Andrew Ching

Andrew Ching, PhD (University of Minnesota), is a full professor in the Carey Business School at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is also jointly appointed at the Department of Economics, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He is the co-founder and Research Director of Digital Business Development Initiative (DBDI), a core faculty at Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI), and a faculty associate at Canadian Centre of Health Economics (CCHE).  Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, he had faculty appointments at University of Toronto and Ohio State University.  He also held visiting professor appointments at UCLA, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, National University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and HKUST, and visiting scholar appointments at Harvard University, Peking University, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

He is currently serving as a member of editorial boards for Journal of Marketing Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Review of Marketing Science, and International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, and a topic editor for Journal of Risk and Financial Management.  He is also serving on the Business Studies Panel of Hong Kong Research Grant Council.  Previously, he served as an Associate Editor for Management Science from 2014-2022, and a member of editorial board of Marketing Science from 2014-2021.

His research focuses on developing new empirical structural models and estimation methods to understand the forward-looking, strategic, learning, state dependence, and bounded rational behavior of consumers & firms under complex environments (incl. rational inattention, exploration-exploitation problems, etc.).  He has applied these techniques to study the demand for prescription drugs, nursing homes, new technology adoption decisions, choice of payment methods, information spillover, late-mover advantages, firm's adaptation of concept drifts, video games demand, consumer stockpiling, online support groups, and integrated marketing communication.  

He has received Young Economist Award from European Economic Association, Finalist of John Little Award, Honorable Mention of Dick Wittink Prize Award, and several major grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  He has also received the honor of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Peking University HSBC Business School.  His PhD students have received MSI Clayton Dissertation Proposal Award, and ISMS Dissertation Proposal Award.  His research articles are published in Econometrica, Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Choice Modelling, and Journal of Medical Internet Research.