Javier D. Donna
Howard P. Marvel Scholar Assistant Professor of Economics
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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@gmail.com

Fields of Research Interest:

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

Teaching:

  • Ph.D. Empirical IO
  • Undergraduate IO
  • Undergraduate Government and Business
Welcome!

I'm Assistant Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at the Ohio State University. I completed my Ph. D. at Northwestern University. I am from Mendoza, Argentina.  

My research focuses on estimating demand and its implications for price competition, market power, and the efficiency of market and non-market institutions. My methodological approach, structural estimation, requires a combination of theoretical and econometric skills. My research is centered on empirical auctions and models of strategic interactions, such as discrete choice and networks models.

I teach industrial organization both at the undergraduate and Ph.D. levels.

Submitted and Working Papers:

Revise and resubmit at the 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.

Revise and resubmit at the RAND Journal of Economics. 
○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3285200.

Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Human Resources. 
○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3285202.

(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.

(with P. Schenone and G. Veramendi). Under review. 
○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667585.
○ Note: Draft with empirical application is available upon request.

(with J. Espin-Sanchez). Under review. 
○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667588.

Research in Progress:

1. “Quantifying the Welfare Effects in Networked Markets.”
(with J. Boehnke, D. Masterov, and G. Veramendi)

2. “Consideration Sets and Price Dispersion: Evidence from eBay.”
(with J. Boehnke, D. Masterov, and G. Veramendi)
○ Note: Slides available upon request.

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

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

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

(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).

(with P. Schenone and G. Veramendi), Economics Letters, 138, 81-84, 2016. 
○ Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2667659.

(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:

1. “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.