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The Profit Paradox. How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
Princeton University Press, June 2021.
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"Provocative, ambitious, and pitch-perfect for this moment. Eeckhout shows how the rise of mega-profitable superstar corporations makes us all poorer.” — David Autor, MIT
PUBLICATIONS
The Technological Origins of the Decline in Labor Market Dynamism
J. Eeckhout, X. Weng
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control forthcoming, 2024
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IT and Urban Polarization
J. Eeckhout, C. Hedtrich, R. Pinheiro
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics forthcoming, 2024
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Media: VoxEU
Market Power and Wage Inequality
S. Deb, J. Eeckhout, A. Patel, L. Warren
Econometrica 92(3), 2024, 603-636
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Comment G. Violante · Comment J. Van Reenen · Reply
The Effect of Wealth on Worker Productivity
J. Eeckhout, A. Sepahsalari
Review of Economic Studies 91(3), 2024, 1584–1633
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What drives Wage Stagnation: Monopsony or Monopoly?
S. Deb, J. Eeckhout, A. Patel, L. Warren
Journal of the European Economic Association 20(6), 2022, 2181-2225
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The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications
J. De Loecker, J. Eeckhout, G. Unger
Quarterly Journal of Economics 135(2), 2020, 561-644 (lead article)
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Media: Economist · WSJ · FT · NYT · Bloomberg · Reuters · Quartz · HBR · Pro Market · Noahpinion · Marginal Revolution · Growth Economics · Vox · NYT (2018)
Competing Teams
H. Chade, J. Eeckhout
Review of Economic Studies 87(3), 2020, 1134-1173
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Unemployment Cycles
J. Eeckhout, I. Lindenlaub
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 11(4), 2019, 175-234
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Assortative Matching with Large Firms
J. Eeckhout, P. Kircher
Econometrica 86(1), 2018, 85-132
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Matching Information
H. Chade, J. Eeckhout
Theoretical Economics 13, 2018, 377-414
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Sorting Through Search and Matching Models in Economics
H. Chade, J. Eeckhout, L. Smith
Journal of Economic Literature 55(2), 2017, 493-544
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Common Value Experimentation
J. Eeckhout, X. Weng
Journal of Economic Theory 160, 2015, 317-339
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Spatial Sorting
J. Eeckhout, R. Pinheiro, K. Schmidheiny
Journal of Political Economy 122(3), 2014, 554-620
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Diverse Organizations and the Competition for Talent
J. Eeckhout, R. Pinheiro
International Economic Review 55(3), 2014, 625-664
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Occupational Choice and Development
J. Eeckhout, B. Jovanovic
Journal of Economic Theory 147(2), 2012, 657-683
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Identifying Sorting – In Theory
J. Eeckhout, P. Kircher
Review of Economic Studies 78, 2011, 872-906
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Sorting and Decentralized Price Competition
J. Eeckhout, P. Kircher
Econometrica, 78(2), 2010, 539-574
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A Theory of Optimal Crackdowns
J. Eeckhout, N. Persico, P. Todd
American Economic Review 100, 2010, 1104-1135
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Sorting vs Screening: Search Frictions and Competing Mechanisms
J. Eeckhout, P. Kircher
Journal of Economic Theory 145, 2010, 1354-1385
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Matching in Informal Financial Institutions
J. Eeckhout, K. Munshi
Journal of the European Economic Association 8(5), 2010, 947-988
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Gibrat’s Law for (All) Cities: Reply
J. Eeckhout
American Economic Review 99, 2009, 1676-1683
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Bargaining over Public Goods
J. Dávila, J. Eeckhout, C. Martinelli
Journal of Public Economic Theory 11(6), 2009, 927-945
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Competitive Bargaining Equilibrium
J. Dávila, J. Eeckhout
Journal of Economic Theory 139(1), 2008, 269-294
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Minorities and Endogenous Segregation
J. Eeckhout
Review or Economic Studies 73(1) No. 254, 2006, 31-53
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Indeterminacy and Directed Search
M. Coles, J. Eeckhout
Journal of Economic Theory 111, 2003, 265-276
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Knowledge Spillovers and Inequality
J. Eeckhout, B. Jovanovic
American Economic Review 92(5), 2002, 1290-1307
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Bilateral Search and Vertical Heterogeneity
J. Eeckhout
International Economic Review 40, 1999, 869-888
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Educational Mobility: the Effect on Efficiency and Distribution
J. Eeckhout
Economica 66, 1999, 317-333
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COMMENTARY
Market Power and Labor Market Inequality
J. Eeckhout
IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, April 2022
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Dominant Firms in the Digital Age
J. Eeckhout
UBS Center for Economics in Society, Public Paper, November 2022
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Book Review: The Great Reversal, by Thomas Philippon
J. Eeckhout
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021
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Comment on Azar and Vives' Walras-Bowley Lecture
J. Eeckhout
Econometrica 89(3), 2021, 1049-1053
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Comment on: Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration
By E Rossi-Hansberg, P Sarte, N Trachter
J. Eeckhout
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 35, 2021
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