Monica E. Hartmann

Department of Economics
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, MN 55105

• Office: OEC 402
• Office Hours: M 12-1 p.m., TH 12-1:30, and by appointment
• Phone: (651) 962-5681
• Fax: (651) 962-5682
• Email:mehartmann@stthomas.edu

Course Information:   
        Industrial Organization,  Law and Economics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics

Fields of Research:    Industrial Organization with Special Interest in Public Policy, Empirical Models of Product Differentiation, Product Quality

Vita
 

Current Research:

• Abstract of Research Issues: An Examination of Safety Provision and Tax Policy in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry

• Airline Safety: A Study of Consumer Learning
  

• Preferences for Safety Provision Under Asymmetric Information

• Are LemonsHot Potatoes?  (with Maxim Engers and Steven Stern)

• Automobile Maintenance Costs, Used Cars, and Adverse Selection (with Maxim Engers and Steven Stern)

• Mileage Drives Used Car Prices (with Maxim Engers and Steven Stern)  Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming
  

• Access to Airport Facilities: Its Impact on Market Competition
  

•  An International Exercise to Increase Awareness of How Market, Political, and Cultural Forces Affect Economic Activity (with Kathy Combs and Joe Kreitzer)
  

• Vertical Integration of Successive Monopolists: A Classroom Experiment (with Narine Badasyan, Jacob K. Goeree, Charles Holt, John Morgan, Tanya Rosenblat, Maros Servatka, and Dirk Yandell)
• Link to play a web based version of the experiment  (Click on Vertical Monopoly Experiment.)
• Register to use VEcon Lab to run web based experiments.
  

Links to Economic Web Sites:

• UVA's Economics Department
• Resources for Economists
• Play the Prisoner's Dilemma Game
• Law and Economics
• Antitrust Policy
• Antitrust Law Sources on the World Wide Web

• The Air Transport Association
• The FAA
• The NTSB
• The Office of Airline Information

Industry Data:

• Transportation Data
• NADA (Automotive)
  
• Airports
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (Legal)
  
• GeoStat Center: Statistical Indexes (University of Virginia)
  

• Pittsburgh Sports
  
• Pittsburgh Pirates
• Pittsburgh Penguins                      
  
• Pittsburgh Steelers
  
• News coverage by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Minnesotan
• Minnesota Wild
• European Coverage of Sports
• Eurosport
• BBC
  
• Coverage of cycling
  
• Velo News
• Cycling News
  
• Miscellaneous
  
• Tennis News
• Art Work
• WebMuseum
• Musee de Orsay
• Auguste Renoir