Michael Raith
Associate Professor
Simon Business School
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
raith@simon.rochester.edu
Research interests: Organizational economics, industrial organization
Working papers:
"Employment as Supply Assurance and Value Capture," August 2025
Previous version: “Employment as Relational Obligation to Work”, September 2021
Publications:
“Talent Management: the Role of Bosses” (with Guido Friebel), June 2025, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming
“What Are Really Good At? Product Strategy with Uncertain Capabilities” (with Matt Selove and Jeanine Miklos-Thal), Marketing Science Vol. 37 (2018), 294-309
“Optimal Incentives and the Time Dimension of Performance Measurement,” Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 147 (2012), pp.2158-2189
“Resource Allocation and Organizational Form” (with Guido Friebel). American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, Vol. 2 (2010)
“Specific Knowledge and Performance Measurement,” RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 39 (2008), pp. 1059-1079
"The U-Shaped Investment Curve: Theory and Evidence" (with Sean Cleary and Paul Povel), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 42 (2007), pp 1-39 (lead article).
"Career Concerns of Bargainers" (with John Fingleton), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 21 (2005), pp. 179-204
"Optimal Debt with Unobservable Investments" (with Paul Povel), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 35 (2004), pp. 599-616
"Financial Constraints and Product Market Competition: Ex-ante vs. Ex-post Incentives" (with Paul Povel), International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 22 (2004), pp. 917-949
"Abuse of Authority and Hierarchical Communication" (with Guido Friebel), RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 35 (2004), pp. 224-244
"Competition, Risk and Managerial Incentives," American Economic Review Vol. 93 (2003), pp. 1425-1436
"A General Model of Information Sharing in Oligopoly," Journal of Economic Theory Vol. 71 (1996), pp. 260-288
"Spatial Retail Markets with Commuting Consumers," International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 14 (1996), pp. 447-463