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March 25, 2005|Volume 33, Number 23


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Judith A. Chevalier



Economist appointed to Beinecke chair

Judith A. Chevalier, newly designated as the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Management (SOM), is an expert on industrial organization and corporate finance.

Chevalier studies competition in retail industries, particularly competition on the Internet. Her recent papers have examined the competition between the online book sellers Amazon and Barnes & Noble and a study of why prices don't rise during periods of peak demand.

Her many other research interests include the problems facing durable goods manufacturers; the interaction between firm capital structure and product market competition; the impact of liquidity restraints on markup, inventory and capital expenditure cyclicality; testing models of agency and career concerns; the impact of "noise traders" on financial markets; and cross-subsidization of activities within conglomerate firms.

In 1999, Chevalier won the first biennial Elaine Bennett Prize given by the American Economic Association in recognition of research by a young woman in any area of economics.

Chevalier received a B.A. from Yale College in 1989 (winning the Dickerman Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Economics) and went on to earn a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. That summer she was one of seven doctoral students who presented their work at conferences in Europe and Israel as part of the Review of Economic Studies tour.

After serving as assistant professor of economics at Harvard University 1993-1994, Chevalier joined the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, where she rose from an assistant professorship in 1994 to a full professorship in 1999. She came to SOM in 2001. At Yale, she chairs the Committee on Cooperative Research and is a member of the search committee for a new SOM dean.

Chevalier's other honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship, the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for a work published in the Journal of Finance, and a research grant and graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

The former editor of BE Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy, Chevalier is currently co-editor of the American Economic Review and advisory editor for Quantitative Marketing and Economics. She has also served as associate editor on numerous other publications.


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