Volodymyr Lugovskyy

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: Room 319, Old CE Building
Phone: 404.385.1363

Dr. Volodymyr Lugovskyy joins the School of Economics after spending four years as assistant professor of Economics at the University of Memphis. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2004. His research interests are in international trade, particularly in trade and product differentiation. His recent project is on the relationship between the domestic productivity and the welfare gains from trade. He has taught courses in international trade, microeconomics, and statistics.

Publications

  • "Domestic Productivity and Variety Gains from Trade"
    (with Adina Ardelean)
    Journal of International Economics, forthcoming
  • "The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping"
    (with David Hummels and Alexandre Skiba)
    Journal of Development Economics, vol 89(1), pages 84-97, May 2009
  • "International Pricing in a Generalized Model of Ideal Variety"
    (with David Hummels)
    Journal of Money Credit and Banking
    , Vol 41 (1), 3-33, Jan 2009
  • "Usable Data? Matched Partner Trade Statistics as a Measure of Transportation Costs"
    (with David Hummels)
    Review of International Economics, Vol 14(1), Feb 2006
  • "Caps on Bidding in All-Pay Auctions: Comments on the Experiments of A. Rapoport and W. Amaldoss"
    (with Emmanuel Dechenaux and Dan Kovenock)
    Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61, 276-283, 2006

Under Revision

  • "An Experimental Investigation of Overbidding in All-Pay Auction"

    (with Daniela Puzzello and Steven Tucker)
    Conditionally accepted, European Economic Review

  • "Monopolistic Competition and Optimal Product Diversity with Heterogeneous Firms"

    (with Luciana Echazu)

Selected Working Papers

  • "Quality Choice: Effects of Trade, Transportation Cost, and Relative Country Size"

    (with Alexandre Skiba)

  • "An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation in Asset Markets Using the Tatonnement Pricing Mechanism"

    (with Daniela Puzzello and Steven Tucker)

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