisconsin, Stanford, BU 2006 New York State University, Stony Brook, 2005 International Industrial Organization Conference, 2005 Chinese Economic Association in North American Annual Conference, 2004 Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, 2003
Professional Associations: American Economic Association Econometric Society
Referee Service:
American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics.