Matthew Backus
Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor
Economics
Joined CBS in 2015
Office:
611
Uris
Phone:
212-851-2446
E-mail:
[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Matthew Backus is the Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor at Columbia Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the Economics Department at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he focused on topics in industrial organization. His research interests include the determinants of firm-level productivity, estimation of consumer demand using data from auction-based marketplaces, and the role of cheap-talk communication in bargaining. He is also interested in the application of methods from machine learning and computer science in econometric analysis.
Teaching
Spring 2021
Designing Markets: The Economics of Matching, Auctions, and Platforms
(MBA)
Spring 2020
Designing Markets: The Economics of Matching, Auctions, and Platforms
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Fall 2017
Managerial Economics
(MBA)
Managerial Economics
(EMBA)
Fall 2016
Managerial Economics
(EMBA)
Managerial Economics
(MBA)
Managerial Economics
(EMBA)
Research
Journal articles
On the Empirical Content of Cheap-Talk Signaling: An Application to Bargaining
In Journal of Political Economy
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Steven Tadelis
Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Auction Markets
In European Economic Review
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Joseph Podwol, Henry Schneider
Working papers
I Don't Know
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Andrew Little
Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Brad Larsen, Steven Tadelis
Expectation, Disappointment, and Exit: Evidence on Reference Point Formation from an Online Marketplace
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Dimitriy Masterov
Dynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Gregory Lewis
Is Sniping a Problem for Online Auction Markets?
In NBER Working Paper No. 20942
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Tom Blake, Dimitriy Masterov, Steven Tadelis
Why Is Productivity Correlated with Competition?
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus
A Demand System for a Dynamic Auction Market with Directed Search
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Backus, Gregory Lewis