Ujjwol Paudel

Ujjwol Paudel

Assistant Professor · Agricultural & Applied Economics · Texas Tech University

Interests: industrial organization economics, operations management.

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Research

In progress

Discretion and Information in Matching Markets

with Stanley Lim

Working papers

Under Review

Compensation Design and Labor Dynamics in Platform Logistics

with Stanley Lim

PresentationsINFORMS Annual Meeting 2026

Under Review

Distribution Channel and Vertical Bargaining

with Elliot Rabinovich, Timothy J. Richards, and Lina Wang

PresentationsPOMS College of SCM 2025 · Decision Sciences Institute 2025 · ASU 2026 · Texas Tech University 2026 · University of Minnesota 2026 · POMS Annual Conference 2026 · AAEA 2026

Under Review

Store Format and Return to Labor in Food Retailing

with Elliot Rabinovich and Timothy J. Richards

PresentationsASU 2024 · PhD EVS 2024 · AEA-ASSA 2025 · Cornerstone Research 2025 · POMS Annual Conference 2026

Under Review

Cross-Platform Merger Effects

with Timothy J. Richards

PresentationsINFORMS Marketing Science 2023 · AAEA 2023

Under Review

Minimum Wages and Employment

with Timothy J. Richards

R&R

Cost Shocks and Price Pass-through

Revise & resubmit · Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

PresentationsArizona State University 2023 · AAEA 2026

Publications

2026

Concentration and Wages in Retailing

with Timothy J. Richards and Keenan Marchesi

Review of Industrial Organization, 2026

2025

Farmworker Bargaining in US Agricultural Labor Markets

with Timothy J. Richards

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2025

2026 AEPP Outstanding Article Award

Ujjwol Paudel accepting the 2026 AEPP Outstanding Article Award
2026 AEPP Outstanding Article Award

PresentationsETH Zürich 2024 · AAEA 2024

2025

Minimum Wages and Pass-Through

with Timothy J. Richards

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2025

PresentationsEARIE 2024 · AAEA 2024

2025

Weight Loss and Food Spending

with Justin Bina

Agricultural Economics, 2025

Teaching

Texas Tech University

Fall 2026

Mathematical Economics (PhD)

Arizona State University

Spring 2024

Food Supply Networks (undergrad)

Education

PhD

Business Administration, Arizona State University

Advisor: Timothy J. Richards

MS

Mathematics, ETH Zürich

Advisor: Giovanni Felder

BS

Mathematics, Jacobs University Bremen

Advisor: Alan Huckleberry

From south-eastern Nepal.