Department of Economics

Stefan Weiergraeber's primary research interests are in Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim in Germany. He also holds an M.Sc. degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim and was a visiting student at Yale University during the academic year 2008/2009. In his most recent research, he develops an empirical framework to disentangle different sources of inertia in industries where consumer decisions are both state-dependent through switching costs and interdependent through network effects.