December 12, 2013
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: 412-268-1829
Fax: 412-268-7357
mferrey@andrew.cmu.edu
POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Economics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA (July 2009 – present).
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA (2002 – 2009).
Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank (since November 2013)
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2012).
Visiting Scholar, Cowles Foundation, Yale University (2012).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2002.
Dissertation: “Estimating the Effects of Private School Vouchers in
Multi-District Economies.”
Committee: Derek Neal (chair), Steven Durlauf, and Philip Haile.
M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1999.
M.A., Economics, Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, 1995.
B.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina, 1994.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Industrial Organization, Urban
Economics.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“Information Asymmetry and Equilibrium Monitoring in Education” (with Pierre
Liang). Journal of Public Economics, vol. 96 no. 1-2: 237-254, February
2012.
“Learning About New Products: An Empirical Study of Physicians’ Behavior”
(with Grigory Kosenok). Economic Inquiry, vol. 49 no. 3: 876-898, July
2011.
“An Empirical Framework for Large-Scale Policy Evaluation, with an Application
to School Finance Reform in Michigan”. American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy, vol. 1 no. 1: 147–80, February 2009.7