Chad Syverson Associate Professor

 

Curriculum Vitae Working Papers; Comments Welcome Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence (with Ali Hortaçsu).  New draft coming soon. IT, Corporate Payouts, and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation (with Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries (with Onsel Emre and Ali Hortaçsu)  New draft any day now. New papers with drafts (hopefully) not far away: “What Determines Productivity at the Micro Level?” “The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand.” (with Lucia Foster and John Haltiwanger.) “The Interaction of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Firms’ Expansions and Contractions” (with Michael Greenstone and John A. List) Publications How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines (with Austan Goolsbee)  Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming. "Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?" (with Lucia Foster and John Haltiwanger)    American Economic Review, March 2008 "Market Distortions When Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions," (with Steve Levitt)   Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. "Markets: Ready-Mixed Concrete," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2008 "Antitrust Implications of Home Seller Outcomes when using Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents" (with Steve Levitt) Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2008, Forthcoming "Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogeneous Producers: An Empirical Test," Journal of Industrial Economics, June 2007 "Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices," (with Ali Hortaçsu) Journal of Political Economy, April 2007 "Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example," Journal of Political Economy, December 2004 "Product Differentiation, Search Costs, and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds," (with Ali Hortaçsu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2004 "Product Substitutability and Productivity Dispersion," Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2004 Teaching Graduate IO Sequence: Winter 2008 Reading List Undergrad IO: The course has a website on Chalk Personal

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