Welcome to Andrew Ching's home page.
I am an assistant professor at Joseph Rotman School of
Management, University
of Toronto.
Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing, Industrial Organization and
Applied Econometrics.
Here is my C.V.
Research
· Dissertation
· Recent Publications
- “Bayesian
Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models,” (with Susumu Imai and
Neelam Jain) Econometrica, vol.
77(6), pp.1865-1899, 2009.
Presentation slides can be downloaded from here.
- “A
Dynamic Oligopoly Structural Model for the Prescription Drug Market After Patent Expiration,” forthcoming in International Economic Review. Presentation slides can be downloaded
from here
- “The Price
Consideration Model of Brand Choice,” (with Tulin Erdem, Michael
Keane), Journal of Applied
Econometrics, vol.24(3), pp.393-420, 2009 (a special issue on New Econometric Models in Marketing edited by P. Chintagunta, P.H. Franses
and R. Paap). Published version is available here.
- “Challenges to Evidence-Based
Prescribing in Clinical Practice,” (with Muhammad Mamdani,
Brian Golden, Magda Melo,
Ulrich Menzefricke), The Annals of
Pharmacotherapy, vol.42(5), pp.704-707, 2008.
- “Recent
Advances in Structural
Econometric Modeling: Dynamic, Product Positioning, and Entry,”
(with J.-P. Dube, K. Sudhir, G. Crawford, M. Draganska, J. Fox, W. Hartmann, G. Hitsch,
B. Viard, M. Villas-Boas, and N. Vilcassim), Marketing Letters, vol. 16(3), pp.209-224, December, 2005.
- “Understanding Firm, Physician and Consumer Choice Behavior in the Health Care Industry,” (with P. Manchanda, D. Wittink, P. Cleanthous, M.
Ding, X.J. Dong, P. Leeflang, S. Misra, N. Mizik, S.
Narayanan, T. Steenburgh, J.E. Wieringa, M. Wosinska, Y.
Xie), Marketing Letters, vol.
16(3), pp.293-308, December, 2005.
· Working Papers
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Both C and Matlab code are
available upon request.
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Presentation slides can be downloaded from here.
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2009 version
(this is a shortened version with more emphasis on the methodological
contributions)
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An older version can be downloaded from here.
· Work-in-progress
- How Much Do Consumers Know About the Quality of
Products? Evidence from the Diaper Market (with Tulin Erdem and Michael
Keane)
- A Dynamic Model of Consumer
Learning and Forgetting (with Susumu Imai, Masakazu Ishihara and Neelam
Jain)
· Invited Presentations
· Media Coverage
- Credit
cards rewards plan may fuel debt: study, CBC News, July 20, 2009
- Calculating
the true cost of loyalty, Financial Post, July 25, 2009
- Loyalty
Program: Costs and Criticism, BNN interview, September 9, 2009
- No, there is no such thing as
free points, Toronto Star, October 1, 2009
- Management
Briefing: Credit card reward schemes, The Times Online, October 6,
2009
Teaching
MGT 3055 Summer
2009 Econometrics Methods in Marketing