Javier D. Donna

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Contact Information:

Department of Economics
The Ohio State University
1945 N High St
425 Arps Hall
Columbus, OH 43210-1120, USA

Phone: 614-688-0364
Fax: 614-292-3906

E-mail: jdonna at gmail.com

Fields of Research Interest:

○ Industrial Organization
○ Applied Microeconomics
○ Environmental and Transportation Economics
○ Auctions

Teaching:

○ Ph.D. Empirical IO
○ Government and Business

Submitted and Working Papers:

1. “The Illiquidity of Water Markets: Efficient Institutions for Water Allocation in Southeastern Spain.” (with J. Espin-Sanchez).
Revise and resubmit at Review of Economic Studies.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667654.

○ Additional Material: Online Appendix Note with Additional Results Interviews

○ Award: Awarded the Public Utility Research Prize for the Best Paper in Regulatory Economics at the IIOC, April 2016.

○ Presentations: 2016 NBER Summer Institute Industrial Organization, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Applied Industrial Organization, Empirical Microeconomics Workshop, among others.

○ Media coverage: Summarized in Europe Now (PDF) special double issue on Water, Global Water Forum, VOX EU, and News and Updates.

2. “Measuring Long-Run Price Elasticities in Urban Travel Demand.”

Revise and resubmit at RAND Journal of Economics.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3285200.

○ Additional Material: Online Appendix
○ Presentations: IIOC; Consumer Search and Switching Costs Workshop (UCLA Anderson School of Management, Marketing Department); Barcelona GSE Summer Forum – Applied Industrial Organization (scheduled); Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) – Session 3: Empirical Implementation Models of Strategic Interaction and Dynamic Behavior Workshop (scheduled).

3. “Gender Differences within the Firm: Evidence from Two Million Travelers.” (with G. Veramendi).
Conditionally accepted at Journal of Human Resources.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3285202.

○ Media coverage: Harvard Business Review, CWT Solutions, The Economist, Fortune, Yahoo! Finance, News and Updates, Slate, Business Travel News, CWT Solutions Group, OnCampus, El Economista, Daily Mail, among others.

4. “Networks, Frictions, and Price Dispersion.” (with P. Schenone and G. Veramendi).

Conditionally accepted at Games and Economic Behavior.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667585.

○ Presentations: 2017 NBER Summer Institute Micro and Macro Perspectives, among others.

5. “Let the Punishment Fit the Criminal: Punishment Progressivity in a Self-governed Community in Southeastern Spain.” (with J. Espin-Sanchez).
Revise and resubmit at The Economic History Review.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667588.

6. “Measuring the Welfare of Intermediaries in Vertical Markets.”
(with P. Pereira, T. Pires, and A. Trindade), under review.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3285205.

○ Additional Material: Online Appendix

○ Award: Awarded Best Paper in the "Market Competition" by Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos, Portuguese Ministry of Economics, May 2018.
○ Presentations: 2017 Triangle Microeconomics Conference in Honor to Tiago Pires, IIOC, SED, and Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Consumer Search and Switching Costs, among others.

Research in Progress:

1. “Direct-to-Consumers Sales by Manufacturers and Bargaining.”
(with P. Pereira, A. Trindade, R. Yoshida)

2. “Quantifying the Welfare Effects in Networked Markets.”

(with J. Boehnke, D. Masterov, and G. Veramendi)

○ Extended abstract.

3. “Consideration Sets and Price Dispersion: Evidence from eBay.”

(with J. Boehnke, D. Masterov, and G. Veramendi)

○ Note: Slides available upon request.

4. “Estimating the Network Structure of Labor Markets: The Effect of Job Search Assistance.”
(with R. Vejlin and G. Veramendi)

5. “Quantity Discounts, Price Discrimination, and Incentive Compatibility Constraints.”
(with T. Pires)

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

1. “Complements and Substitutes in Sequential Auctions: The Case of Water Auctions."
(with J. Espin-Sanchez), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 87–127, 2018.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667579.
○ Additional Material: Paper at Rand Online Appendix Interviews.

○ Awards: Best Paper Award at EARIE (2012) and JEI (2012).

2. “Frictions in Internet Auctions with Many Traders: a Counterexample.”
(with P. Schenone and G. Veramendi), Economics Letters, 138, 81-84, 2016.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667659.

3. “Crime and Beliefs: Evidence from Latin America.”

(with R. Di Tella and R. MacCulloch), Economics Letters, 99, 566–569, 2008.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667660.

Book Chapters:

4. “Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility, and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela.”

(with R. Di Tella and R. MacCulloch), In: Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse, chapter 13, edited by Ricardo Hausmann, and Francisco R. Rodríguez, Penn State University Press, 2014.

○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667587.

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