10/21 MARIAGIOVANNA BACCARA Curriculum Vitae ______Olin School of Business Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1133, One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 Phone: (314) 935-3639 Email: [email protected] Main Academic Appointments
2021- Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business, Full Professor 2013-2021 Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business, Associate Professor (with tenure) 2010-2012 Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business, Assistant Professor 2002-2010 New York University, Stern School of Business, Assistant Professor
Other Academic Appointments
2010- Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics (Affiliated Faculty) 2002-2010 New York University, School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics (Affiliated Faculty) Jun 2011 Department of Economics, Sciences-Po (Paris), Short-term Visitor 2006-2007 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor Nov 2004 Bocconi University and IGIER, Short-term Visiting Professor 2000-2001 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Visiting Lecturer
Education
Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, 2003 University of Trieste (Italy), B.A. in Economics, Summa cum Laude
Professional Associations
2020- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Member of the Editorial Board 2020- Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Co-editor 2020- Theoretical Economics, Associate Editor 2021- International Journal of Industrial Organization, Associate Editor 2020- CEPR, Organizational Economics Programme, Research Fellow 2012-2020 Review of Economic Design, Associate Editor 2010-2017 Center of Political Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, Fellow
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Weidenbaum Center Impact Grant, with SangMok Lee and Brian Rogers, WUSTL, 2021 WUSTL Provost Office Grant for “New Directions in Microeconomics,” 2013 Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2009 EEA Young Economist Award, 2005 NSF grant # 0317634, with Ronny Razin, 2003-2004 Goldfeld Summer Research Award, Princeton University, 1999 Princeton University Fellowship, 1995-1999 Italian National Research Council Fellowship, 1998-1999 Ente Luigi Einaudi (Rome, Italy) Fellowship, 1997-1998 Mortara Fellowship (awarded by the Bank of Italy), 1996-1997 “Institute for Insurance Studies’’ Fellowship, 1994-1995
Published Papers
“Patent Auctions and Bidding Coalitions: Structuring the Sale of Club Goods,” with John Asker and SangMok Lee, RAND Journal of Economics, 52(3), 662-690, Fall 2021 “Optimal Dynamic Matching,” with SangMok Lee and Leeat Yariv, Theoretical Economics, 15, 1221-1278, July 2020 “Choosing Peers: Homophily and Polarization in Groups,” with Leeat Yariv, Journal of Economic Theory, 165, 152-178, September 2016 “Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race,” with Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli and Leaat Yariv, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(3), 133-58, July 2013 (previously circulated as “Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption”) “Homophily in Peer Groups” with Leeat Yariv, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5(3), 69-96, August 2013 (previously circulated as “Similarity and Polarization in Groups”) “A Field Study of Matching with Network Externalities”, with Ayse Imrohoroglu, Alistair Wilson and Leaat Yariv, American Economic Review, lead article, 102(5), 1773-1804, August 2012 “Subsidies, Entry, and the Distribution of R&D Investment”, joint with John Asker, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28(3), 254-270, May 2010 “How to Organize Crime,” joint with Heski Bar-Isaac, Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), 1039- 1067, October 2008, awarded the 2005 EEA Young Economist Award “Bargaining on New Ideas: Rent Distribution and Stability of Innovative Firms,” with Ronny Razin, Journal of European Economic Association, lead article, 5(6), 1095-1129, December 2007 “Outsourcing, Information Leakage and Consulting Firms”, RAND Journal of Economics, 38(1), 269-289, Spring 2007 “Interrogation Methods and Terror Networks,” joint with Heski Bar-Isaac, in "Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism," edited by N. Memon, J. D. Farley, D. L Hicks, and T. Rosenorn, Springer Ed., February 2008 “Effective vs. Efficient Securities in Arbitrage-Free Markets with Bid-Ask Spreads: A Linear Programming Characterization,” joint with Anna Battauz and Fulvio Ortu, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30(1), 55-79, January 2006
Book Chapters
“Dynamic Matching,” with Leeat Yariv, in “Online and Matching-Based Market Design,” edited by Federico Echenique, Nicole Immorlica, and Vijay V. Vazirani, October 2020, forthcoming
Completed Papers
“Task Allocation and On-the-job Training,” with SangMok Lee and Leeat Yariv, September 2020, Revised September 2021, CEPR Discussion Paper 15356 “Access to Clients and Professional Careers: Theory and Evidence from Law Firms,” with Heski Bar-Isaac, Bernardo Silveira, and Natasha Watkins, first draft in preparation “Innovation and Corporate Conservatism,’’ joint with Ronny Razin, Revised December 2011, CEPR Discussion Paper 12986 “From Thought to Practice: Appropriation and Endogenous Market Structure with Imperfect Intellectual Property Rights,” joint with Ronny Razin, First Draft: Nov 2001, earlier version of “Bargaining on New Ideas: Rent Distribution and Stability of Innovative Firms” (see above)
Teaching Experience MBA and EMBA Level
2020 Applied Problem Solving for Organizations, Center for Experiential Learning, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis 2016- Managerial Economics, Executive MBA (Kansas City and Shanghai Programs), Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 9/10, median: 9/10 2015- Game Theory for Business, Elective, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 9.55/10, median: 10/10 Spring 2021 Game Theory for Business, Redesigned Online Format, Elective, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 9.55/10, median: 10/10 2014-2016 Competitive Industry Analysis, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 8.6/10, median: 9/10 Spring 2011 Managerial Economics, Core, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2009 Game Theory and Business Strategy, Elective, Stern School of Business, New York University 2002-2010 Firms and Markets, MBA Core, Stern School of Business, New York University, latest evaluation average: 6.45/7.0, median: 7/7 2006-2007 Managerial Economics, MBA Core, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, evaluation average: 4.25/5.0, median 5/5 Undergraduate Level
2010- Game Theory for Business, Olin School of Business, Washington University, latest evaluation average: 9.23/10, median 10/10 2021 Game Theory for Business, Redesigned Online Format, Olin School of Business, Washington University, latest evaluation average: 9.23/10, median 10/10 2014-2016 Competitive Industry Analysis, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 8.97/10, median: 9/10 2011- Microeconomics, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, latest evaluation average: 8.69/10, median 9/10 Fall 2011 Matching and Social Networks, Honor course, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, evaluation average: 10/10, median 10/10 2006-2007 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
PhD Level
2011-2015 Industrial Organization, Washington University in St. Louis 2004-2008 Industrial Organization, New York University 2002-2006 PhD Workshop “New Research in Economic Theory” with Heski Bar-Isaac, Debraj Ray and Ennio Stacchetti Fall 2004 Game Theory, Bocconi University
PhD Advising (both informal and as a Committee member)
Ramesh Sankaranarayanan (NYU, 2004, Committee member, University of Connecticut) Hong Luo (NYU, 2011, Harvard Business School) Nicholas Papageorge (WUSTL, PhD 2012, Johns Hopkins University) Juan Block (WUSTL, 2014, Committee member, University of Cambridge) Jiemai Wu (WUSTL, 2016, Committee member, University of Sydney) Ryan Cooper (WUSTL, 2015, University of Maryland) Sandip Agarwal (WUSTL, 2013, Committee member) Feng Dong (WUSTL, 2014, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Andres Hincapie (WUSTL, 2017, University of North Carolina) Chuan Chen (WUSTL, 2019, Committee member, University of Wisconsin-Madison Post-Doc) Meichen Chen (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Xiannong Zhang (WUSTL, Committee member, PhD Candidate) Tsung-Yu Ho (WUSTL, Committee member, PhD Candidate) Kohei Yamagata (WUSTL, Committee member, PhD Candidate) Laura Hurtado Moreno (WUSTL, Committee member, PhD Candidate) Sumedha Rajbanshi (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Charlie An (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Yves-Paul Auffray (WUSTL, PhD Candidate)
Other Professional Activities At WUSTL
Fall 2021 Search for the Olin Associate Dean of IDEA, Committee Member 2021- University Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee 2017-2021 Economics Area Chair, Olin School of Business 2015-2017 Economics Area co-Chair, Olin School of Business 2016- Omnibus Committee, Olin Business School 2020- Online MBA Program Design Committee, Olin Business School 2019-2020 BSBA Committee, Olin School of Business 2019-2020 Committee on the Role and Management of Teaching Assistants, Olin School of Business, Committee Chair 2019- Olin Teaching Excellence Program, Olin School of Business, Faculty Coordinator 2018- Olin Cross-Field Faculty Lunches, Olin School of Business, Co-organizer 2018- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Director's Advisory Committee 2014- Leadership Breakfasts Group 2015- Art on Campus Committee 2011- Women at Olin Program, Co-organizer 2017-2018 Olin Strategic Plan Technology Committee Spring 2017 Women’s Faculty Leadership Institute, Participant 2016-2018 Women Faculty Association, Board Member 2014-2017 External Member of Economics A&S Recruiting Committee 2016-2017 External Member of Political Science A&S Recruiting Committee 2013-2015 Simon Hall Renovation Committee, Olin School of Business 2013-2014 MBA Program Committee, Olin School of Business 2013-2016 PhD Economics Area Coordinator, Olin School of Business 2013 Dean’s Scholarship Selection Committee, Olin School of Business 2012-2013 Diversity Advisory Committee, Office of the Provost 2012 AACSB Review Faculty Committee, Olin School of Business 2011, 2012 Distinguished Women in Economics and Strategy Day, Organizer 2010-2011 A&S Theory Seminar Series, Co-organizer
Outside WUSTL
2020- Schwartz Bootcamp, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Co-organizer (with Nicola Persico and Marzena Rostek) 2016-2017 NSF Panelist, Arlington, VA Nov 2015 New Directions in Applied Microeconomics: Theory and Evidence, Fourth Edition, Co-organizer (with Heski Bar-Isaac and Leeat Yariv) Nov 2013 New Directions in Applied Microeconomics: Theory and Evidence, Third Edition, Co-organizer (with Limor Golan and Leeat Yariv) Oct 2012 Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meeting, Scientific Program Committee Jul 2011 New Directions in Applied Microeconomics: Theory and Evidence, Second Edition, Co-organizer (with Guillaume Frechette and Leeat Yariv) Jul 2010 New Directions in Applied Microeconomics: Theory and Evidence, First Edition Co-organizer (with Nicola Persico and Leeat Yariv) May 2010 Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory Conference on Future Directions, Program Committee 2007 South-West Economic Theory Conference, Scientific Program Committee 2003-2006 IO Day, NYU Stern, Co-organizer
Refereeing Activity
American Journal of Political Science, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economica, The Economic Journal, Economics and Politics, Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, International Economic Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Game Theory, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economics Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Management Sciences, Mathematical Social Sciences, Italian Ministry for Education, Quarterly Journal of Economics, The RAND Journal of Economics, Research Policy, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization, Theoretical Economics
Grant Reviewer
National Science Foundation (Panelist and Reviewer), SSHRC Insight Grant, Israel Science Foundation, Italian Department of Education Grant Program, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, WUSTL Diversity & Inclusion Grant Program, WUSTL University Research Strategic Alliance Grant Program
Presentations (Seminars and Conferences)
Ohio State University, EARIE 2021, 2021 EEA-ESEM Congress, 2021 Australian Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2021 Canadian Economic Theory Conference, 2021 GSE Organization Economics Workshop, Columbia University, Michigan State University, Virginia Tech, University of Texas at Austin, 13th Annual Northwestern CLBE Conference on Innovation Economics, 2020 Theory and Empirics IO Research Conference (postponed), Kelley School of Business (University of Indiana), 2019 Cornell Applied Theory Conference, Washington University in St. Louis (×5), University of Toronto, 2017 European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee), Paris School of Economics, 2017 Canadian Economic Theory Conference (Vancouver, Canada), 2017 IO Theoretical and Empirical Research Conference (London), 2016 Arizona State University Theory Conference, 2015 Applied Economics Workshop (Petralia Sottana), 2015 IO Theoretical and Empirical Research (Miami), LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome), Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, 2013 Midwest Economic Theory Meetings (University of Michigan), University of Pittsburgh, University of Missouri, Northwestern University, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Bristol University, Università Cattolica, 2011 CRES Foundations of Business Strategy Conference (discussant, Washington University in St. Louis), Brown University, Sciences-Po, University of Oxford, 2010 Mini- Workshop in Economic Theory (Brown University), 2010 Society of Economics Dynamics Meetings (Montreal), 2009 Workshop in Information Networks (NYU), University of Toronto, CUNY, 2009 Applied Economics Workshop (Petralia Sottana), New York University, Vanderbilt University, London School of Economics (×2), University of Essex, University of Cambridge, INSEAD, London Business School, University California San Diego, University of Southern California (×2), 2009 SCIP Financial Law & Innovation conference (USC Law), Columbia University, Queen’s University, University of Trieste (×2), 2008 Business Law and Innovation Conference (Columbia University), 2008 European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee), 2008 Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings (Boston), 2008 Third World Conference of the Game Theory Society, University of California Los Angeles, Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California, ×2), 2007 Fourth Conference on Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism, 2007 Second UTCC Annual International Conference on Frontier of Economic Research, 2007 Mini-Conference on Social Network (Caltech), University of Pennsylvania, University of Venice , 2006 Conflict and Cooperation (Northwestern University), 2006 European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee), 2006 NBER on Economics of National Security (invited participant), 2006 CRES Foundations of Business Strategy Conference (Washington University), Pennsylvania State University, Bocconi University and IGIER, 2005 CRES Foundations of Business Strategy Conference (discussant, Washington University), 2005 European Economic Association Meetings, 2005 International Conference of Industrial Organization (discussant), University of Southampton (United Kingdom), University of Bologna , 2004 IO Day (New York University), 2004 European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee), 2004 Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings (Florence), Duke University, New York University, 2003 IO Day (New York University), 2003 Conference of the Society for Advancement in Economic Theory, 2003 Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings (Paris), 2003 Clarence Tow Conference in Industrial Organization (University of Iowa), 2003 Econometric Society Winter meeting, University of Iowa, Universidade NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal), University of Rochester, New York University, Stanford GSB, Columbia Business School, University of Toronto, University of Southern California, Washington University, Carnegie Mellon University, Bocconi University and IGIER, Marshall School of Business (USC), 2002 European Economics Association Conference, 2002 Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings (New York), 2002 Conference of the Society for Advancement in Economic Theory, Conference of the Society of Real Analysis and Applications
Languages English, Italian (native language)
Personal Information Born in Trieste (Italy), Italian and U.S. Citizen