Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

 

Department of Economics                                                                

London School of Economics & Political Science                     

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE                                                                       Phone:  +44 (0) 20 7955 7551    

United Kingdom                                                                              E-mail:  p.schmidt-dengler@lse.ac.uk

 

                                                                                                   

CV (in pdf)

                                                                       

Current Position:

            Lecturer, Department of Economics, London School of Economics (since June 2005)

 

Research Interests:

            Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

 

Education:     

            Yale University, Ph.D., December 2005

            Queen's University, M.A., October 2000

            University of Vienna, B.A., March 1998

 

Papers:

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI, manuscript, (revise and resubmit at Review of Economic Studies)

 

Asymptotic Least Squares Estimators for Dynamic Games (with Martin Pesendorfer), Review of Economic Studies, (2008) 75, 901-928

Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games: A Comment (with Martin Pesendorfer), Econometrica, Vol. 78, No. 2 (March, 2010), 833–842

N-Player Preemption Games (with Rossella Argenziano), manuscript, revised and resubmitted, July 2010

 

Preemption and the Efficiency of Entry (with Rossella Argenziano), manuscript, February 2010, submitted

 

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games (with Martin Pesendorfer), May 2003, NBER Working Paper No. 9726

 

A Structural Model of Aggregate US Job Flows: Another Look, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 18: 113-118, 2003

 

Austrian Demography and Housing Demand: Is there a Connection? (with G. Lee, B. Felderer and C. Helmenstein),

Empirica 28: 259-276, 2001. (Reprinted in: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2003, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences)

  

 

Research Grants:

 

STICERD Grant `Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: The Critical Access Hospital Program (joint G. Gowrisankaran, Claudio Lucarelli, and R. Town), 2008

 

ESRC Award `General Preemption Games and their Applications to Industrial Organization' (joint with Rossella Argenziano), 2006-2007

 

SSRC Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector Fellowship, 2004-2005

 

Prizes and Stipends:

 

Zellner Thesis Award for Best Dissertation in Business and Economics Statistics, American Statistical Association, 2006

(makes one chapter of PhD thesis eligible for publication in Journal of Business and Economics Statistics)

Young Economist Award, Austrian Economic Association (joint with Rossella Argenziano), 2008

Young Economist Essay Award, E.A.R.I.E, 2005

Carl Anderson Prize Fellowship, Cowles Foundation, 2004

Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2003

Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2004

Fulbright Scholarship, 2000 (declined)

Queen's University Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2000 

 

Teaching Experience:

 

            Lecturer, Economics of Industry for MSc Students, 2005/2006, LSE

            Lecturer, Empirical Methods in Applied Microeconomics for PhD Students, 2005, LSE

            Lecturer, Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, Summer 2005, LSE Summer School

            Teaching Fellow, Industrial Organization, Spring 2004, Yale University

            Teaching Fellow, Microeconomics, Fall 2002, Yale University

            Teaching Assistant, Economic History, Winter 2000, Queen's University

            Teaching Assistant, Introductory Economics, Fall 1999, Queen's University

 

Other Professional Experience:

 

Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization, since 2009

CES-Ifo Network Affiliate, since 2008

Member of the Academic Advisory Panel, UK Competition Commission, since 2008

Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Fall 2007

Visiting Professor, University of Porto, Faculdade de Economia, March 2007

 

Referee Service:

 

American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economica ,Economic Journal,

International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics,

Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies

 

Proposal Review:

 

National Science Foundation (USA), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada)

 

Invited Seminar Presentations:

 

Arizona, Birkbeck College, Central European University, Chicago (Graduate School of Business),

City University, Helsinki, IESE, Indiana, Leuven, London School of Economics, Mannheim,

Minnesota, Munich, Pompeu Fabra, Northwestern (Kellogg School of Management), NYU, Oxford,

UPenn, Regensburg, Texas/Austin, Tinbergen Institute, Toronto, Vienna, Wisconsin, Warwick,

Washington University (Olin School of Business), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

 

 

Invited/Refereed Conference Presentations:

Austrian Economic Association Annual Conference, May 2008

CES-Ifo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics, Munich, March 2008

Network of Industrial Economists, Bristol, July 2007

14th WZB conference on Markets and Politics, Berlin, October 2006 (discussant)

Society for Economic Dynamics, Vancouver, July 2006

Seventh CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization, Funchal, May 2006

CEPR Conference on Competition Policy for International Development, Growth and Trade, Brussels, December 2005 (discussant)

E.A.R.I.E. Conference, Porto, September 2005

Kiel-Munich Workshop on the Economics of Information and Network Industries, Munich, August 2005

Fellows' Conference of the Social Science Research Council's Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector, Los Angeles, November 2004

Conference on Matching Models in Economics, University of Toronto, May 2004

Numerically Intensive Economic Policy Analysis, Queen's University, May 2004

NBER Summer Institute, Boston, July 2003

Joint Conference of the European Real Estate Society and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Maastricht, June 1998

 

 

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