Tom Y. Chang

Assistant Professor

Finance and Business Economics Department

Marshall School of Business

University of Southern California

Office

Hoffman Hall 504

Phone: (213) 740-1135

Fax: (213) 740-6650

Email: tychang@usc.edu
Webpage: USC Marshall

Mailing Address

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Publications

Natural Disaster Management: Earthquake Risk and Hospitals' Provision of Essential Services in California
 with Mireille Jacobson in Daniel Kessler, ed., Regulation versus Litigation: Perspectives from Economics and Law, forthcoming Winter 2010.

Working Papers

Judge Specific Difference in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes
 with Antoinette Schoar.

What Do Not-For-Profit Hospitals Maximize? Evidence from California's Seisemic Retrofit Mandate
 with Mireille Jacobson.

Categorical Consideration: Theory, Evidence and Market Implications

Experiments in Choice: An Experimental Evaluation of Discrete-Choice Models of Product Differentiation (in major revision)
 with Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

How Many Pears Would a Pear Packer Pack if a Pear Packer Could Pack Pears at Quasi-Exogenously Varying Piece Rates?
 with Tal Gross.

Research in Progress

What Drives the Disposition Effect? A Cognitive Dissonance Based Explanation
 with David Solomon and Mark Westerfield.

Going to Pot? Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Crime
 with Mireille Jacobson.

Contracting for Services
 with Patrick Warren and Mireille Jacobson.

One Law, One Justice? An Empirical Analysis of the Behavior of U.S. Bankruptcy Judges
 with Antoinette Schoar.

Leapfrogging Technology: Sequential Technology Adoption in the Case of Broadband Internet

Golden Pigs and Fire Horses: Birth Cohorts, Capacity Constraints and Health Outcomes
 with Mireille Jacobson and Srikanth Kadiyala.

Teaching

BUAD 306, Introduction to Finance.

The Trading Game