Warzynski, Frederic
Personal
Information
Born on
Nationality:
Belgian
Languages:
French (mother tongue), English and Dutch (fluent), Spanish (fair), Danish
(beginner), basic knowledge of Polish and Russian
Current
Position
September
2007 – Associate Professor
Department of Economics,
Center for
Corporate Performance & Glob ID
Aarhus
School of Business,
Hermodsvej 22
DK8230 Aarhus
DENMARK
email: fwa@asb.dk
Phone: + 45 89 48 61 95
Web: http://www.hha.dk/~fwa/frederic.htm
October
2003- : Research fellow, Center for
Corporate Performance
Aarhus
School of Business,
Past
positions
January
1998-June 2002:
Ph.D. student and research assistant of professor Jozef Konings, LICOS Centre
for Transition Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
July
2002- September 2002:
Researcher, DG ECFIN, European Commission
October
2002-September 2003:
Post-doctoral fellow, IDEI,
February 2004
– December 2007:
Professor Visitante (Assistant Professor of Management), Departamento de Economía de
la Empresa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
On leave, Fall 2007
Education
1998-2002: Ph.D. in Economics,
Title of the thesis: The Dynamic Effect of
Competition on Market Power and Innovation
Ph.D. Committee: Jozef Konings (main
supervisor), Patrick Van Cayseele (co-supervisor), Jim Levinsohn (University of
Michigan), Leo Sleuwaegen, Marno Verbeek (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
1996-1997: M.A. in Econometrics (DEA en Analyse,
Etude et Econométrie), Université Libre de Bruxelles
Title of the thesis: On the Speed of
Transition in Russia: An Extension of the Aghion-Blanchard Model With Soft
Budget Constraints, Bad Tax Collection and Inflationary Financing of the Budget
Deficit
1992-1996: B.A. in Economics (licence), Université
Libre de Bruxelles
Title of the dissertation: L'économie russe
trois ans après le plan Gaidar (The Russian economy three years after
transition)
Teaching Experience
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Economics
of Organizations, 2nd year undergraduate in business, Spring 2004
and Spring 2005
Economics
of Organizations, 4th year undergraduate in economics, Spring 2004
Economía de
las Organizaciones, 2nd year undergraduate in business, Spring 2005,
Spring 2007
Economía de
las Organizaciones, 4th year undergraduate in economics, Spring
2006, Spring 2007
Financial
Economics, 3rd year undergraduate in business and economics, Fall
2005
Industrial Organization,
MSc, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Economics
of Strategy, MSc, Fall 2007, Fall 2008
The
Economic Policies of the EU (Part I: Competition Policy), MSc, Spring 2008,
Spring 2009, Spring 2010
Economics
of HR, MSc, Spring 2010
Publications
“Did
Tough Antitrust Policy Lead to Lower Markups in the US Manufacturing Industry?”
Economics Letters, 70 (1), January 2001, pp. 139-144.
“The
Dynamics of Industrial Markups in Two Small Open Economies: Does National
Competition Policy Matter?” (joint with Jozef Konings and Patrick Van
Cayseele) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19 (5),
April 2001 pp. 841-859.
“Managerial
change, competition, and privatization in Ukraine”. Journal of
Comparative Economics, Vol. 31(2), June 2003, pp. 297-314.
“The
Causes and Consequences of Sector-Level Job Flows in Poland”. Economics
of Transition, Vol. 11 (2), June 2003, pp. 357-381.
“The
Effect of Privatization and Competitive Pressure on Firms' Price-Cost Margins:
Micro Evidence from Emerging Economies”. (joint with Jozef Konings and
Patrick Van Cayseele) Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87 (1),
February 2005, pp. 124-134.
“Incentives,
Sorting and Productivity along the Career: Evidence from a Sample of Top
Economists” (joint with Tom Coupé and Valérie Smeets), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 20, April 2006,
pp. 137-167.
“Job
Creation, Job Destruction and Voting Behavior in Poland” (joint with
Valérie Smeets), European Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 20, June 2006, pp. 503-519.
“Does the
Academic Labor Market Initially Allocate New Graduates Efficiently?” (joint
with
“Too
Many Theories, Too Few Facts? What the Data Tell Us About the Link Between Span
of Control, Compensation and Career Dynamics” (joint with Valérie Smeets), Labour Economics (Special Issue), Vol.
15 (4), August 2008, pp. 688-704.
“Globalization, Superstars, and the Importance of Reputation: Theory and Evidence from the Wine Industry” (joint with Mike Gibbs and Mikel Tapia), Journal of Wine Economics (Special Issue), Vol. 4 (1), Spring 2009, pp. 46-61.
Submitted
papers
Markups and Firm-Level Export Status
[Previously circulated as: “A Control Function Approach to Estimate Markups”
and “Olley and Pakes Meet Hall”] (with Jan De Loecker), July 2009. NBER Working
Paper # 15198.
A Joint Estimation of Price
Cost Margins and Sunk Capital: Theory and Evidence from the European
Electricity Industry (joint with Werner Roeger), revise and resubmit, Journal of Productivity Analysis [UNDER REVISION, NEW
DRAFT COMING
SOON].
Working
Papers
Employment Growth and
International Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective (joint with Rikke Ibsen
and Niels Wiestergaard-Nielsen), February 2010 [UNDER REVISION, NEW DRAFT COMING SOON].
Endogenous Markups, Firm
Productivity and International Trade: A Test of the Melitz-Ottaviano Model (with
Flora Bellone, Patrick Musso and Lionel Nesta), February 2010 [UNDER REVISION, NEW
DRAFT COMING SOON].
Wage Structure and Research
Performance of U.S. Economics Departments: Distinguishing Incentives from
Sorting: (joint with Tom Coupé and Valérie Smeets), February 2010 [UNDER REVISION, NEW
DRAFT COMING SOON].
Stars
War in French Gastronomy (joint with Olivier Gergaud and Valérie
Smeets), January 2010.
Vertical Integration, Exclusivity and Game Sales
Performance in the U.S. Video Game Industry (with Ricard Gil), December
2009.
International differences in performance evaluation: causes and
consequences (with Nikolaj Halse and Valérie Smeets), October 2009 Abstract [DRAFT COMING SOON].
Learning
by importing, exporting or both? Structural estimation of productivity with
multi-product firms and the role of international trade (with Valérie Smeets), September 2009 Abstract [DRAFT COMING SOON].
Multi-Product
Firms and Price Behavior in Danish Manufacturing: Evidence from a
Transaction-Level Dataset [Previous title: Understanding Price Behavior in
Danish Manufacturing: Evidence from a Transaction-Level Dataset] (with Valérie Smeets), September 2009
Abstract
[DRAFT COMING
SOON].
Increased
Sorting and Wage Inequality in the
Wages, Career Dynamics and
Organizational Differences between Countries in a Large Multinational (with
Valérie Smeets), June 2008.
Estimating Productivity
Growth and Markups in Danish Manufacturing: Comparing Results Across Methods
and Datasets (with Valérie Smeets), June 2008.
Patterns of Skill Premia:
International Trade, Skill Bias Technical Change and Wage Inequality. Evidence
from Danish Manufacturing (with Rikke Ibsen and Niels Wiestergaard-Nielsen),
November 2007.
The Dynamics of Price and
Performance and the Role of Reputation: An Empirical Study of French and
Spanish Wines (with
Mikel Tapia)
Job Reallocation, Worker Reallocation and Product Market Competition: Sector-Level and Individual Analyses from Danish Manufacturing, 1992-2001
Work in
progress
The Endogeneity of Vertical
Integration in the Video Game Industry (with Ricard Gil).
Changing Career Patterns in
Product switching as a consequence of increased competition
The Internal Biology of the
Firm, Team Rotation and Learning about Managerial Ability (with Valérie Smeets
and Michael Waldman)
Learning, Reallocation and the Pedigree Effect in the
Academic Labor Market (with
Tom Coupé and Valérie Smeets)
An Analysis of Careers and
the Hierarchy of the U.S. Catholic Church (with Marco van Herpen and Valérie
Smeets)
Competition, R&D
Workers' Mobility and Growth: Evidence from Danish High Tech Industries
Other publications
In
French journals
The Dynamics
of Price Cost Margins in UK Manufacturing: 1989-1996 (with Holger Görg), Revue de l’OFCE, Special
Issue, June 2006, pp. 303-318.
Estimation des
taux de marge dans l’industrie manufacturière européenne, Revue de l’OFCE, January 2009, 121-135.
L’effet pro-concurrentiel de l’intégration
européenne: une analyse de l’évolution des taux de marge dans les industries
manufacturières françaises (with Flora Bellone, Patrick Musso and Lionel
Nesta), Revue de l’OFCE, January
2009, 139-163.
In
Danish journals
“Small Open Economy Firms in
International Trade: Evidence from Danish Transactions-Level Data” (with Tor Eriksson and Valérie Smeets), Danish Economic Journal, forthcoming.
In
books
The implementation
of national competition policy law and the dynamics of price cost margins:
Evidence from
In
the news
Equal
opportunities at Novo Nordisk, World
at Work (joint with Nikolaj Halse and
Valérie Smeets)
P1 radio program, January 4, 2008
Politiken, TV2 News, DR, Business.dk,
Urban, EkstraBladet, Sermitsiaq (
Ukeavisen,
DN
(
Børsen, February 22, 2008
Span of control: Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2008 (see in Chinese)
Unpublished
papers
Is
Antitrust Policy Effective in Reducing Market Power?
Competition,
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth: Evidence from
Competition
and Innovation
The Single Market Program and the Dynamics of
Price Cost Margins in Belgian Manufacturing, 1989-1995.
Price
Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from U.K. Firm Level Data
(joint with Holger Görg), LICOS DP # 133, July 2003..
Presentations
Short Term Visits
GREDEG-OFCE, Nice, January
2007; July 2008
PhD Assessment
External examiner, Olivia
Mollen, Trinity College Dublin (2007) [now at European Commission]
Chair of the assessment
committee, Nikolai Kristensen, ASB (2008) [now at SFI]
External examiner, Qi Li,
University College Dublin (2009)
Refereeing Activities
Referee for Journal of
Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Industrial
Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of
Industrial Organization, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Journal of
Comparative Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, European Journal of
Political Economy, World Development, Comparative Economic Studies, Economic
and Social Review
Last updated: January 2010