Nicola Persico

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

2001 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208

United States

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1.

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 May 2017 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2018
Dylan Minor, Nicola Persico and Deborah M. Weiss
Anderson School of Management (UCLA), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University School of Law
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criminal records, discrimination, Ban the Box, personnel economics, job performance

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Multitasking, Multi-Armed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Robert Bray, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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empirical production scheduling, multitasking, multi-armed bandits, field experiment, Italian judiciary

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Information Acquisition and Refunds for Returns

PIER Working Paper No. 07-021
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Steven A. Matthews and Nicola Persico
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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information acquisition, refunds, money back guarantees, personal fit

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Exchange Efficiency with Weak Property Rights

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-35
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2012
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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property rules, liability rules, efficiency

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Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2018
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Bounded rationality, Property rules, Liability rules, Coase Theorem

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Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Discussion Paper No. 858
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Mar 2016
Oren Bar-Gill and Nicola Persico
Harvard Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Property rights, Property rules, Liability rules, Exchange efficiency

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

NBER Working Paper No. w16502
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers’ Speed of Job Completion

CEIS Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Individual Production Function, Work Scheduling, Duration of Trials

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

NBER Working Paper No. w14980
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 May 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2009
Manolis Galenianos, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Nicola Persico
Royal Holloway, University of London, Health Economics, Finance and Organization, RAND Corporation and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Jun 2007
Manolis Galenianos, Nicola Persico and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Royal Holloway, University of London, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Health Economics, Finance and Organization, RAND Corporation
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illicit drugs, search

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Factions and Political Competition

NBER Working Paper No. w13008
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Nicola Persico, Jose Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, McKinsey & Company and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Economics Department
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Measuring the Gains from Labor Specialization: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jun 2018
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8085
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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duration of trials, individual production function, work scheduling

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An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in Nypd's Stop and Frisk Program

NBER Working Paper No. w18803
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2013
Decio Coviello and Nicola Persico
HEC Montreal and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

NBER Working Paper No. w22570
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Aug 2016
Laurent Bouton, Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico
Georgetown University - Department of Economics, New York University - Department of Economics - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11459
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Laurent Bouton, Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico
Georgetown University - Department of Economics, New York University - Department of Economics - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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entitlement programs, fiscal rules, Government Debt, political economy

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Decentralized Deterrence, with an Application to Labor Tax Auditing

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8901
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Edoardo Di Porto, Nicola Persico and Nicolas Sahuguet
University of Naples Federico II - CSEF - Center for Studies in Economics and Finance, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics
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audits, deterrence, tax evasion

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Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence

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Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 229-254, 2009
Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Nicola Persico
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 229-254, 2009
Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Nicola Persico
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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