Economics Faculty Directory

Michael Grubb

Associate Professor

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Michael Grubb

Ph.D.

Contact

Maloney Hall 390

Telephone: 617-552-1569

Email: michael.grubb@bc.edu

ORCID 0000-0001-9885-2225

Education

  • B.S., University of Pennsylvania
  • M.Phil., University of Oxford
  • Ph.D., Stanford University

Courses

ECON3356 Industrial Organization

ECON8854 Industrial Organizaton II

Expertise

  • Behavioral Industrial Organization
  • Industrial Organization
  • Applied Microeconomic Theory

external resources

Access Working Papers and Published Works via RePEc

Google Scholar

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

Economics

Selected Publications

"Consumer Inattention and Bill Shock Regulation", 2015. Review of Economic Studies, 82:1, 219-257

"Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock", with Matthew Osborne, 2015. American Economic Review, 105:1, 234-271

"Dynamic Nonlinear Pricing: Biased Expectations, Inattention, and Bill Shock", 2012. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30:3, 287-290

"Developing a Reputation for Reticence", 2011. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 20:1, 225-268

"Selling to Overconfident Consumers", 2009. American Economic Review, 99:5, 1770-1807. Winner of The Claire and Ralph Landau Prize, 2007

Downloadable Boston College Working Papers

Working Paper 1073. Michael Grubb (Boston College), Darragh Kelly (Google), Jeroen Niebohr (London School of Economics), Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto), Jonathan Shaw (UK Financial Conduct Authority), "Sending out an SMS: Automatic Enrollment Experiments for Overdraft Alerts", (05/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 879. Michael D. Grubb, "Behavioral Consumers in Industrial Organization" (05/2015; PDF)

Working Paper 878. Michael D. Grubb, "Failing to Choose the Best Price: Theory, Evidence, and Policy" (05/2015; PDF)

Working Paper 877. Michael D. Grubb, "Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace" (03/2015; PDF)

Working Paper 829. Michael D. Grubb and Matthew Osborne (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis), "Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock" (2015; PDF; American Economic Review. 105:1, 234-271)

Working Paper 828. Michael D. Grubb, "Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation" (2015; PDF;  Review of Economic Studies. 82:1, 219-257)

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