Sofia Berto Villas-Boas

Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor in Agricultural Economics

Email: sberto@berkeley.edu

U California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 223 University Hall, CA 94720-3310


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PUBLICATIONS

á       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.

á       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.

á       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 .

á       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 , <a href http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S009506961300020XÓ>Link forthcoming paper </a>.

á       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.

á       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

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