Matthew C. Weinberg
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Georgia—Athens

       Department of Economics, 512 Brooks Hall
Athens, GA 30602                

Office Phone:     (706) 542-0163

Cell: (706) 201-1603
E-Mail:        mweinber [at] uga [dot] edu

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Fields: Industrial Organization, Consumer Behavior, Applied Econometrics

Other Appointments: Visiting Economist at the Federal Trade Commission, 2008-2009. It is best to reach me via email during this time.

Editorial Board: Managerial and Decision Economics

Papers

• The Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, forthcoming
• Heterogeneity in Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement [w/ G. Mastrobuoni], revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
• An Evaluation of Merger Simulations (May 2008)
• Conditional Median Restrictions in Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes Models of Demand (December, 2002)

Courses

• Graduate Industrial Organization
• Undergraduate Theory of the Firm
• Undergraduate Principles of Microeconomics

Computer Code

• Non-linear Equation Solver for Stata/Mata (more robust than Stata 10’s stock code), csolve (contains two auxillary files, callf.do and callf_setup.do, csolve, and documentation)
• Bertrand Nash First-order Conditions using Logit Demand in Stata/Mata, logit

Graduate Industrial Organization Lecture Notes

· 2007-2008, UGA: These (rough) notes borrow from Rob Porter and Michael Whinston’s IO Course from Fall and Winter 2003, amongst other sources. The notes on entry and exit are partially based on lectures given by Allan Collard-Wexler.

o Fall

o Spring

Pictures

· Animal Spirits?