Ambarish Chandra

Bio

Ambarish Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy in the Department of Management, University of Toronto-Scarborough, with a cross-appointment to the Business Economics area at Rotman.  He was previously a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. Ambarish''s research is in the area of industrial organization and applied microeconomics. His primary interest is in media industries, particularly advertising markets. He has examined the importance of targeted advertising, studied price dispersion in gasoline markets, and evaluated the effect of government subsidies for hybrid vehicles. His current work examines travel and trade across the U.S.-Canada border.

Academic Positions

2018- Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management and Department of Management UTSC 2011-present Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management and Department of Management UTSC 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Selected Publications - Papers

How Does Advertising Depend on Competition? Evidence from U.S. Brewing Chandra, Ambarish and Matthew Weinberg Management Science Issue:Forthcoming

Revisiting the Relationship between Competition and Price Discrimination Chandra, Ambarish and Mara Lederman American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2018

Who Loses When Prices Are Negotiated? An Analysis of the New Car Market Chandra, Ambarish, Sumeet Gulati and James Sallee Journal of Industrial Economics 2017

Newspapers and Magazines Chandra, Ambarish and Ulrich Kaiser in The Handbook of Media Economics, Simon Anderson, David Stromberg and Joel Waldfogel eds., Elsevier 2016

Targeted Advertising in Magazine Markets and the Advent of the Internet Chandra, Ambarish and Ulrich Kaiser Management Science 2014

The Economics of Cross-Border Travel Chandra, Ambarish, Keith Head and Mariano Tappata Review of Economics and Statistics 2014