Judith Chevalier

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Judith Chevalier
Alma mater Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Children3 [1]
AwardsElected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2013

Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006

Elaine Bennett Research Prize, 1999
Scientific career
Fields Economics
Institutions Harvard University, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Yale School of Management
Doctoral advisor Paul L. Joskow [2]
David Scharfstein [2]
Website http://som.yale.edu/judith-chevalier

Judith Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics at Yale University. She is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the RAND Journal of Economics. In 1998, she was the first to receive the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. [3]

She graduated from Yale University in 1989 and earned her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. She was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University for a year before taking a position at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she was awarded tenure in 1997. In 2001, she returned to Yale as a professor in the Yale School of Management. [4]

Her research focuses on applied microeconomics, particularly empirical industrial organization studies of e-commerce and the financial industry. [5] She has written widely cited papers about online reviews, with one paper on online book reviews receiving more than 3500 citations. [6] In recent years, she has studied the interaction of consumer reviews and firm behavior, the economics of electronic commerce, and the effects of new technologies on workers, consumers, firms, and regulators. Some of her more recent research focuses on the impact of state regulations in the market for funeral products and services and the taste for leisure as a determinant of occupational choice. [7]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Chevalier, Judith A. (1993). Capital structure and product market competition: an empirical analysis of the supermarket industry (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. "GSB professor Judith Chevalier receives first Bennett Research Prize". chronicle.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
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  5. Caren Grown. "An Interview with Dr. Judith Chevalier, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago: 1999 Elaine Bennett Research Prize Recipient". Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
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