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Positions held:
Reader in Economics,
Birkbeck Business School
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Overview
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Supervisions within Birkbeck:
1
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
MARCO DE BENEDETTO
Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor
Awarded:
2018
Teaching
Teaching modules
Econometrics (EMEC026S7) Advanced Econometrics (EMEC035H7)
Publications
Publications
Article
Watt, Toby and Beckert, Walter and Smith, R. and Cornelsen, L.
(2023)
The impact of price promotions on sales of unhealthy food and drink products in British retail stores .
Health Economics
32
(1),
pp. 25-46.
ISSN 1099-1050.
Beckert, Walter and Siciliani, P.
(2022)
Protecting sticky consumers in essential markets .
Review of Industrial Organization
61,
pp. 247-278.
ISSN 0889-938X.
Beckert, Walter
(2021)
Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service .
Health Economics
30
(4),
pp. 820-839.
ISSN 1099-1050.
Watt, T. and Beckert, Walter and Smith, R. and Cornelsen, L.
(2020)
Reducing consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages through banning price promotions: what is the evidence and will it work? .
Public Health Nutrition
23
(12),
pp. 2228-2233.
ISSN 1368-9800.
Beckert, Walter
(2020)
A note on specification testing in some Structural Regression Models .
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
82
(3),
pp. 686-695.
ISSN 0305-9049.
Beckert, Walter
(2018)
Choice in the presence of experts: the role of general practitioners in patients' hospital choice .
Journal of Health Economics
60,
pp. 98-117.
ISSN 0167-6296.
Beckert, Walter
(2018)
An empirical analysis of countervailing power in business-to-business bargaining .
Review of Industrial Organization
52
(3),
pp. 369-402.
ISSN 0889-938X.
Beckert, Walter and Christensen, M. and Collyer, K.
(2012)
Choice of NHS-funded hospital services in England* .
The Economic Journal
122
(560),
pp. 400-417.
ISSN 0013-0133.
Beckert, Walter
(2010)
A micro-econometric approach to geographic market definition in local retail markets: demand side considerations .
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
4,
ISSN 1864-6042.
Beckert, Walter and Mazzarotto, N.
(2010)
Price-concentration analysis in merger cases with differentiated products .
Economics
4,
ISSN 1864-6042.
Beckert, Walter and McFadden, D.L.
(2010)
Maximal uniform convergence rates in parametric estimation problems .
Econometric Theory
26
(2),
pp. 469-500.
ISSN 0266-4666.
Beckert, Walter and Blundell, R.
(2008)
Heterogeneity and the non-parametric analysis of consumer choice: conditions for invertibility .
Review of Economic Studies
75
(4),
pp. 1069-1080.
ISSN 0034-6527.
Beckert, Walter and McFadden, D.L.
(2008)
Maximum uniform convergence rates in parametric estimation problems .
Econometric Theory
26
(2),
pp. 469-500.
ISSN 0266-4666.
Beckert, Walter
(2007)
Specification and identification of stochastic demand models .
Econometric Reviews
26
(6),
pp. 669-683.
ISSN 0747-4938.
Beckert, Walter
(2006)
Competitive externalities in dynamic monopolies with stochastic demand .
B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
6
(1),
ISSN 1935-1704.
Beckert, Walter
(2005)
Estimation of heterogeneous preferences, with an application to demand for internet services .
Review of Economics and Statistics
87
(3),
pp. 495-502.
ISSN 0034-6535.
Conference Item
Beckert, Walter and Siciliani, P.
(2018)
Behaviour-based price discrimination in "Switching Markets'' .
2018 Conference "Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation",
2018,
Crete, Greece
Beckert, Walter and Kelly, E.
(2016)
Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice
and hospital sorting in the English National Health
Service .
2016 International Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM),
2016,
London, UK
Monograph
Beckert, Walter and Siciliani, P.
(2022)
Protecting sticky consumers in essential markets .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Marioni, L. and Rincon-Aznar, A. and Aitken, A. and Kapur, Sandeep and Smith, Ron P. and Beckert, Walter
(2022)
Estimating food and drink demand elasticities .
National Institute of Economics and Social Research.
Beckert, Walter and Smith, H. and Takahashi, Y.
(2020)
Competition in a spatially-differentiated product market with negotiated prices .
CEPR discussion paper 15379
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Beckert, Walter and Kaliski, Daniel
(2019)
Honest inference for discrete outcomes .
The Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Beckert, Walter
(2019)
A note on specification testing in some structural regression models .
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
London, UK: Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice.
Beckert, Walter
(2018)
A note on specification testing in some regression models .
N/A
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Beckert, Walter and Siciliani, P.
(2017)
Spatial models of heterogeneous switching costs .
RAND Journal of Economics
Bank of England.
ISSN 1756-2171.
Beckert, Walter and Kelly, E.
(2017)
Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service .
London, UK: Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Beckert, Walter and Takahashi, Y.
(2015)
Closed form solutions for the generalized extreme value distribution .
London, UK: Birkbeck College, University of London.
Beckert, Walter
(2015)
Choice in the presence of experts .
London, UK: Birkbeck College, University of London.
Beckert, Walter
(2011)
Empirical analysis of countervailing power in business-to-business bargaining .
London, UK: Birkbeck College, University of London.
Beckert, Walter
(2005)
Dynamic monopolies with stochastic demand .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Beckert, Walter and Blundell, R.
(2004)
Invertibility of nonparametric stochastic demand functions .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Beckert, Walter and McFadden, D.
(2004)
Maximal uniform convergence rates in parametric estimation problems .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Beckert, Walter
(2002)
Firms' strategic choices under demand uncertainty .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.
Beckert, Walter
(2001)
Statistical simulation .
London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.