Research
Papers
- “Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production” Journal of Political Economy, 108:5, pp. 874-904, October 2000.
- “Contractual Allocation of Decision Rights and Incentives: The Case of Automobile Distribution” (with Benito Arruñada and Luis Vázquez) Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 17, pp. 257-284, April 2001.
- “The Effects of Business-to-Business E-commerce on Transactions Costs” (with Steven Kaplan) Journal of Industrial Economics, XLIX:4, pp.463-487, 2001.
- “Business-to-Business E-commerce: Value Creation, Value Capture and Valuation” (with Steven Kaplan) in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol. 11, Elsevier, 2002.
- “Firms’ Boundaries and the Division of Labor: Empirical Strategies” (with Thomas N. Hubbard) Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings) 1:2, pp. 495-502, April-May 2003.
- “Inequality and the Organization of Knowledge” (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 94:2, pp.197-202, May 2004.
- “Referrals” (with Tano Santos) American Economic Review, 94: 3, pp.499-525, June 2004.
- “Completing Contracts Ex Post: How Car Manufacturers Manage Car Dealers” (with Benito Arruñada and Luis Vázquez) Review of Law and Economics, 1:1, pp. 149-173, April 2005.
- “Favoritism under Social Pressure’’ (with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta and Canice Prendergast) Review of Economics and Statistics, 87:2, pp. 208-216, May 2005.
- “Hierarchical Sorting and Learning Costs” (with Thomas N. Hubbard) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 58:2, pp. 349-369, August 2005.
- “Sabotage in tournaments: Making the beautiful game a bit less beautiful”. (with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta) August 2005.
- “Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective” (with Richard Posner) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19:4, pp. 151-179, Fall 2005.
- “Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy” (with Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121: 1, pp. 31-77, February 2006.
- “The Knowledge Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Hierarchies” (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings) April-May 2006.
- “Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy” (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121: 4, pp. 1383-1435, November 2006.
- “Managerial Leverage is Limited by the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization and the Utilization of Lawyers’ Human Capital”, (with Thomas N. Hubbard) Journal of Law and Economics, 50:1, pp. 1-45. February 2007.
- “Language and the Theory of the Firm” (with Jacques Crémer and Andrea Prat) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122:1, pp. 373-408. February 2007.
- “Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs.” (with Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, In Helpman, E., Marin D., Verdier T. (2008) (Eds) The Organization of Firms in the Global Economy, Harvard University Press.
- “Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms” (with Thomas N. Hubbard) Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. 25:2, pp. 339-371. October 2009.
- “Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments” (with Paul Heaton) Journal of Labor Economics, 18:1, pp. 167-201. January 2010.
- “Matching Problems with Expertise in Firms and Markets” (with William Fuchs) Journal of the European Economic Association. Vol. 8, No. 2-3: 354–364. April/May 2010.
- “Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Using Occupational Licensing as a Shifter of Offshoring Costs” (with Chiara Criscuolo) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. Volume100, Number 2, pp. 439-443(5) May 2010.
- “Did Good Cajas Extend Bad Loans?: Governance, Human Capital and Loan Portfolios” with Vicente Cuñat, The Crisis of the Spanish Economy, Edited by S. Bentolila, M. Boldrin, J. Díaz Jiménez, J.J Dolado (2010).
- “Towards a new Architecture for Financial Stability: Seven Principles” (with Rosa Lastra) Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 13, Number 3, 597-623. September 2010.
- “Organizing for Synergies” (with Wouter Dessein and Robert Gertner), American Economic Journal-Micro, 2(4): 77–114. November 2010.
- “Hierarchies and the division of labor” (with Tim Van Zandt), Princeton University Press 2012.
- “Knowledge, Communication and Organizational Capabilities” (with Yanhui Wu) Organization Science, 23:1382-1397. September/October 2012.
- “Organizing Growth” (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) Journal of Economic Theory, Vol 147:2, 623-656, 2012.
- “Learning about the Nature of Production from Equilibrium Assignment Patterns” with Thomas N. Hubbard, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2013).
- “Handbook of organizational economics” (with Rober Gibbons and John Roberts) Princeton University Press, 2013.
- “Organizational Economics with Cognitive Costs”, (with Andrea Prat) Advances in Economic Theory, Econometric Society 10th World Congress, Edited by D. Acemoglu, M.Arellano, E. Dekkel, Cambridge University Press, June 2013.
- “Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Eurozone” with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, and Tano Santos. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 145-66. Summer 2013.
- “The Distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization”, with Nick Bloom, Rafaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Management Science 60 (12): 2859-2885, December 2014.
- “Knowledge-Based Hierarchies: Using Organizations to Understand the Economy”, with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Annual Review of Economics, Vol 7,1-30, 2015.
- “Optimal Contracting and the Organization of Knowledge” (with Willie Fuchs and Luis Rayo, Review of Economic Studies.82 (2), 632-658, Spring 2015.
- “Why organizations fail: Models and cases”, with Luis Rayo, Journal of Economic Literature, 54 (1), 137–192, March 2016.
- “The Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop and ESBies” with Markus K. Brunnermeier, Stijn Van Nieuwerberg, Philip Lane, Marco Pagano, Tano Santos, Ricardo Reis, David Thesmar and Dimitri Vayanos. American Economic Review P&P, 508-512, May 2016.
- “The Returns to Knowledge Hierarchies”, with Tom Hubbard, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol 32(4): 653-684, November 2016.
- “Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France.” (with Claire Lelarge and John van Reenen) American Economic Review106(11): 3439-79, November 2016.
- “Survive Another Day: Using the Composition of Investments to Measure the Impact of Credit Constraints”, with Claudia Steinwender, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (5): 913-924, December 2016.
- “Relational Knowledge Transfers” (with Luis Rayo). American Economic Review 107 (9).2695-2730, September 2017.
- “Earnings inequality and coordination costs: Evidence from US Law firms” (with Thomas Hubbard) Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 34 (2): 196-229, May 2018.
- “The COVID-19 bazooka for jobs in Europe”, Vox.eu CEPR Book “Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes”, pp. 129-139, March 2020.
- “Towards a European Reconstruction Fund”, Vox.eu CEPR, May 2020.
- “Towards a feasible Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”. Paper presenting the European Parliament’s Proposal – 2020/2043 (INI): “Towards a WTO-compatible EU carbon border adjustment mechanism”.
- “Tackling inflation if it reappears” (with Jesús Saa-Requejo and Tano Santos), Vox.eu CEPR, October 2020.
- “Two Proposals to resurrect the Banking Union: the Safe Portfolio Approach and the SRB+”, CEPR Policy Insight N. 108, November 2020.
- “Why do we need a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism? Towards the development of a Climate Club”, Luis Garicano and María Fayos, October 2021, in No Brainers and Low-Hanging Fruit in National Climate Policy, Francesco Caselli, Alexander Ludwig, Rick van der Ploeg, CEPR, October 08, 2021.