Welcome to my website!
I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University, where I do research in empirical industrial organization and health economics.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from KU Leuven, where I was part of the Industrial Organization group. Previously, I worked as an Associate at Analysis Group in Boston and held a postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Connecticut.
Fields of Interest:
Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Email: debashritamohapatra@gmail.com | debmohap@bu.edu
Curriculum Vitae (CV): [PDF]
Publications:
Estimating substitution patterns and demand curvature in Discrete-Choice models of product differentiation (with Cameron Birchall, Frank Verboven) [Published in Review of Economics and Statistics (2024): 1-40] [DOI]
Price dispersion across online platforms: Evidence from hotel room prices in London (UK) (with Debi Prasad Mohapatra, Ram Sewak Dubey) [Published in Applied Economics, 2023] [Link]
Competitive Effects of Store Format Entry into US Food Retailing (with Mengjie Li, Rigoberto Lopez, and Sandro Steinbach) [R&R, Agricultural Economics] [Link to draft]
Working papers:
Welfare effects of physician-directed pharmaceutical promotion on prescription behaviors: evidence from India (with Debi Prasad Mohapatra and Christian Rojas) [Link to Draft]
Dealer locations, mergers, and consumer welfare in the Automobile industry [Under Review] [Link to draft] [Short video]
Mergers, store locations, and jobs: Evidence from the US food retail industry (with Rigoberto Lopez, Sandro Steinbach) [Link to draft]
Evolution of market power in the European automobile industry [Link to draft]
Dealership network in the European automobile industry [Link to draft]
Work in Progress:
Managers and Nursing Home (with Keith Ericson, Ashvin Gandhi and Tal Gross)
The Nonprofit Price Disadvantage: Evidence from US hospitals (with Keith Ericson)
Competing for market entry - Regional tax Incentives and Market Distortions ( with Nadine Hahn)