Ioana Elena Marinescu

ioana.marinescu@gmail.com

Objective function

I am an economist, currently at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. My research aims at constructing models of the interplay between institutions and the behavior of agents with a focus on economic outcomes. These models should have a direct statistical/econometric counterpart to allow for empirical validation. The statistical analysis of the data should be complemented with the relevant qualitative knowledge about institutions and agents' behavior. Finally, my research should have practical implications for policy making.

Current position

News

• I will be presenting my paper "Separation costs and stochastic productivity in a matching model of job turnover" at the Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association in New Orleans on January 4-6 2008.
• Philippe Aghion and I completed our paper examining the effects of cyclical budgetary policy on economic growth, and how these effects vary with the degree of financial development [pdf]. The paper was presented at the NBER macro annual 2007.

Current research projects

• I am currently investigating how some of the theoretical insights from my paper "Separation costs and stochastic productivity in a matching model of job turnover" translate to the marriage market.
• Having shown that economic conditions influence judges' decisions in unfair dismissal cases in France and the United Kingdom [pdf], I am investigating whether this occurs in the United States as well. Of course, labour courts do not exist in the US, so one has to pick a similar institution, such as the arbitration scheme in the unionized sector.