Sofia Berto Villas-Boas

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas

Associate Professor

U California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 232 Giannini Hall, CA 94720-3310

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MENTORING STUDENTS
SPUR . 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, Marketing Science, 29 (1):57-74 2010, CUDARE Working Paper 1046.

"Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease ", CUDARE Working Paper 1023 , joint with Wolfram Schlenker, 2009. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91 (4): 1140-1152, Online Appendix , Data used are stored at the SIEPR-Giannini Data Center .

Patterns of Pass-through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices , joint with P. Berck, E Leiptag, and Alex Solis, CUDARE Working paper 1082, 2009, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91 (5):1456-1461, Papers and Proceedings.

"Outsourcing and Pass-Through" joint with Rebecca Hellerstein, 2010, Journal of International Economics, 81: 170-183, CUDARE Working Paper 1016 , 2009, NY Fed, Staff Report 251 .

"Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases," , joint with Dora Gicheva and Justine Hastings, 2010, American Economic Review, P& P, Vol. 100 (May 2010) Issue 2: 480–484 , CUDARE Working Paper 1044 , NBER Working paper 13614 , 2007 , Wall Street Journal Economics Blog, Dec 3 2007 .

Expert Opinion and the Demand for Experience Goods: An Experimental Approach, joint with James Hilger and Greg Rafert, 2011, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (4): 1289-1296, CUDARE Working paper 1049, 2010.

Tracking the Libor Rate, joint with George Judge and Romy Abrantes-Metz, 2011. Applied Economics Letters, 18 (10):893-899 Link, CUDARE Working Paper 1108 .

" 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, 2010 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 76: 209-224 CUDARE Working PAper 1013.

"Can information costs affect consumer choice? Nutritional labels in a supermarket experiment," , joint with Kristin Kiesel, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 31 (2013): 153-163. Link , CUDARE Working Paper 1060 , 2010.

"Nutritional Labeling and Consumer Choices ," joint with Kristin Kiesel and Jill McCluskey, Annual Review of Resource Economics, vol3: 141-158, 2011,Link

Are consumers Color Blind? An Empirical Investigation of a Traffic Light Advisory for Sustainable Seafood, joint with Eric Hallstein, forthcoming Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, CUDARE Working paper 1088

Empirical Evidence on the Role of Non Linear Wholesale Pricing and Vertical Restraints on Cost Pass-Through, joint with Celine Bonnet and Pierre Dubois, CUDARE Working paper 1089 , 2009, CEPR link 2010 . forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.

Judge, G. and S. B. Villas-Boas, "An Information Theoretic Approach To Understanding The Micro Foundations of Macro Processes." Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 3 (1), 2013. Link available here .
RESEARCH UNDER SUBMISSION

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

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Hallstein, E., J. Hilger, and S. B. Villas-Boas, "Estimating Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Environmental Sustainability Labeling."

Carrera, Mariana P., S. B. Villas-Boas, "Generic aversion and observational learning in the over-the-counter drug market ."

Berck, P., J. Moe-Lange, A. Stevens, and S. B. Villas-Boas, "Measuring Consumer Responses to a Bottled Water Tax Policy."

Anderson, M., Kiesel, K., L. Smialkova, and S. B. Villas-Boas, "Taste and Food Education in Belarusian Secondary Schools."

Allain, M-L, C. Chambolle, S. Turolla, and S. B. Villas-Boas, "The impact of Retail Mergers on Food Prices: Evidence from France".

Toledo, C. and S. B. Villas-Boas, ""Food Borne Disease Outbreaks, Consumer Purchases and Product Perferences: The Case of the 2010 Salmonella Egg Outbreak in the U. S.".

Bonnet, C. and S. B. Villas-Boas, "An Analysis of Asymmetric Consumer Price Responses and Asymmetric Cost Pass-Throught in the French Coffee Market."

Bonnet, C., J. Hilger, and S. B. Villas-Boas, "Assessing Consumer Valuations of Product Quality in the Form of Expert Opinions."

The Sideways Effects of Wine, joint with Frederico Finan.

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

Last updated 2013