CURRICULUM VITAE Panle Jia
MIT, 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
Professional Experience Academic Positions • Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT, 2009 – • Assistant Professor, MIT, July 2006 – • Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2008 – 2009 • Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Economics 2009
Professional Affiliations • Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007 – • Member, American Economic Association and Econometric Society, 2006 –
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.A. in Economics, Tufts University, 1999 • B.A. in Economics, Fudan University, China 1997
Fields of Concentration: Industrial Organization Applied Econometrics Applied Microeconomics
Fellowships, Honors and Awards: Rudi-Dornbush Career Development Professorship, 2009-2012 Tufts Graduate and Undergraduate Economics Alumni Achievement Award 2008, Inaugural Recipient Advance Young Scientist Award, University of Arizona, 2007 Zellner Thesis Award for Best Dissertation in Business and Economics Statistics, American Statistical Association, 2007 Review of Economic Studies’ European Seminar Tour Speaker, 2006 Horowitz Foundation Fellowship for Social Policy, 2005 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2004 Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, 2004 Carl Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 2003 2
John Perry Miller Fund, Yale University, 2003 Fan Family Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2004 Champion in Ningxia Province, National High-School Math Olympic, China, 1993
Publications: “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
“What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retail Industry,” Econometrica, November, 2008
“Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry,” (with Steve Berry), forthcoming American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010.
“The Impact of Commissions on Home Sales in Greater Boston,” (with Parag Pathak), forthcoming American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 2010.
Working Papers: “Inference for Parameters Defined by Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure” (with Donald Andrews), Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica.
“Social Inefficiencies of Fixed Commission Structure in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry”, (with Parag Pathak), 2010.
“A Practical Solution to Medium-Sized Dynamic Models”, (with Alan Genz), 2009
“Semi-parametric Estimation of the Distribution of Fixed Costs in Entry Models,” MIT working paper.
Working in progress: “What You Get When Buying an Airline Ticket: An Empirical Analysis of Delays and Congestions,” (with Steve Puller)
“The Benefit of Retail Agglomeration,” (with Hanming Fang and Paul Schrimpf), 2008.
Conference Presentations and Invited Seminar Presentations: AEA, Wharton, Olin, Yale, John Hopkins 2010 (Scheduled) U. of Chicago, QME conference, 2009 AEA, Penn State, Tufts University, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University, U. of Maryland, DOJ, U. of Minnesota, 2008 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 3
Referee Service: American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Advisees: Maisy Wong (Wharton Business School, U Penn 2008) Rongzhu Ke (School of Economics and Finance, U of Hong Kong 2009)
Teaching Experience: Instructor, Introduction to Statistical Methods in Economics, MIT 2009, 2010 Instructor, Intermediate Micro, U Chicago 2009 Instructor, Graduate Industrial Organization, MIT 2007, 2008, 2010 Instructor, Micro Theory and Public Policy, MIT 2006, 2007, 2008
Selected Press Coverage: “The Economics of Airline Layovers”, New York Times, 2009.