VAIVA PETRIKAIT˙E

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VAIVA PETRIKAITE
Instituto de An´
alisis Econ´
omico (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
[email protected]
www.petrikaite.eu
EDUCATION
2007 Sept.– 2012 May
PhD in Economics, University of Groningen (NL)
Thesis: The effects of costly consumer search on mergers and cartels
2004 Sept.– 2006 Jul.
MSc. in Economics, Vilnius University (LT)
Thesis: Role of the Buyer Power in the Analysis of Structural Market Changes
(Lithuanian Academy of Sciences award for the best student paper in the section
of humanities and social sciences)
2000 Sept. – 2004 Jul.
Bachelor in Economics, cum laude Vilnius University (LT)
(with the Minor in Mathematical Economics)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014 Oct. - current
2012 Sept. –2014 Sept.
2004 Jul. – 2007 Aug.
Postdoctoral researcher, IAE-CSIC (ES)
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Groningen (NL)
State Tax Inspectorate under Ministry of Finance of the Republic of
Lithuania (LT)
PUBLICATIONS
J.L. Moraga-Gonz´alez, V. Petrikait˙e (2013) “Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, 391-424
WORKING PAPERS
V. Petrikait˙e “Collusion with Costly Consumer Search”, 2nd revise and resubmit for International
Journal of Industrial Organization
V. Petrikait˙e “Consumer Obfuscation by a Multiproduct Firm” (submitted)
M. Mulder, V. Petrikait˙e , L.J.R. Scholtens “Production Technologies and the Competitive Fringe
Effect in Electricity Markets”, resubmitted to Resource and Energy Economics
J.L. Moraga-Gonz´alez, V. Petrikait˙e “Consumer Search Costs and the Incentives to Merge under
Bertrand Competition”, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No 11-099/1
WORK IN PROGRESS
“On the incentives to have online and offline shops” (with Saara H¨am¨al¨ainen)
“Product Returning Costs”
“Price Advertising and Directed Consumer Search” (with M. Haan and J.L. Moraga-Gonz´alez)
OTHER TRAINING
2010 Jul.
2009 Jul.
2009 Jan.
Summer school: Econometric Methods for Demand Systems in Economics and
Marketing (Queen Mary College, University of London, the UK)
Summer school: Discrete Choice Models - Theory and Applications to
Environment, Landscape, Transportation and Marketing (Bologna University,
Italy)
14th Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, (Chapman
University, the USA)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012 Nov. – Dec.
2012 Sept. – Nov.
2007 – 2011
Microeconomic Analysis (ISM Vilnius, LT)
Microeconomics I (University of Groningen, NL)
Microeconomics III (University of Groningen, NL), teaching assistant
CONFERENCES
RES 2014 Postgraduate Presentation Meeting & Job Market
38th Simposio of Spanish Economic Association
EARIE: 2013, 2012, 2011
International Industrial Organization conference: 2009
LANGUAGES
Lithuanian (mother tongue), English (proficient user), Russian (independent user), Dutch (basic
user), German (passive user)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Statistical and other specialized packages: Mathematica, E-Views, R, MatLab, LATEX, Stata
Updated, 2014 September