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: donna.1@osu.edu

Fields of Research Interest:

  • Industrial Organization
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Auctions

Teaching:

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

I joined the Ohio State University Economics Department in 2012, after completing my Ph. D. at Northwestern University. My area of expertise is empirical industrial organization. In 2016 I was named the Howard P. Marvel Scholar by the Department of Economics. I am from Mendoza in Argentina, where I received a B.A. in Economics at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and an M.A. in Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. 

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.

Here you will find my research page, vita, and contact information.  

Enjoy your visit!

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

(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.