TI Economics Lectures 2024 | An industrial organisation perspective on firm performance

Course

In these lectures, Professor De Loecker presents an overview of the most recent advances in the industrial organisation literature on firm performance. Special focus is devoted to issues of measurement and identification of the drivers of firm performance. The lectures present and discuss the most recent empirical frameworks to estimate productivity, marginal costs and markups, using micro-level production data. These methods have been used to study the role of technology, market power and international competition in shaping the performance of individual producers, industries and economies at large.

Jan De Loecker is Professor of Economics at the KU Leuven, Belgium, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate at the NBER and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. He obtained his PhD in economics from KU Leuven in 2006. He was on the faculty at NYU from 2006-2008, before moving to Princeton University, where he was on the full-time faculty from 2008-2017 (tenured 2014-2017). He was a visiting faculty at Yale University and Stanford University. He specializes in the areas of industrial organization, international economics and development economics. 

His research is centered around measuring, and identifying the drivers of firm performance. In particular, he has put forward empirical frameworks to estimate productivity, marginal costs and markups, using micro-level production data. These methods have been used to study the role of technology, market power, international competition, in shaping the performance of individual producers, and industries and economies at large. He has published in leading journals, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and various field journals. 

Registration and schedule

More information about the schedule can be found on our web page. Participation is free of charge for affiliated research master students, PhD students, and faculty. Tuition fees apply for external participants: 

External (PhD) students: €500 

External Faculty and professional: €1000 

Capacity for external participants is limited; acceptance is on a first come, first served basis. Deadline for registration May 15, 2024.

Find registration form here: TI Economics Lectures 2024 – Tinbergen.nl

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