Chad Syverson
George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
Job-Hoppers Could Boost Productivity
Increasing output requires promoting employment mobility.
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Biography
Chad Syverson's research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. His research has been published in several top journals and has earned multiple National Science Foundation Awards. He also coauthored (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) an intermediate-level text, Microeconomics.
"My engineering background definitely spurred my research interest in productivity. I like to visit factories and investigate how things are put together, what can go wrong when they are, and what factors influence companies鈥� operating success (or lack thereof)."
Syverson is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on National Academies committees and as the chair of the Chicago Census Research Data Center Board. Prior to his appointment at the University of Chicago, Syverson was a mechanical engineer for Loral Defense Systems and Unisys Corporation.
He earned bachelor's degrees in 1996 from the University of North Dakota in economics and mechanical engineering. He earned his PhD in economics in 2001 from the University of Maryland. Syverson joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008.
Selected Publications
鈥淢arkups and Markdowns.鈥� in Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming.
鈥淧roductivity Gaps and Job Flows: Evidence from Censal Microdata.鈥� (with El铆as Albagli, Mario Canales, Mat铆as Tapia, Juan Wlasiuk) in Economic Journal, February 2025.
Microeconomics, 4th Ed. (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt), Worth, 2024.
鈥淭he Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment.鈥� (with Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun, Shruthi Venkatesh) in Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
鈥淢onopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks.鈥� (with Austan Goolsbee) in Journal of Labor Economics, 41(1), (October 2023): S257-S290.
鈥淎n Industrial Organization Perspective on Productivity.鈥� (with Jan De Loecker), in Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol. 4, Kate Ho, Ali Horta莽su, and Alessandro Lizzeri, eds., Amsterdam: North Holland, 2021.
鈥淧roduct Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan鈥檚 Early Industrialization.鈥� (with Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama, and Tetsuji Okazaki), American Economic Review, 111(12), (December 2021), 3795-3826.
鈥淔ear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020.鈥� (with Austan Goolsbee), Journal of Public Economics, 193, (January 2021).
鈥淭he Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies (with Erik Brynjolfsson and Daniel Rock), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(1), (January 2021), 333-72.
For a listing of research publications, please visit the听.
2024 - 2025 Course Schedule
| Number | Course Title | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Industrial Organization I | 2024 (Autumn) | |
| The Economics of Companies | 2024 (Autumn) |
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