Debashrita Mohapatra
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I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut. I obtained my PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, where I was a part of the Industrial Organisation group.
Fields of Interest:
Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Email: debashrita.mohapatra@uconn.edu
Curriculum Vitae (CV): [PDF]
Publications:
Price dispersion across online platforms: Evidence from hotel room prices in London (UK) (with Debi Prasad Mohapatra, Ram Sewak Dubey) [Applied Economics, 2023] [Link to published version]
Estimating substitution patterns and demand curvature in Discrete-Choice models of product differentiation (with Cameron Birchall, Frank Verboven) [Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics] [Link to draft]
Working papers:
Dealer locations, mergers, and consumer welfare in the Automobile industry [Link to draft ] [Short video]
Evolution of market power in the European automobile industry [Link to draft]
Dealership network in the European automobile industry [Link to draft]
Welfare effects of physician-directed pharmaceutical promotion on prescription behaviors: evidence from India (with Debi Prasad Mohapatra and Christian Rojas)
Work in Progress:
Mergers, store locations, and jobs: Evidence from the US food retail industry (with Rigoberto Lopez, Sandro Steinbach)
Consumers shopping behavior in the online and offline market: Empirical evidence from U.S. coffee purchases. (with Mengjie Li and Rigoberto Lopez)
Evolution of entry threshold and competition in the US food retail industry (with Rigoberto Lopez, Felipe Kup Barbieri de Matos, Sandro Steinbach)
Competing for market entry - Regional tax Incentives and Market Distortions ( with Nadine Hahn)