Frontiers in the Economics of Markets and Organizations

Marcella Alsan

Marcella Alsan is Director of the Health Inequality Lab and the Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Alsan received a BA from Harvard University, a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health, a MD from Loyola University, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Alsan trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was on faculty at Stanford. She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. In recognition and support of her work studying the causes and consequences of health inequalities, Alsan was awarded a MacArthur “Genuis” Award in 2021.

Fatih Guvenen

Fatih Guvenen is the Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, the founding Director of the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute (MEBDI), and a founding Co-Director of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID). He is also a Research Adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Fatih received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey and his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting or full-time academic positions at the University of Rochester, NYU Stern School of Business, Yale University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Fatih’s research covers various dimensions of economic inequality and how these interact with the macroeconomy and government policies. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies, among others, and have been covered in the media (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Fortune, among others). His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Retirement Research Consortium, the Russell Sage Foundation, and other organizations.

Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has a B.Math in Pure Mathematics from the Unversity of Waterloo, a MA in economics from the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Harvard Academy fellow from 2008-2010, and has been at Columbia since 2010. He works on political economy and historical labor markets. He has interests in the economic effects of democracy and non-democracy, monopsony in labor markets, the economics of American slavery, guest worker migration, and labor unions and labor organizing. He is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-director of the Columbia Center on Political Economy.

Judith Chevalier

Judith A. Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics and Faculty Director for the Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact at the Yale School of Management. Professor Chevalier’s research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization.  Her research focuses on the impacts of new technologies on firms, individuals, and policy.  She has written extensively on the economics of the retail sector – both in ecommerce and brick and mortar, with a particular interest in consumer product reviews. She has written extensively on career choice, career concerns, incentives, job flexibility and gig work. She has also written a series of papers exploring the overlap between finance and industrial organization. Her COVID-19 work includes an early study of masking, a geospatial study of the movement of nursing home workers across facilities and the spread of the virus, and a study of retail vaccine availability. She is the President of the Industrial Organization Society and former chair of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She is a trustee of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the Rand Journal of Economics. Chevalier was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.

Lise Vesterlund

Lise Vesterlund is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. She serves, and has served, on numerous editorial boards including the American Economic Review, AEJ: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature.  She is the director of the Behavioral Economics Design Initiative (BEDI) and the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL), and co-author of the acclaimed 2022 book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work. Vesterlund works in two distinct research areas: charitable giving and gender differences in the labor market. Her work on charitable giving aims to determine why we give to charity, and on how solicitation strategies influence donations to organizations. Her research on gender sheds light on why men continue to be more successful than women in climbing the corporate ladder. She has demonstrated systematic gender differences in behavior when deciding whether to enter a competition or a negotiation, or when asked to perform a non-promotable task. In uncovering the drivers of these differences her work points to mechanisms that can be put in place to secure that the best qualified candidates are those promoted. Her research has been featured by scores of leading international publications, including New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Economist, Time magazine and Harvard Business Review.