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David A. Matsa
Assistant Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

Office: (847) 491-8337
Fax: (847) 491-5719
E-mail: dmatsa @ kellogg.northwestern.edu

Publications

Competition and Product Quality in the Supermarket Industry, Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (3), August 2011, p.1539–1591.

Media coverage: Retail Leader [link]

Growing Out of Trouble? Legal Liability and Corporate Responses to Adversity (with Todd Gormley), Review of Financial Studies 24 (8), August 2011, p.2781–2821.

Winner, 2009 CRA International Award For the Best Corporate Finance Paper at the Western Finance Association meeting

Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership (with Amalia Miller), American Economic Review P&P 101 (2), May 2011, p. 635–639.

Media coverage: Slate [link]

Running on Empty? Financial Leverage and Product Quality in the Supermarket Industry, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (1), February 2011, p.137–173.

Online appendix [link]

Kellogg Insight summary [link]

Media coverage: New York Times [link]

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? (with Michael Anderson), American Economic Journal: Applied Microeconomics 3 (1), January 2011, p.152–188.

Kellogg Insight summary [link]

Online appendix [link]

Related writing: Restaurants, Regulation, and the Supersizing of America, Regulation 33 (3), Fall 2010, p.40-47. (cover story)

Media coverage: U.S. News & World Report [link], Globe and Mail [link], Chicago Tribune [link]

Capital Structure as a Strategic Variable: Evidence from Collective Bargaining, Journal of Finance 65 (3), June 2010, p.1197–1232.

Does Malpractice Liability Keep the Doctor Away? Evidence from Tort Reform Damage Caps, Journal of Legal Studies 36 (2), June 2007, p.S143–S182.

Kellogg Insight summary [link]

Pricing Dynamics of Multi-Product Retailers (with Daniel Hosken and David Reiffen), in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Volume 10: Advertising and Differentiated Products, edited by M.R. Baye and J.P. Nelson (New York: Elsevier), 2001, p.129–153.

Working Papers

Common Errors: How to (and Not to) Control for Unobserved Heterogeneity, with Todd Gormley, May 2012

Programming advice [link]

Searching for Talent under Financial Distress, with Jennifer Brown, April 2012

Layoff Decisions at Women-Owned Businesses in the United States, with Amalia Miller, April 2012

CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Todd Gormley and Todd Milbourn), March 2012

Knowledge @ Wharton summary [link]

A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas (with Amalia Miller), December 2011

Media coverage: Slate [link]

Labor Unemployment Risk and Corporate Financing Decisions (with Ashwini Agrawal), November 2011

 

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