Judith Chevalier

Judith Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Industrial Organization program. She received her BA from Yale and her PhD in Economics from MIT. Since that time, she has served on the faculties of Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Yale.

Professor Chevalier is the author of numerous articles in the areas of finance, industrial organization, marketing, the gig economy, and the digital economy. She frequently consults on antitrust, intellectual property and other issues through the Analysis Group. She is a past co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the Rand Journal of Economics. She has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and on the board of the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Organization Society.

Professor Chevalier is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.

Professor Chevalier’s research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization. Some of her recent research examines the interaction between customer reviews and firm strategy, consumer foresight in markets for durable goods, the impact of state regulations in the market for funeral products and services, and the taste for leisure as a determinant of occupational choice. She has written a series of papers on the economics of electronic commerce, the interaction between firm capital structure and product market competition, price seasonality and cyclicality, and tests of models of agency relationships and career concerns, and firm diversification. Recently, her work has focused on the effects of new technologies on firms, individuals, and policy. She is a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the Rand Journal of Economics.

EDUCATION

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993 BA, Yale University, 1989

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Elected Fellow , Econometric Society, 2013-Present
• William F. O’Dell Award , Journal of Marketing Research, 2011
• Elected member , American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006-present
• Elected member , American Economic Association Executive Committee, 2005-2008
• Elaine Bennett prize , 1999
• Sloan Research Fellow , Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997-1999

SELECTED ARTICLES

The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers M. K. Chen, J. Chevalier, Peter E. Rossi, and Emily Oehlsen Journal of Political Economy Forthcoming

Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution J. Chevalier and A. Kashyap American Economic Journals: Policy 2019

Comment on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization J. Chevalier Economics of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chicago Press 2019

Channels of Impact: User Reviews when Quality is Dynamic and Managers Respond J. Chevalier, D. Mayzlin, and Y. Dover Marketing Science 2018

The CAPS Prediction System and Stock Market Returns C. Avery, J. Chevalier, and R. Zeckhauser Review of Finance 2016

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

Differentiated to Death? J. A. Chevalier, D. E. Harrington and F. Scott Morton Manuscript, Yale University 2013

Consumer Search and Monetary Policy Non-Neutrality J. Chevalier, V. Guerrieri and A. Kashyap (work in progress

Entry and Market Size: The College Textbook Market J. Chevalier & A. Goolsbee