MARIAGIOVANNA BACCARA Curriculum Vitae

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1 4/15 MARIAGIOVANNA BACCARA Curriculum Vitae Olin School of Business Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1133, One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO Phone: (314) Main Fields of Interest Applied Microeconomic Theory Industrial Organization Main Academic Positions Washington University in St. Louis: Olin School of Business, Associate Professor with tenure, and School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics, Affiliated Faculty Washington University in St. Louis: Olin School of Business, Assistant Professor New York University: Stern School of Business, Assistant Professor (courtesy appointment with the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University) Education Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, 2003 University of Trieste (Italy), B.A. in Economics, Summa cum Laude Other Positions and Affiliations Review of Economic Design, Associate Editor Center of Political Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, Fellow Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Research Fellow Jun 2011 Department of Economics, Sciences-Po (Paris), Short-term Visitor University of Southern California: Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, Visiting Assistant Professor Nov 2004 Bocconi University and IGIER, Short-term Visiting Professor

2 Fellowships, Grants, and Awards 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 # ($61,979), with Ronny Razin, Goldfeld Summer Research Award, Princeton University, 1999 Princeton University Fellowship, Italian National Research Council Fellowship, Ente Luigi Einaudi (Rome, Italy) Fellowship, Mortara Fellowship (awarded by the Bank of Italy), Institute for Insurance Studies Fellowship, Published Papers Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race, with Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli and Leaat Yariv, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(3), , 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), , August 2012 Subsidies, Entry, and the Distribution of R&D Investment, joint with John Asker, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28(3), , May 2010 How to Organize Crime, joint with Heski Bar-Isaac, Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), , 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), , December 2007 Outsourcing, Information Leakage and Consulting Firms, RAND Journal of Economics, 38(1), , 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

3 Working Papers Optimal Dynamic Matching, with SangMok Lee and Leeat Yariv, August 2015 Choosing Peers: Homophily and Polarization in Groups, with Leeat Yariv, September 2015, resubmitted (third round), Journal of Economic Theory Foreign Adoption in the U.S., with Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli and Leaat Yariv, December 2012 Innovation and Corporate Conservatism, joint with Ronny Razin, September 2004, Revised December 2011, submitted 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) Work in progress Child Adoption Institutions, with Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli and Leeat Yariv Vertical Relationships in Durable Goods Markets, with John Asker Teaching Experience MBA Level Market Competition and Value Appropriation, Elective, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis (evaluation average: 9.6/10, median: 10/10) Competitive Industry Analysis, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis 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 Firms and Markets, MBA Core, Stern School of Business, New York University, (latest evaluation average: 6.45/7.0, median: 7/7) Managerial Economics, MBA Core, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (evaluation average: 4.25/5.0) Undergraduate Level Game Theory for Business, Olin School of Business, Washington University (latest evaluation averages: 9.06/10 and 9.16/10, median 9/10) Microeconomics, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis (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 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

4 PhD Level Industrial Organization, Washington University in St. Louis Industrial Organization, New York University PhD Workshop New Research in Economic Theory with Heski Bar-Isaac, Debraj Ray and Ennio Stacchetti Fall 2004 Game Theory, Bocconi University Graduate Advising Ramesh Sankaranarayanan (NYU, PhD 2004, job market placement: University of Connecticut) Hong Luo (NYU, PhD 2011, job market placement: Harvard Business School) Nicholas Papageorge (WUSTL, PhD 2012, job market placement: Johns Hopkins University) Juan Block (WUSTL, 2014 PhD, job market placement: post-doc, University of Cambridge) Sandip Agarwal (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Feng Dong (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Ryan Cooper (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Brady Vaughan (WUSTL, PhD Candidate) Other Professional Activities Aug Economics Area co-chair, Olin School of Business, WUSTL 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) Bring Your Own Idea, Gender and Leadership Across Disciplines, WUSTL, Group Member Simon Hall Renovation Committee, Olin School of Business, WUSTL MBA Program Committee, Olin School of Business, WUSTL PhD Economics Area Coordinator, Olin School of Business, WUSTL 2013 Dean s Scholarship Selection Committee, Olin School of Business, WUSTL Diversity Advisory Committee, Office of the Provost, WUSTL 2012 AACSB Review Faculty Committee, Olin School of Business, WUSTL Oct 2012 Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meeting, Scientific Program Committee 2011, 2012 Distinguished Women in Economics and Strategy Day, WUSTL, Organizer Junior and Senior Recruiting, Olin School of Business, WUSTL Theory Seminar Series, WUSTL, Co-organizer 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)

5 May 2010 Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory Conference on Future Directions, Program Committee 2007 South-West Economic Theory Conference, Scientific Program Committee Junior and Senior Recruiting, NYU Stern IO Day and IO seminar series, 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, 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 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, Theoretical Economics Grant Reviewer 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, National Science Foundation, WUSTL Diversity & Inclusion Grant Program, WUSTL University Research Strategic Alliance Grant Program Presentations (Seminars and Conferences) 2010-present: 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), Washington University in St. Louis ( 4), 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, 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

6 (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, 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, 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 Personal Information English, Italian (native language) Born in Trieste (Italy), Italian and US Citizen