Roy-ADRES Seminar with Andrea Prat (Columbia)

Andrea Prat is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School (CBS) and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia in 2012, he held faculty positions at Tilburg University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also the Chair of the the organising committee of the European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET)  Among his editorial duties, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

His research spans organisational economics and political economy. In organisational economics, his current work uses theoretical modeling, field experiments, and data analysis to study issues including organisational design, corporate leadership, employee motivation, and optimal disclosure. In political economy, his research seeks to define and measure how economic interests -- such as the media industry, large firms, and wealthy individuals -- influence the democratic process. 

He is the author of numerous articles in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Andrea Prat's website

He will present a paper at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:

TBA

The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Hector CHADE (ASU) on May 18th.