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Emin M. Dinlersoz

Center for Economic Studies

U.S. Census Bureau

4600 Silver Hill Rd.

Suitland, MD 20746

edinlersoz@gmail.com

https://sites.google.com/site/emindinlersoz/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emin-dinlersoz-874a8822/

Education

   2000   Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester

   1994   B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University

Work Experience

   2016-present: Principal Economist, Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau

   2012-2016: Senior Economist, Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau

   2009-2012: Economist, Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau

   2007-2009: Senior Economist, Cornerstone Research, Inc., Washington, D.C.

   2000-2007: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston

   Dec 2001, Dec 2004, July 2007: Visiting Scholar, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

   May 2002: Visiting Scholar, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Publications

A. Journal Articles

1. "AI Adoption in America: Who, What, and Where", with Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Zachary Kroff, J. Frank Li, Kristina McElheran, and Nikolas Zolas, forthcoming, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, October 2023.

2. "Automation, Labor Share, and Productivity: Plant-level Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing", with Zoltan Wolf, forthcoming, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, June 2023.

3. "Are Business Applications Early Economic Indicators?", with Jose Asturias, John Haltiwanger, and Rebecca Hutchinson. AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023.

4. "Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?", with Daron Acemoglu, Gary Anderson, David Beede, Catherine Buffington, Eric Childress, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo and Nikolas Zolas. AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023.

5. "Infrastructure Investment and Growth in China: A Quantitative Assessment", with Zhe Fu.  Journal of Development Economics, Volume 158, September 2022, 102916.

6. "Synergizing Ventures", with Ufuk Akcigit, Jeremy Greenwood, and Veronika Penciakova. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 143, October 2022, 104427.

7.  "High Frequency Business Dynamics in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic",  with Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Lucia Foster, and John Haltiwanger. Business Economics, 2021, 56:155-167.

8.  "Business Formation: A Tale of Two Recessions", with Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger, and Veronika Penciakova. American Economic Review, May 2021, Volume 111, Pages 253-257. 

9.  "Productivity Dispersion, Misallocation, and Reallocation Frictions: Theory and Evidence from Policy Reforms", with David Brown and John Earle, Comparative Economic Studies, 2021.

10.  "Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in A Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets", with Hubert Janicki and Henry Hyatt, Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2019, Volume 34, Pages 244-266.

11.  "An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration", with Nathan Goldschlag, Amanda Myers, and Nikolas Zolas, Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century, 2018.

12.  "The Rise and Fall of Unions in the United States", with Jeremy Greenwood, Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2016, Volume 83, Pages 129-146.

13. "What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Establishments", with Jeremy Greenwood and Henry Hyatt, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, May 2017, Volume 70, Pages 733-766.

14.  "The Plant Life-Cycle of the Average Wage of Employees in US Manufacturing", with Henry Hyatt and Sang Nguyen, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:7.

15.  "Quality-based Price Discrimination: Evidence from Internet Retailers' Shipping Options", Journal of Retailing, Volume 88, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 276–290.

16.  "Information and Industry Dynamics", with Mehmet Yorukoglu, American Economic Review, Volume 102, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 884-913.

17.  "Tariffs vs. Anti-dumping Duties," with Can Dogan, International Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 19, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 436-451.

18. "The Industry Life-cycle of the Size Distribution of Firms," with Glenn MacDonald, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 648-667.

19. "Informative Advertising by Heterogeneous Firms," with Mehmet Yorukoglu, Information Economics and Policy, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 168-191.

20.  "On the Diffusion of Electronic Commerce," with Pedro Pereira, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 25, Issue 3, June 2007, Pages 541-574.

21. "The Shipping Strategies of Internet Retailers: Evidence from Internet Book Retailing," with Han Li, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2006, Pages 407-438.

22.  "Patterns of Diffusion of E-commerce in Retail Industries: Theory and Evidence," with Pedro Pereira, CES/ifo Economic Studies, Volume 51, Number 2-3, 2005, Pages 261-294.

23.  "Firm Organization and the Structure of Retail Markets," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2004, Pages 207-240.

24.  "Cities and the Organization of Manufacturing," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 34, Number 1, January 2004, Pages 71-100.

25.  "More on Phantom Bidding," with Parimal K. Bag and Ruqu Wang, Economic Theory, Volume 15, May 2000, Pages 701-707.

26.  "Drug Prices under the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program," with Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Han Li, and Roger Sherman, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2008.

27.  "The Diffusion of Electronic Business in the U.S.," with Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Volume 87, Number 1, January/February 2005, Pages 11-34.

28.  "Did 'Right-to-Work' Work for Idaho?," with Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Volume 84, Number 3, May/June 2002, Pages 29-42.

B. Book Chapters

1."Tracking the Progress of Census Operations", with J. David Brown, Shawn Klimek, Mark Kutzbach, and Kristin McCue, Chapter 5 in Models of Census Participation, edited by Peter Miller.

2."Use of Statistical Models to Inform Census Operations", with J. David Brown, Shawn Klimek, Mark Kutzbach, and Kristin McCue, Chapter 6 in Models of Census Participation, edited by Peter Miller.

3."Diffusion of Electronic Commerce," in Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy, edited by Gerhard Illing and Martin Peitz, MIT Press, June 2006.

4."More on Phantom Bidding," in Auction Theory and Industrial Organization, edited by Ruqu Wang and Guofu Tan, Beijing University Press, 2001.

 C. Working papers and work in progress

1. "Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms:Evidence from the Annual Business Survey", with Nikolas Zolas, Zachary Kroff , Erik Brynjolfsson, Kristina McElheran, David Beede, Catherine Buffington, Nathan Goldschlag, and Lucia Foster. CES Working Paper CES-20-40 version: December 2020. 

2. "Measuring the Effect of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: The Small Business Pulse Survey", with Catherine Buffington, Carrie Dennis, Lucia Foster and Shawn Klimek. CES Working Paper CES-20-16 version: May 2020.

3. "Automation, Labor Share, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing", with Zoltan Wolf. CES Working Paper WP-18-39.

4. "Leverage over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Firms", with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Henry Hyatt, and Veronika Penciakova.

5.  "Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers", with Tim Dunne, Javier Miranda, John Haltiwanger, Kim Bayard, and John Stevens. 

6. "Modeling Small Firm Returns in the 2007 Economic Census", with Shawn Klimek.