Ted To

AREAS OF INTEREST: Industrial Organization, Labor Theory, International Trade

EDUCATION

• PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, 1992
• MA in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, 1990
• BS in Economics from the University of Delaware, 1987

EXPERIENCE

• Research Economist, Division of Price and Index Number Research, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (September 2000-present)
• Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University (May 2005-August 2007)
• Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, England (Mar 1998-Aug 2000)
• Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (Aug 1995-Feb 1998)
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh (July 1994-July 1995)
• International Economist, Research Division, U.S. International Trade Commission (June 1993-June 1994)
• CentER fellow at Tilburg University, Holland (September 1992-May 1993)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor European Economic Review.
Referee for American Economic Review, Bulletin of Economic Research, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economica, Economics Bulletin, International Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Economic Integration, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Labour Economics, Manchester School, Operations Research, Oxford University Press, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of International Economics and Southern Economic Journal.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• "Antidumping, Signaling and Cheap Talk", 2007, Journal of International Economics, forthcoming (with Jim Cassing).
• "A Theory of Credit Cards," 2007, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(3), 583-595, (with Bob Chakravorti).
• "Strategic Resource Extraction, Capital Accumulation and Overlapping Generations," 2005, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(2), 378-386 (with Len Mirman).
• "Is Perfect Price Discrimination Really Efficient? Product Variety with Free Entry," 2004, RAND Journal of Economics, 35(4), 762-776 (with V. Bhaskar).
• "Oligopsony and the Distribution of Wages," 2003, European Economic Review, 47(2), 371-399, (with V. Bhaskar).
• "Oligopsony and Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets," 2002, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(2), 155–174, (with V. Bhaskar and Alan Manning).
• "Too Cool for School? Signaling and Countersignaling," 2002, RAND Journal of Economics, 33(4), 630-649, (with Nick Feltovich and Rick Harbaugh). Short write-up in The Economist.
• "Can Reducing Barriers to Entry Worsen Market Performance? A Model of Employee Entry," 2001, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19(5), 695–704, (with Andrew Burke).
• "Consumer Switching Costs and Private Information," 1999, Economics Letters, 63, 369–375, (with Erick Elder).
• "Dynamics and Discriminatory Import Policy," 1999, Canadian Journal of Economics, 32(4), 1072–83.
• "Minimum Wages for Ronald McDonald Monopsonies: A Theory of Monopsonistic Competition," 1999, The Economic Journal, 109, 190–203, (with V. Bhaskar).
• "Risk and Evolution," 1999, Economic Theory, 13(2), 329–343.
• "Multi-Period Competition with Switching Costs: An Overlapping Generations Formulation," 1996, Journal of Industrial Economics, 44, 81–87.
• "Export Subsidies and Oligopoly with Switching Costs," 1994, Journal of International Economics, 37, 97–110.
• "Infant Industry Protection with Oligopoly and Learning-by-Doing," 1994, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 3, 199–212.
• "Domestic Trade and Transportation Costs as Barriers to International Trade," 1993, Canadian Journal of Economics, 26, 208–221, (with Donald Rousslang).
• "More Realism in the Prisoner's Dilemma," 1988, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32, 402–408.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Monopsonistic Competition in Formal and Informal Labor Markets" forthcoming in Labor Markets and Economic Development, ed. R. Kanbur and J. Svejnar, New York: Routledge Press (February 2008).

WORKING PAPERS

• "False Modesty" June 2008, (with Rick Harbaugh).
• "Discriminatory Opportunism" November 2007, (with Rick Harbaugh).
• "Simple Dynamic Oligopoly," March 2006 (with Curtis Eberwein).
• "Dixit-Stiglitz Monopsonistic Competition and Minimum Wages," March 2004 (with V. Bhaskar).
• "Brand Dummy Variables in Hedonic Regressions: A Study Using Stereo Receiver Scanner Data," 2004, (with Teague Ruder).

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Estimating Employment Responses to Minimum Wage Changes Using Administrative Data," (with D. Aaronson and E. French).
• "Estimating Search Frictions and Preference Heterogeneity over Job Characteristics," August (with P. Sullivan).
• "Monopsonistic Competition, and Worker and Job Diversity," (with V. Bhaskar and P. Sullivan).
• "Quantity versus Quality of Characteristic Data in Hedonic Regressions," (with T. Ruder and M. Silver).

last modified: June 23, 2008