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(Updated December 2009)

 

 

PABLO CASAS-ARCE

 

Department of Economics and Business

Phone: +34 93 542 2874

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Fax: +34 93 542 1746

Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27

E-mail: pablo.casas@upf.edu

Barcelona 08005, Spain

Url: http://www.econ.upf.edu/~casas

 

 

 

CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS

 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business. September 2006 to present.

 

Ramon y Cajal Fellow. December 2009 to present.

 

IESE – SPSP Research Center

 

Research Fellow. September 2008 to present.

 

University of Oxford

 

Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Nuffield College. September 2003 to August 2006.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Harvard University

 

PhD in Economics. June 2003.

 

Thesis Title: Essays on the Economics of Organizations

 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

B.A. in Economics. June 1998.

 

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Two years of the B.A. program in Mathematics.

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Contract Theory, Economics of Organizations, Law and Economics, Corporate Finance

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Relative Performance Compensation, Contests and Dynamic Incentives,” (with Asís Martínez-Jerez) Management Science, Vol. 55, 2009, 1306-1320.

 

“Owning versus Renting: Do Courts Matter?” (with Albert Saiz) Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming

 

“Dismissals and Quits in Repeated Games,” Economic Theory, forthcoming

 

“Career Tournaments,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming

 

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

“Opportunism and Incomplete Contracts,” (with Thomas Kittsteiner)

“Job Design and the Benefits of Private Trade,” (with Santhi Hejeebu)

“Customer Lifetime Value Metrics and Frontline Decision Making at a Bank,” (with Asís Martínez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan)

“The All-pay Auction with Handicaps,” (with Asís Martínez-Jerez)

 

 

“Lecture Notes on Industrial Organization”

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Lecturer on Personnel Economics, Undergraduate course, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Winter 2009

Lecturer on Personnel Economics, Undergraduate course, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Fall 2007

Lecturer on Personnel Economics, Undergraduate course, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Fall 2006

Lecturer on the Theory of the Firm, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Spring 2006

Lecturer on Industrial Organization, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Fall 2005

Class teacher for Microeconomic Theory, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Fall 2005

Lecturer on Industrial Organization, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Spring 2005

Class teacher for Microeconomic Theory, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Spring 2005

Class teacher for Microeconomic Theory, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. 2003-2004

Lecturer on Bargaining and Contracts, M.Phil. course, University of Oxford. Fall 2003

Teaching fellow for Econ2010a, Microeconomic Theory, Ph.D. course, Harvard University. Fall 2001

Teaching fellow for Econ2010a, Microeconomic Theory, Ph.D. course, Harvard University. Fall 2000

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Pompeu Fabra University. Research assistant for Professor José García Montalvo. 1997-1998.

 

Valenti Rius Clapers, S.A. (Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, Spain). Internship in the Financial, Marketing and Logistic Activities Area of the Export Trade Department. Summer 1996.

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

2009

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 

2008

University of St. Andrews, Université de Paris

 

2006

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universidad de Alicante, Queen Mary, Southampton, Brunel, Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell, IESE, UCL

 

2005

Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam, University of Essex

 

2003

Oxford, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Alicante, Bocconi

 

2002

University of Iowa

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Simposio de Análisis Económico (Valencia), 2009

Jornadas de Economía Industrial (Vigo), 2009

Econometric Society European Meeting (Milan), 2008

European Economic Association Meeting (Milan), 2008

European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee, Switzerland), 2008

IESE Workshop, 2008

Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation Conference, North Carolina State University, 2008

Simposio de Análisis Económico (Granada), 2007

Econometric Society European Meeting (Budapest), 2007

European Economic Association Meeting (Budapest), 2007

IESE Workshop, 2006 (Discussant)

Econometric Society World Congress (London), 2005

European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee, Switzerland), 2005

American Economic Association Meeting (Philadelphia), 2005

Econometric Society European Meeting (Madrid), 2004

European Economic Association Meeting (Madrid), 2004

 

 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, 2009-2014

Grant from Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, SEJ2007-64340 (Principal researcher: José García Montalvo), 2008-2012

Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, 2006-2009

Young Economist Award EEA2004

Harvard University Ph.D. Tuition Fellowship, 2002-2003

Danielian Fund (Harvard) for project: “Job Design and the Benefits of Private Trade,” 2002

Harvard University GIC Award for Excellence in Teaching (Ec2010a, Fall 2001)

Harvard University GIC Award for Excellence in Teaching (Ec2010a, Fall 2000)

Bank of Spain Fellowship, 1998-2002

Spanish Ministry of Education and Science Research Fellowship, 1997-1998

Caixa de Manresa Savings Bank Fellowship, 1997-1998

 

 

REFEREE FOR

 

Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Fiscal Studies, Bulletin of Economic Research, Journal of Institutional Economics, Spanish Economic Review, Revista de Economía Aplicada, InDret

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

PhD thesis examiner, Yolanda Portilla (Universidad Carlos III), 2009

Program committee member of the Econometric Society European Meeting 2009

Program committee member of the Econometric Society European Meeting 2008

Member of the recruiting committee, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007-08 and 2008-09

Organizer of the microeconomics seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007-08 and 2008-09

Participant in Pompeu Fabra’s promotional seminars for high school students, 2006-07 and 2007-08

PhD thesis examiner, Giorgio Zanarone (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 2008

PhD thesis examiner, Fabio Feriozzi (Universidad Carlos III), 2007

Organizer of the “semana de los recursos humanos” at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007