Olga Shanks

PhD Candidate Economics

Researcher

Teacher

Stata expert

Olga Shanks

PhD Candidate Economics

Researcher

Teacher

Stata expert

Economics

August 11, 2021 Increasing Returns to Scale and Markups

I estimate the aggregate and industry-specific elasticities of scale and markups for the U.S. economy over the period from 1980…

January 7, 2021 Price Trends in Classic Car Auctions

I advance and test a theory that in sequential auctions price rises with the number of bidders. I allow for…

March 10, 2020 Monitoring of Bureaucracy as a Public Good

with Thomas Stratmann We model and empirically test the effects of citizen monitoring on services provided by bureaucrats. Monitoring by…