Nicola Persico

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

2001 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208

United States

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1.

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Minor, Persico, & Weiss. IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2018) 7:8 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40173-018-0101-0
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Dylan Minor, Nicola Persico and Deborah M. Weiss
Anderson School of Management (UCLA), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University School of Law
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criminal records, discrimination, Ban the Box, personnel economics, job performance

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Information Acquisition and Refunds for Returns

PIER Working Paper No. 07-021
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Steven A. Matthews and Nicola Persico
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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information acquisition, refunds, money back guarantees, personal fit

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Multitasking, Multi-Armed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Robert Bray, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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empirical production scheduling, multitasking, multi-armed bandits, field experiment, Italian judiciary

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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 3815038
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023
Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino
Northwestern University - Center on Law, Business, and Economics, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - Junior Research Group Competition and Innovation, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and Luiss Guido Carli University
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Gender, diversity, selectorate, STEM, standards

Representation Is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 23-056
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2024
Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino
Northwestern University - Center on Law, Business, and Economics, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - Junior Research Group Competition and Innovation, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and Luiss Guido Carli University
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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

NBER Working Paper No. w28649
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino
Northwestern University - Center on Law, Business, and Economics, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - Junior Research Group Competition and Innovation, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and Luiss Guido Carli University
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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16002
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 May 2021
Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino
Northwestern University - Center on Law, Business, and Economics, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - Junior Research Group Competition and Innovation, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and Luiss Guido Carli University
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Exchange Efficiency with Weak Property Rights

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-35
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2012
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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property rules, liability rules, efficiency

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Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2018
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Bounded rationality, Property rules, Liability rules, Coase Theorem

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

NBER Working Paper No. w16502
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers’ Speed of Job Completion

CEIS Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Individual Production Function, Work Scheduling, Duration of Trials

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Jun 2007
Manolis Galenianos, Nicola Persico and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Royal Holloway, University of London, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
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illicit drugs, search

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

NBER Working Paper No. w14980
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 May 2009 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2022
Manolis Galenianos, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Nicola Persico
Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Discussion Paper No. 858
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Mar 2016
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Property rights, Property rules, Liability rules, Exchange efficiency

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Optimal Procurement with Quality Concerns

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2022-21
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 27 May 2022 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022
Giuseppe Lopomo, Nicola Persico and Alessandro Villa
Fuqua School - Duke University, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Procurement Auctions, Mechanism Design

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Measuring the Gains from Labor Specialization: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jun 2018
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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ESG Choice with Polarized Investors

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Feb 2025
Enrichetta Ravina and Nicola Persico
Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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ESG, Index Funds, Pass-Through Voting, Polarization

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Factions and Political Competition

NBER Working Paper No. w13008
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Nicola Persico, Jose Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, McKinsey & Company and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Economics Department
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8085
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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duration of trials, individual production function, work scheduling

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An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in Nypd's Stop and Frisk Program

NBER Working Paper No. w18803
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 19 May 2023
Decio Coviello and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

NBER Working Paper No. w22570
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2023
Laurent Bouton, Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico
Georgetown University - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11459
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Laurent Bouton, Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico
Georgetown University - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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entitlement programs, fiscal rules, Government Debt, political economy

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Cheap talk, equilibrium selection, forward induction

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Decentralized Deterrence, with an Application to Labor Tax Auditing

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8901
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Edoardo Di Porto, Nicola Persico and Nicolas Sahuguet
CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics
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audits, deterrence, tax evasion

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Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence

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