Faculty Expert Profile

Andrew Ching is a professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He is jointly appointed to the Department of Economics and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

His research focuses on developing new empirical structural models and estimation methods to understand the rational behavior of consumers and firms. He has applied these methods to several industries including prescription drugs, nursing homes, payment methods, retail banking, peer-to-peer lending and video games.

Ching was recently quoted in a Fortune Magazine article examining how the federal government might proceed with breaking up Facebook. Ching is quoted saying that he has not seen any study that has quantified the power of Facebook "because these are things that are very hard to measure."

He has published in Econometrica, Mangement Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, etc. He has received the Young Economist Award from European Economic Association, Honorable Mention of Dick Wittink Prize Award, and several major research grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada.

He is currently serving as an associate editor for Management Science, and is a member of editorial boards for Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research.