Mariagiovanna Baccara
Professor of Economics
Area of Expertise:
Microeconomics/ Industrial Organization
Research Interests:
Innovation and intellectual property rights, organized crime, matching, and social networks.
Selected Publications:
- "Patent Auctions and Bidding Coalitions: Structuring the Sale of Club Goods", RAND Journal of Economics, Issue 52(3), 662-690, with J. Asker, S. Lee
- "Optimal Dynamic Matching", Theoretical Economics, 1221-1278, with S. Lee, L. Yariv, 2020
- "Choosing peers: Homophily and polarization in groups", Journal of Economic Theory, 152-178, with L. Yariv, 2016
- "Homophily in Peer Groups", American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Issue 3, 69-96, with L. Yariv, 2013
- "Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Issue 3, 133-158, with A. Collard-Wexler, A. Fellli, L. Yariv, 2013
- "A Field Study of Matching with Network Externalities", American Economic Review, with A. Imrohoroglu, A. Wilson, L. Yariv, 2012
- "How to Organize Crime", Review of Economic Studies, Issue 4, 1039-1067, with H. Bar-Isaac, 2008
Academic/Professional Activities:
- Editorial Review Board Member, American Economic Journal:Microeconomics
- Member, CEPR, Organizational Economics Programme
- Editor, Associate Editor, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
- Editor, Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics
- Editor, Associate Editor, Review of Economics Design
- Editor, Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization
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Mariagiovanna Baccara is a Professor of Economics in the Olin School of Business, where she was Economics Area Chair from 2015 to 2021. She is a research fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and she serves on the Editorial Board of American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and as Associate Editor for Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and International Journal of Industrial Organization. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and other leading academic journals. Currently, Professor Baccara’s main research interests involve matching, the markets for information, organization theory, and social networks. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2003. She was an Assistant Professor at NYU Stern before joining Olin in 2010, and she has held visiting positions at USC Marshall, Science Po, and Bocconi University.
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Email: mbaccara@wustl.edu
PhD 2003, Princeton University
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