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Chad Syverson
George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor, Booth School of Business; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
Chad Syverson's research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. His research has been published in several top journals and has earned multiple National Science Foundation Awards. He also coauthored (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) an intermediate-level text, Microeconomics. "My engineering background definitely spurred my research interest in productivity. I like to visit factories and investigate how things are put together, what can go wrong...
Related Working Papers
- Jun 2, 2023Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy
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- Jun 13, 2022Intangible Marketing Capital
- Nov 8, 2021The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment
- Sep 13, 2021An Industrial Organization Perspective on Productivity
- Apr 12, 2021Productivity Growth and Workers’ Job Transitions: Evidence from Censal Microdata
- Aug 26, 2020COVID-19 Lockdown Policies at the State and Local Level
- Jun 18, 2020Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020
- Jun 10, 2020The COVID Crisis and Productivity Growth
- Jan 21, 2020Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization
- Jul 15, 2019Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks
- Sep 1, 2018Misallocation Measures: The Distortion That Ate the Residual
- Sep 1, 2018The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
- Jul 27, 2018How Wide Is the Firm Border?
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- Feb 16, 2021Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline
- Mar 4, 2020Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization
- Feb 22, 2019Becker Brown Bag: Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox
- May 12, 2017Why Are Some Companies Efficient While Others Are Not?
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