Andrea Prat
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business
Economics
Joined CBS in 2012
Office:
596
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-6176
E-mail:
[email protected]
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Andrea Prat is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Columbia University. After receiving his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 1997, he taught at Tilburg University and the London School of Economics. He joined Columbia in 2012.
Professor Prat's work focuses on organizational economics and political economy. His current research in organizational economics explores - through theoretical modeling, field experiments, and data analysis - issues such as incentive provision, corporate leadership, employee motivation, and organizational language. Professor Prat is a principal investigator of the Executive Time Use Project. His current research in political economy attempts to define and measure the influence of the media industry on the democratic process.
He is the author of numerous articles in leading journals in economics and finance including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He served as Chairman and Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. He is an Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics and a director of the Industrial Organization program of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. Professor Prat was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013.
Research
Journal articles
Managing the Family Firm: Evidence on CEOs at Work
In Review of Financial Studies
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun
Sellers with Misspecified Models
In The Review of Economic Studies
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Kristof Madarasz, Andrea Prat
Managerial Attention and Worker Performance
In American Economic Review
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Andrea Prat
Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
In Economica
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Francois Ortalo-Magne, Andrea Prat
Communication and Influence
In Theoretical Economics
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Antoni Calvo-Armengo, Andrea Prat, Joan de Marti
Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives
In Journal of Labor Economics
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun
On the Political Economy of Urban Growth: Homeownership versus Affordability
In American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Francois Ortalo-Magne, Andrea Prat
Working papers
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein, Andrea Prat
The Political Economy of Mass Media
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Andrea Prat, David Stromberg
The Impact Factor of Managers
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Andrea Prat
Organizational Economics with Cognitive Costs
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Luis Garicano, Andrea Prat
What Do CEOs Do?
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
The World's Largest Hedge Fund Told An Employee He Was a Bad Manager in Front of 200 People — And He Found it 'Energizing'
How the Most (and Least) Successful CEOs Spend Their Workdays
How the Most (and Least) Successful CEOs Spend Their Workdays
A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful
Millennial vote in Italy shows why the global anti-establishment movement is growing