Ambarish Chandra

Ambarish Chandra

Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St. George Street
Toronto, ON, M5S 3E6
Phone: 416-978-7138

Department of Management
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4
Phone: 416-208-2695

Curriculum Vitae

E-mail: ambarishchandra@gmail.com

Research Interests:

Industrial Organization
Applied Econometrics
Advertising Markets
Airline Markets

Published and Accepted Papers:

Chandra, Ambarish and Matthew Weinberg, "How Does Advertising Depend on Competition? Evidence from U.S. Brewing", Management Science, Forthcoming. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish and Mara Lederman, "Revisiting the Relationship between Competition and Price Discrimination", American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10(2), 190-224, May 2018. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish, Sumeet Gulati and James Sallee, "Who Loses When Prices Are Negotiated? An Analysis of the New Car Market", Journal of Industrial Economics, 65(2), 235-274. PDF and Online Appendix
Chandra, Ambarish and Ulrich Kaiser, "Newspapers and Magazines", in The Handbook of Media Economics, Simon Anderson, David Stromberg and Joel Waldfogel eds., Elsevier, 2016. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish, Keith Head and Mariano Tappata, "The Economics of Cross-Border Travel," Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(4), 648-661, October 2014. PDF and Online Appendix. Note: this paper was formerly titled "Consumer Arbitrage Across a Porous Border."
Chandra, Ambarish and Ulrich Kaiser, "Targeted Advertising in Magazine Markets and the Advent of the Internet," Management Science, 60(7), 1829-1843, July 2014. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish and Mariano Tappata, (2011) "Consumer Search and Dynamic Price Dispersion: An Application to Gasoline Markets," Rand Journal of Economics, 42(4), 681-704. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish, Sumeet Gulati and Milind Kandlikar, (2010), "Green Drivers or Free Riders? An Analysis of Tax Rebates for Hybrid Vehicles," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 60(2), 78-93. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish and Allan Collard-Wexler, (2009), "Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: An Application to the Canadian Newspaper Industry," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18(4), 1045-1070. PDF
Chandra, Ambarish (2009), "Targeted Advertising: The Role of Subscriber Characteristics in Media Markets," Journal of Industrial Economics 57(1), 58-84. PDF

Work in Progress:

"Competition at Border Airports", with Mara Lederman.
"Price Discrimination according to Advance Purchases: New Evidence from a Regional Airline".
"Entry and Agglomeration in the U.S. Brewing Industry", with Matthew Weinberg.
"(In)Attention to Price Changes: High-Frequency Evidence from Border Crossings", with Keith Head.

Technical Note:

"The Effect of Porter Airlines' Expansion" (with Mara Lederman), March 2014. PDF

Last modified on July 1, 2018