Warzynski, Frederic

Current Position

September 2007 –               Associate Professor

Department of Economics, Center for Corporate Performance & Glob ID

Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University

Hermodsvej 22

DK8230 Aarhus

DENMARK

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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, Aarhus University

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, University of Toulouse (RTN " Product Markets, Financial Markets and the Pace of Innovation in Europe ")

 

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, Catholic University of Leuven.

 

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

 

Aarhus School of Business

 

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 Valérie Smeets and Tom Coupé), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20 (3), Summer 2006, pp. 161-172.

 

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

Increased Sorting and Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (with Tor Eriksson and Mariola Pytlikova), June 2010.

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 [UNDER REVISION, NEW DRAFT COMING SOON].

Estimating Markups and Productivity Growth in EU Manufacturing: The Role of Sunk Capital [Previously circulated as: “A Joint Estimation of Price Cost Margins and Sunk Capital: Theory and Evidence from the European Electricity Industry (joint with Werner Roeger”]. R&R, Journal of Productivity Analysis [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), April 2010.

Employment Growth and International Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective (joint with Rikke Ibsen and Niels Wiestergaard-Nielsen), April 2010.

Wage Structure and Research Performance of U.S. Economics Departments: Distinguishing Incentives from Sorting (joint with Tom Coupé and Valérie Smeets), March 2010.

 

Working Papers

Learning by importing, exporting or both? Structural estimation of productivity with multi-product firms and the role of international trade (with Valérie Smeets), April 2010 Abstract [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].

 

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].

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.

Work in progress

The Endogeneity of Vertical Integration in the Video Game Industry (with Ricard Gil)

The Impact of Product and Process R&D and Pricing on Competition, Productivity, and Surplus (with Amil Petrin)

Pricing Differential between Markets, Firm Heterogeneity and Unobserved Product Quality (with Mark Roberts)

Workforce Skill Composition and Export Dynamics (with Daniel Baumgarten)

 

Product switching as a consequence of increased competition

Changing Career Patterns in Spain (with Florentino Felgueroso)

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)

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

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). Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift/Danish Economic Journal, 147 (2), 2009, 175-194.

In books

 

The implementation of national competition policy law and the dynamics of price cost margins: Evidence from Belgium and the Netherlands, 1993–1999 (with Jozef Konings and Patrick Van Cayseele). In GAFFARD, J-L and SALIES, E. (Eds), Innovation, Economic Growth and the Firm: Theory and Evidence of Industrial Dynamics, Edward Elgar, March 2010.

 

In the news

 

Equal opportunities at Novo Nordisk, World at Work (joint with Nikolaj Halse and Valérie Smeets)

 

P1 radio program, January 4, 2008

 

JP, Politiken, TV2 News, DR, Business.dk, Urban, EkstraBladet, Sermitsiaq (Greenland), January 7, 2008

 

Ukeavisen, DN (Norway), January 9, 2008, Børsen, February 22, 2008

Span of control: Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2008 (see in Chinese)

 

Wine economics: JP Puls, April 11, 2010

 

Unpublished papers

 

Is Antitrust Policy Effective in Reducing Market Power?

 

Competition, Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing

 

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

  • Attended the European Economic Association Summer School in Toulouse in 1999
  • EARIE Conference 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008
  • EUNIP Conference 1999, 2000
  • World Congress of the Econometric Society, Seattle, August 2000
  • ACES/ASSA Panel, New Orleans, January 2001
  • Royal Economic Society, Durham, April 2001
  • Attended the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference in Aarhus, October 2001 (paper presented by my co-author)
  • Belgian Day for Labor Economists, Brussels, June 2001 and Leuven, January 2002
  • 2nd IZA-WDI International Conference on Labor Market in Emerging Economies, San Jose and Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, April 2002
  • Society of Labor Economics (SOLE) conference, Baltimore, May 2002 (poster session)
  • Attended the SITE Summer Workshop segment on Personnel Economics, Stanford University, June 2002 (paper presented by my co-author)
  • North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of California Los Angeles, June 2002
  • International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, April 2003; Chicago, April 2004; Virginia, May 2008; Boston, April 2009; Vancouver, May 2010.
  • Invited for seminar at University College Dublin (January 2002), Trinity College Dublin (November 2001, January 2002 and April 2004), University of Groeningen, Tilburg University, University of Liège, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (April 2003, May 2006), Aarhus School of Business (May 2003, November 2004, September 2005, August 2006, February 2007, October 2007, April 2009), SEM Arhus University – Applied Micro Lunch/Brownbag seminar (March 2008,  September 2008, March 2009), Cornell University (September 2006), GREDEG-OFCE, Nice (January 2007) , FEDEA (January 2009), Goethe University Frankfurt (February 2009)
  • Attended the European Science Days Summer School in Personnel Economics, July 13-18, 2003 in Steyr organized by Ed Lazear
  • Attended the European Science Days Summer School in Organizational Economics, July 11-15, 2004 in Steyr organized by George Baker
  • EEA-ESEM, Madrid, August 19-25, 2004 (paper presented by my co-author)
  • XX Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Granada, September 16-17, 2004
  • CCP X-Mas Seminar, December 13-14, 2004
  • North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia, January 2005
  • V Workshop Internacional sobre Gestión de los Recursos Humanos, Universidad Pablo Olavide, Sevilla, May 2005
  • SOLE-EALE Conference, San Francisco, June 2005
  • International Workshop “Innovation, Competition, and Productivity: Evidence from firm-level datasets”, Sophia-Antipolis (Nice-Côte-d'Azur), 19-20 December 2005
  • Vineyard Data Quantitative Society, Annual Conference, Bordeaux, May 2006
  • Society of Quantitative Gastronomy, 1st Annual Conference, Bordeaux, May 2006
  • CAED Conference, Chicago, September 2006
  • CAFE Conference, Nuremberg, September 2006
  • Workshop on Labor Turnover and Firm Performance, Helsinki, March 2007
  • Society of Quantitative Gastronomy, 2nd Annual Conference, Trier, May 2007
  • SOLE Conference (Poster Session), Chicago, May 2007
  • NBER Summer Institute, Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop (panel presenter), July 2007
  • Competitive Forces Affecting the Wine and Winegrape Industries: An International Conference on World Wine Markets, August 2007, University of California, Davis
  • CCP Seminar, Ebeltoft, November 2007
  • Attended the NBER Conference on the "Economics of High-Skill Labor Markets", December 2007
  • Conference on "Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation", North Carolina State University, March 8-9, 2008
  • Attended the SOLE Conference (Poster Session), New York, May 2008
  • Attended the CAED Conference, Budapest, May 22-24, 2008
  • IZA Workshop on Research in Economics: Rewards, Evaluation and Funding, May 26-27, 2008
  • Fourth Danish International Economics Workshop, June 12-13, 2008
  • Attended the 3rd Nordic Summer Institute in Labour Economics, Ebeltoft,  June 12-14, 2008
  • Workhop on Gender Economics, Granada, June 30, 2008
  • Conference on Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in the Global Economy, Toulouse, July 7-9, 2008
  • Workshop on trade and productivity dynamics, Nice, July 10, 2008
  • EALE Conference, Amsterdam, September 2008
  • LMDG 2008 Conference, Sandbjerg
  • Organization and Performance : Understanding the diversity of firmsTokyo, 2008/11/14&15
  • Workshop on Structural Approaches to Productivity and Industrial Dynamics, Rome, April 16-17, 2009
  • Minnesota Applied Micro Workshop, May 1-2, 2009  (paper presented by my co-author)
  • ASB/IAB Workshop, Nuremberg, May 13-15, 2009
  • NOITS 2009, Copenhagen, May 15-16, 2009
  • 8th IZA/SOLE Meeting, May 28-31, 2009
  • North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, June 4-7, 2009
  • 3rd Annual Conference, American Association of Wine Economics, Reims, June 18-20, 2009
  • EEA-ESEM Conference, Barcelona, 23-27 August, 2009
  • SNB/CEPR Conference on Product Heterogeneity and Quality Heterogeneity in International Trade, Zurich, 28-29 August 2009
  • XXIV Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Vigo, September 24-25, 2009
  • CAED Conference, Tokyo, October 2-4, 2009
  • Workshop onEmpirical Analysis of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade”, London, November 11, 2009
  • DIME workshop: Markets and firms dynamics: from micro patterns to aggregate behaviors. December 2-4, 2009, Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
  • COST Workshop on Innovation, Firm Dynamics and Industry Outcomes, Amsterdam, December 11, 2009
  • Attended the NBER productivity meeting, Cambridge, March 5, 2010
  • Attended the EITI Conference in Tokyo, March 11-13, 2010
  • DIME-ISGEP workshop on Firm selection and Country Competitiveness, March 24-26, 2010, Nice
  • NOITS 2010, May 21-22, 2010, Helsinki

Short Term Visits

Harvard Business School, November-December 2004

Chicago GSB, September 2006

GREDEG-OFCE, Nice, January 2007; July 2008

European Commission (March 2009 and May-June 2009)

PhD Supervision/Assessment

Co-supervisor (current): Philipp Meinen

External examiner, Olivia Mollen, Trinity College Dublin (2007) [now at European Commission]; Qi Li, University College Dublin (2009)

Chair of the assessment committee, Nikolai Kristensen, ASB (2008) [now at SFI]

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: June 2010