Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance, Economic Analysis and Policy Area, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Special Economic Advisor, Competition Bureau

Managing Editor, Economic Journal. (Here are some haiku abstracts of recent EJ papers.) Please send your excellent work

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, CANADA; email: heski.bar-isaac@rotman.utoronto.ca; Tel: ++1 416 978 3626; Fax: ++1 416 978 5433; BlueSky @profeski.bsky.social 

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Recent Papers

Monetizing Steering (with Sandro Shelegia)

Acquihiring for Monopsony Power with Justin Johnson and Volker Nocke, Management Science, accepted. This paper was awarded the Robert F. Lanzilotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics at the 2024 International Industrial Organization Conference.

Targeted Product Design (with Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cuñat) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023, 15(2), 157-86.

Search, Showrooming and Retailer Variety (with Sandro Shelegia) Marketing Science, 2023, Vol 42(2), 251-270.  Here is a cartoon video introduction. 

Training, Recruitment, and Outplacement as Endogenous Asymmetric Information (with Clare Leaver), Economica,  89, 2022, 849–861. Here is a  cartoon video introduction.

Motivating Employees through Career Paths (with Raphaël Lévy) Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 40 (1), 2022, 95-131.

Coming Soon (ish...)

Content Moderation for Sale: Pricing Attention through Steering and Certification with Rahul Deb and Matt Michell

Adverse Selection and Varies of Training with Raphaël Lévy

On Algorithms and Diversion with Sandro Shelegia

Access to Clients and Professional Careers: Theory and Evidence from Law Firms, with Mariagiovanna Baccara, Bernardo Silveira, and Natasha Watkins 

Shareholder Composition and Governance with Joel Shapiro


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Other great journals that I'm involved with:  RAND Journal of Economics (Associate Editor) or have been involved with American Economic Review; Journal of Industrial Economics; Canadian Journal of Economics; International Journal of Industrial Organization 


Other affiliations: CEPR Research Fellow; CRESSE Associate, Industrial Organization Society