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Oleksandr Shcherbakov

Email: shcherb@email.arizona.edu
Cell-phone: (520) 258-9688
Phone: (520) 325-0048
Fax: (520) 621-8450

	Welcome to my webpage. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Arizona and expect to complete my degree by May 2008. My research and teaching interests: Microeconomics Industrial organization Applied econometrics I am particularly interested in dynamic models of consumer and producer behavior.
Curriculum Vitae Dissertation abstract Job market paper Statement of teaching philosophy	My dissertation addresses three topics in empirical industrial organization. Each of the papers develops a structural model to answer an economic question that cannot be addressed by reduced form econometric specifications. In the first chapter, I develop a dynamic model of consumer behavior for paid television to measure potential switching costs faced by consumers. The second paper builds on the consumer dynamic model from the first chapter and extends it by establishing a dynamic model of producer behavior in markets with switching costs. I use the model to evaluate the optimal price and quality choices by cable providers under various counterfactual scenarios. The third study concerns identifying financially constrained firms by matching patterns of actual and theoretically predicted investments when capital markets are not perfect.
	Recent working papers Measuring consumer switching costs in the television industry Government regulation as collusion facilitating device: evidence from Ukrainian white sugar industry in 1993-2000 (with Elvira Bozhani, EERC project 06-131) Firm-level investment under imperfect capital markets in Ukraine (EERC project 04-137) Optimal price and quality choices by cable companies in the markets with consumer switching costs (work in progress)
	Teaching experience ECON300: Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions (3 week summer session 2007) ECON361: Intermediate Microeconomics (5 week summer session 2007) ECON200: Basic Economic Issues (5 week summer session 2006) ECON361: Intermediate Microeconomics (3 week summer session 2006) ECON300: Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions (5 week summer session 2005)

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