Silke Januszewski Forbes

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Contact Information

Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0508
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
email: sjanuszewski 'at' ucsd.edu
phone: (858) 822-0630

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Statement

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Publications

Contract Form and Technology Adoption in a Network Industry, joint with Mara Lederman (University of Toronto), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (forthcoming)

Does Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry , joint with Mara Lederman, RAND Journal of Economics 41(4),Winter 2010, 765-790. (working paper version)

Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry , joint with Mara Lederman, American Economic Review 99(5), December 2009, 1831-1849. (working paper version)

(A previous version of this paper was circulated under the title "Control Rights, Network Structure and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Regional Airlines")

The Effect of Air Traffic Delays on Airline Prices, International Journal of Industrial Organization 26(5), September 2008, 1218-1232. (working paper version)

The Effect of Service Quality and Expectations on Customer Complaints, Journal of Industrial Economics 56(1), March 2008, 190-213. (working paper version)

The Role of Regional Airlines in the U.S. Airline Industry, joint with Mara Lederman, in: Darin Lee (ed.), Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. II, Elsevier 2007

Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany, joint with Jens Koeke and Joachim Winter, Research in Economics 56(3), September 2002, 299-332.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

Quality Disclosure and Gaming: Do Employee Incentives Matter?, joint with Mara Lederman and Trevor Tombe (University of Toronto)

When Educators are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools, joint with Nora Gordon (Georgetown University)

Switching Costs in Health Insurance (abstract), joint with Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego)

Rent Extraction by Insurance Brokers: Evidence from Brazilian Car Insurance (abstract), joint with Daniel Ferreira Lima (UC San Diego)

Grants

Project Description for NSF grant SES-1124154

Teaching

Econ 100C, Intermediate Microeconomics (Syllabus)
Econ 100CH, Honors Section for Intermediate Microeconomics (Syllabus)
Econ 104, Economics of Network Industries (undergraduate elective) (Syllabus)
Econ 261, Graduate Industrial Organization (Syllabus)

Office Hours

By appointment

Links

UCSD Economics Department