Welcome to Alejandro Zentner’s Home Page!

 

Associate Professor of Managerial Economics

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The University of Texas at Dallas

 

 

Research Interest

 

Applied Microeconomics

Digitization

Intellectual Property

Field Experiments

Public Economics/Political Economy

 

 

Teaching

 

Fall 2020

 

Business Analytics – Managerial Economics 6312 - Applied Econometrics - (Master in Business Analytics, Master, MBA)

 

Current course syllabus and assignments available on https://elearning.utdallas.edu/

 

Spring 2021

 

MECO 7313 - Applied Econometrics (PhD)

 

 

Older Courses

 

Business Economics (MBC - Cohort Full time MBA)

 

Business Economics (Master of Science and MBA)

 

MECO 7313 - Applied Econometrics (PhD)

 

MECO 6312 - Business Forecasting and Time Series Analysis - (Master of Science, MBA, PhD)

 

Carnegie Mellon - Econometrics I (PhD)

 

Carnegie Mellon - Economic Analysis (Master of Science)

 

 

CV (containing published and forthcoming papers)

 

https://profiles.utdallas.edu/azentner

 

Current Working Papers

 

The $100 Million Nudge: Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment (with Justin E. Holz, John List, Marvin Cardoza, and Joaquin Zentner). Becker-Friedman Chicago Institute and NBER working paper 2020.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27666

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_WP_2020113.pdf

 

The Challenges of Using Ranks to Estimate Sales, (with Stan Liebowitz), 2020.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3543827

 

The Impact of Digital Readers on Print Book Sales: Analysis using Genre Exposure Heterogeneity,” (with Rahul Telang and Siddhartha Sharma), 2020.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3579521

 

Online and Offline Retailing: What We Know and Directions for Future Research,” (with Brian Ratchford, Dinesh Gauri, and Gonca Soysal).

 

Pecuniary Motivations to Create,” (with Stan Liebowitz).

 

Measuring E-Commerce Concentration Effects When Product Popularity is Channel-Specific,” (with Gonca Soysal and Brian Ratchford).