Scholars / UChicago Scholar
Ali Hortaçsu
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
Hortaçsu's work is focused on empirically assessing the efficiency of markets. He utilizes detailed micro-level data from the markets studied to estimate preference and technology parameters that rationalize individual behavior. He then uses the estimated preferences and technological parameters to construct (constrained) “efficient” benchmarks and assess how far observed market outcomes are from efficiency. This comparison also motivates discussions of how market rules can be altered to improve efficiency. He has applied the above framework...
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Jun 2, 2023Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy
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May 18, 2023Representation and Hesitancy in Population Health Research: Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Study
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Apr 23, 2021Financial Fragility in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Investment Funds in Corporate Bond Markets
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Apr 25, 2020Estimating the Fraction of Unreported Infections in Epidemics with a Known Epicenter: An Application to COVID-19
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Mar 2, 2020Random-Coefficients Logit Demand Estimation with Zero-Valued Market Shares
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Oct 21, 2019Design and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Field Experiments in Panel Data Settings
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Sep 25, 2019Prices and Promotions in U.S. Retail Markets: Evidence from Big Data
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Apr 18, 2019The Production, Relocation, and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines
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Feb 1, 2019Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
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Jul 27, 2018How Wide Is the Firm Border?
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Feb 18, 2018Prices and Promotions in U.S. Retail Markets: Evidence from Big Data
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Jun 8, 2023Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy
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May 11, 2021Financial Fragility in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Investment Funds in Corporate Bond Markets
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Jun 1, 2020Key Economic Facts About COVID-19
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Apr 14, 2020Estimating the Fraction of Unreported COVID-19 Infections
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