Mirko Draca
Contact Details: Research Interests:
Department of Economics Labor economics
University of Warwick Applied Micro
Coventry CV4 7AL
email: m.draca "at"
warwick.ac.uk
Welcome to my web page. I'm a
Lecturer ('Assistant Professor') at Warwick University and Research Associate at the
Centre for Economic Performance, London
School of Economics. For 2012-2013 I am also a Network Fellow with the
Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.
My Phd studies were at the
UCL
Department of Economics.
Currently, I am working on two main topics.
Firstly, I am looking at the impact of defense spending on innovation in the US
using a long-run panel of listed firms. The first paper from this project
("Reagan's Innovation Dividend?") has now been posted.
Secondly, I am working on the 'political labor market', that is, the analysis of
the labor market for lobbyists and political staffers. A first paper on this
topic is available below ("Revolving Door Lobbyists").
Recent Research
"Reagan's Innovation Dividend? Technological Impacts of the 1980s US Defense
Build-Up"
February 2nd, 2012.
Primary Job Market Paper. Ongoing updates.
"Revolving Door Lobbyists" (with Jordi Blanes i Vidal & Christian Fons-Rosen).
Accepted for Publication, American Economic Review.
See an LSE video about the paper
here.
"Panic on the Streets of London" (with
Steve Machin & Robert Witt).
American Economic Review (2011), Published.
We look at the impact of police on crime in the context of the July 2005 terror
attacks.
With thanks to The Smiths.
"Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability"
(with Steve Machin & John Van Reenen).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2011), Published.
A study of some firm-level impacts of the UK minimum wage.
"Trade Induced Technical Change?"
(with Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen).
Mimeo, August 23rd 2011.
Firm-level data on 12+ countries, 4 technology measures, a new European quota
database,22 tables, 3 figures and 70 pages. You can see my blood drip off the
page. Read it and weep. See coverage at
The Economist.
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