Amil Petrin

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Economics, University of Michigan, 1998
• B.A. summa cum laude: Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Specialties

• Industrial organization
• Applied microeconomics
• Econometrics

Publications

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Publications

• “Imputation in U.S. Manufacturing Data and Its Implications for Productivity Dispersion: Kirk White and Jerome Reiter, Petrin, Amil, Review of Economics and Statistics, 100, 502 - 509, 2018.
• Estimating Production Functions when Capital is Measured with Error: Kyoo-il Kim, Suyong Song, Petrin, Amil, Journal of Econometrics, 190(2), 267-279, 2016.
• Tests for Price Endogeneity in Differentiated Product Models: Kyoo-il Kim, Petrin, Amil, Journal of Econometric Methods, January, 47-70, 2015.
• Exploring Reallocation’s Apparent Negative Contribution to Growth: Mitsukuni Nishida, Saso Polanec, Petrin, Amil, Journal of Productivity Analysis, April, 1-24, 2013.
• Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with Application to Chile and Firing Costs: Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Petrin, Amil, Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(1), 286-301, 2013.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Professor: Department of Economics. 2015 - present
• Associate Professor: Department of Economics. 2007 - 2014
• Director of Graduate Studies: Department of Economics. 2015 - 2018
• Consultant: National Center for State Courts. 2014 - 2018
• Consultant: National Bank of Belgium. 2013 - present
• Research Associate: National Bureau of Economic Research. 2007 - present
• Member: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. 2006 - present
• Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. 2002 - 2007
• Visitor, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization: Northwestern University. 2001 - 2002
• Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. 1998 - 2002
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Economics: University of Michigan. 1994 - 1995
• Assistant Economist: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 1990 - 1992

Outreach

• : U.S. Census Advisory Committee. 2009 - 2011
• Associate Editor: International Journal of Industrial Organization. 2009 - 2012
• Associate Editor: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 2019 - present
• Board of Directors: Minnesota Economics Association. 2012 - 2018

Research

• Consultant, National Center for State Courts 2014 - present
• Consultant, National Bank of Belgium 2013 - present
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research 2007 - present
• Member, Conference in Income and Wealth 2006 - present

Awards

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Awards

• National Science Foundation Grant, 2012 - 2016
• Griliches Fellow (NBER National Fellow), 2002 - 2003
• Centel Foundation/Robert P. Ruess Scholar, 1999 - 2000
• Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1996 - 1997

Courses

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Courses

• Econ 8205/8206: Applied Econometrics
• Economics 8601/8602: Industrial Organization and Government Regulation