Christos Makridis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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1.

Measuring the Economic Effects of Data Breaches on Firm Outcomes: Challenges and Opportunities

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2018
Christos Makridis and Benjamin Dean
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)
Downloads 241 (125,179)
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Cyber Crime, Data Breaches, Productivity, Information Security

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(Why) Is There a Public/Private Pay Gap?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 25 May 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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careers, development and training, earnings, management, public-private pay gap

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Is Cash Still King: Why Firms Offer Non-Wage Compensation and the Implications for Shareholder Value

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Dec 2017
Tim Liu, Christos Makridis, Paige Ouimet and Elena Simintzi
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Do Right-to-Work Laws Work? Evidence from Individual Well-Being and Economic Sentiment

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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right-to-work, sentiment, union, well-being, welfare

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Firm Reputation Following Financial Misconduct: Evidence from Employee Ratings

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2019
Christos Makridis and Yuqing Zhou
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management, Students
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Financial Misconduct, Firm Reputation, Employee Ratings

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Can You Feel the Heat? Extreme Temperatures, Stock Returns, and Economic Sentiment

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2018
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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beliefs, climate, sentiment, temperature

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The Local Effects of Foreclosures

Number of pages: 131 Posted: 14 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2018
Christos Makridis and Michael Ohlrogge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering, Students
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Employment, Foreclosures, Labor Markets, Mortgages, Uncertainty

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Does Culture Pay? Evidence from Crowdsourced Employee Engagement Data

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 24 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2018
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Organizational practices, job satisfaction, turnover, compensating differentials, productivity

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Sentimental Business Cycles and the Protracted Great Recession

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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beliefs, business cycles, consumption, sentiments, well-being

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Structural Transformation and the Rise of Information Technology

Prepared for the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference Series on Public Policy, 2017
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 16 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2018
Giovanni Gallipoli and Christos Makridis
Vancouver School of Economics, UBC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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information technology, productivity, skill premia, structural transformation

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Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2019
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos Makridis
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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incentives, innovation, management, productivity, research and development

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On the Cyclicality of Real Wages and Employment: New Evidence and Stylized Facts from Performance Pay and Fixed Wage Jobs

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2019
Christos Makridis and Maury Gittleman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Bureau of Labor Statistics
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business cycle, compensation, employment, incentives, pay for performance

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Foreclosure Spillovers and Individual Well-Being: Evidence from the Great Recession

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2019
Christos Makridis and Michael Ohlrogge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering, Students
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foreclosures, housing market, life satisfaction, well-being

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Rise of the 'Quants' in Financial Services: Regulation and Crowding Out of Routine Jobs

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2018
Christos Makridis and Michael Reher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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Fintech, Financial Services, High Tech Workers, Regulation, STEM

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Do Product Market Reforms Raise Innovation? Evidence from Micro-data Across 12 Countries

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 May 2019
Anastasia Litina, Christos Makridis and Georgios Tsiachtsiras
University of Ioannina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Barcelona
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competition; digital economy; product market reforms; innovation; regulation; research & development

16.

Valuing the Welfare Gains of Uber

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jan 2019
Christos Makridis and Yongwook Paik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and KAIST College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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housing prices, life satisfaction, ride sharing, Uber, welfare

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Housing Market Regulation and Labor Market Dynamism

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 May 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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cost of living, housing market regulation, labor market dynamism, turnover

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Stuck in the Seventies: Gas Prices and Macroeconomic Expectations

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2019
Carola Binder and Christos Makridis
Haverford College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Consumer sentiment, macroeconomic expectations, selective attention, gas prices, behavioral macroeconomics

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Moving to Opportunity? The Geography of the Foreclosure Crisis and the Importance of Location

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 May 2018
Christos Makridis and Michael Ohlrogge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering, Students
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foreclosure, financial crisis, mobility, unemployment

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Is Recycling Good for the Economy and Environment or Just Hot Air? Evidence from California between 1993-2013

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Christos Makridis and Gregory Dawson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Arizona State University (ASU)
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Recycling and Conservation, Tiebout Sorting, Energy Consumption, Environmental Quality, Public Policy

21.

Determinants of Cyber Readiness

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Christos Makridis and Max Smeets
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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cyber security, cyber readiness, information technology, productivity

22.

Does Housing Make I.T. Boom? The Collateral Channel, Information Technology, and Skilled Labor

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Sep 2017
Christos Makridis, Pei-Yu Chen and Bin Gu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems and Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems
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Housing prices, information technology, collateral channel, skill bias

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(Why) Are Housing Costs Rising?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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housing affordability, labor costs, regulation, wages

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Time to Research? The Cyclicality of Time Use in R&D Among Private and Public Sector Workers

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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cyclicality, innovation, public and private sector, research & development

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Refined by Fire: The Great Depression and Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 May 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2019
Christos Makridis and Erin McGuire
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and National Bureau of Economic Research
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entrepreneurship, Great Depression, personal experience

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Beating the Heat: Temperature and Spatial Reallocation over the Short and Long-run

Posted: 11 Jan 2019
Christos Makridis and Tyler Ransom
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Oklahoma

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climate, productivity, reallocation, weather, growth

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Work and Grow Rich: The Dynamic Effects of Performance Pay Contracts

Posted: 11 Jan 2019
Christos Makridis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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human capital, skill premium, earnings inequality, on the job learning, pay for performance