Sofia Berto Villas-Boas : Webpage

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas

Associate Professor

U California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 226 Giannini Hall, CA 94720-3310

CURRICULUM VITAE (in pdf), Short Bio .

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley.

Licenciatura (B.A.), Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
SIEPR- Giannini Data Center
TEACHING

EEP 142 (Industrial Organization with Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources), Spring Semester,[Course Materials].

ARE 202 (Microeconomic Modelling: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Industrial Organization), Spring Semester, [Course Materials].

ARE 298 (Thesis Workshop), Fall Semester, [Course Materials].
PUBLICATIONS

" Identification of Supply Models of Manufacturer and Retailer Oligopoly Pricing,", Economics Letters, 90, N. 1, 132-140 , Link , 2006, CUDARE Working Paper 993 , joint with Rebecca Hellerstein.

"Effects of Sales on Brand Loyalty," Journal of agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: Link , Vol 4: No.1, Article 5, 2006, CUDARE Working Paper 1011,joint with Rui Huang and Jeffrey Perloff.

"An Introduction to Auctions," Journal of Industrial Organization Education, Link, Issue 1, Vol 1, art 5, 2006. .

"Got Organic Milk? Consumer Valuations of Milk Labels after the Implementation o f the USDA Organic Seal", Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: Link , Vol 5: No. 1, Art 4, 2007, and CUDARE Working Paper 1024, joint with Kristin Kiesel.

"Vertical Relationships Between Manufacturers and Retailers: Inference With L imited Data," The Review of Economic Studies, 2007, Vol. 74, 2, pp. 625-652. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com Link . Supplement: Simple 2 by 2 Model .

"Reformulating Competition?: Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55 (1) : 1-19, 2008, joint with Jen Brown, Justine Hastings and Erin Mansur, Link JEEM Science Direct , CUDARE Working Paper 1010 , JEEM Link .

"Using Retail Scanner Data for Upstream Merger Analysis", Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 3 (4): 689-715, Link JCLE article , CUDARE Working Paper 1030 , 2007 .

"Sales: Tests of Theories on Causality and Timing ", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26 (6): 1257-1273. joint with Peter Berck, Jen Brown and Jeffrey Perloff, CUDARE Working Paper 1031 , 2008 .

"Learning, Forgetting and Sales", CUDARE Working Paper 1020 , joint with J. Miguel Villas-Boas, Management Science, 54 (11): 1951-1960, Link November 2008.

"An Empirical Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Banning Wholesale Price Discrimination ," CUDARE Working Paper 1017, RAND Journal of Economics,40 (1): 20-45, 2009, Online Appendix .

"A Larger Slice or a Larger Pie? An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining Power in the Distribution Channel ", joint with Michaela Draganska and Daniel Klapper, forthcoming Marketing Science, 2008, CUDARE Working Paper 1046, 2008 .

"Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease ", CUDARE Working Paper 1023 , joint with Wolfram Schlenker, forthcoming American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, Online Appendix , Data used are stored at the SIEPR-Giannini Data Center .
RESEARCH UNDER SUBMISSION

"Another Nutritional Label—Experimenting with Grocery Store Shelf Labels and Consumer Choice," , joint with Kristin Kiesel, CUDARE Working Paper 1060 , 2008.

"Outsourcing and Pass-Through" joint with Rebecca Hellerstein, CUDARE Working Paper 1016 , 2009, NY Fed, Staff Report 251 .

" Short on shots: Can calls on self-restraint be effective in managing the scarcity of flu vaccines, and what do they reveal about behavior , joint with Alain deJanvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, CUDARE Working PAper 1013, 2006 .

"Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases," , joint with Dora Gicheva and Justine Hastings, CUDARE Working Paper 1044 , NBER Working paper 13614 , 2007 , Wall Street Journal Economics Blog, Dec 3 2007 .

"Buyer Power through Producer Differentiation,", joint with Claire Chambolle, CUDARE Working Paper 1042 , 2007.

Expert Opinion and the Demand for Experience Goods: An Experimental Approach, joint with James Hilger and Greg Rafert, CUDARE Working paper 1049, 2007.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

On Detecting Agent's Non Competitive Influence on Market Data, joint with Romy Abrantes-Metz and George Judge.

The Sideways Effects of Wine, joint with Frederico Finan, Michael Price, and Wes Yin.

Grocery Store Shelf Labels, Nutrition Information, and Consumer Choice, joint with Joshua P. Berning, Jill J. McCluskey, Hayley H. Chouinard, 2007.

Nutritional Information and Consumer Choices, joint with Kristin Kiesel 2008.

Identification of Pass-Through, joint with Rebecca Hellerstein.

Cross-Category Effects, Multimarket Contact and Strategic Pricing

Environmental Regulation and Arbitrage in Wholesale Gasoline, joint with Justine Hastings.

Vertical Contracts and Exchange Rates, joint with Rebecca Hellerstein.

Environmental Sustainability Labeling, joint with Eric Hallstein.
My Dad giving a talk in 1974, Portugal, Lisbon, in LNEC.
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