Jonas Hjort
Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business
Economics
BSc, Economics, London School of Economics, 2005; MA, MA International Development Economics, Yale, 2006; PhD Economics, UC Berkeley, 2012
Joined CBS in 2012
Office:
574
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-5957
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-316-9219
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Hjort teaches Managerial Economics and a Global Immersion course on East Africa. His research focuses on firms, organizations and workers in developing countries
Teaching
Fall 2021
Spring 2020
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Managerial Economics
(MBA)
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Fall 2017
Research
Journal articles
How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities
In American Economic Review
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Diana Moreira, Gautam Rao, Juan Francisco Santini
Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters
In Journal of Political Economy
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Chris Hansman, Jonas Hjort, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Matthieu Teachout
Interlinked Firms and the Consequences of Piecemeal Regulation
In Journal of the European Economic Association
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Chris Hansman, Jonas Hjort, Gianmarco Leon
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa
In American Economic Review
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Jonas Poulsen
Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program
In American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten, Miriam Wüst
Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
In Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort
Pre-Colonial Culture, Post-Colonial Economic Success? The Tswana and the African Economic Miracle
In The Economic History Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort
Working papers
Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Vinayak Iyer, Jonas Hjort, Golvine de Rochambeau
Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from "Missing" Transactions in Uganda
In Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Miguel Almunia, Jonas Hjort, Justine Knebelmann, Lin Tian
The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Hannes Malmberg, Todd Schoellman
Ethnic Investing and the Value of Firms
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Changcheng Song, Christopher Yenkey
Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Xuan Li, Heather Sarsons
The Economic Impact of Internet Connectivity in Developing Countries
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Lin Tian
Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Michael Carlos Best, Jonas Hjort, David Szakonyi