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Overview

Andrea Prat is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work focuses primarily on areas within Business, Management, and Accounting, with significant contributions in Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research topics span several interconnected domains including:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Digital Platforms and Economics

Recent publications by Andrea Prat demonstrate a breadth of interest in organizational and political-economic subjects. Selected papers include:

  • "Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics," 2022, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Political Power and Market Power," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News," 2024, American Economic Review
  • "Do Women Respond Less to Performance Pay? Building Evidence from Multiple Experiments," 2021, American Economic Review Insights
  • "Competing Models," 2022, The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Andrea Prat frequently publishes in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Harvard Dataverse, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Collaboration forms a notable part of their work, with frequent coauthors including Oriana Bandiera, Charles Angelucci, Raffaella Sadun, Bo Cowgill, and Tommaso Valletti. The number of joint publications highlights ongoing professional relationships and interdisciplinary research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

    Timothy Besley;Andrea Prat

  • The wrong kind of transparency

    Andrea Prat

  • The Political Economy of Mass Media

    Andrea Prat;David Strömberg

  • Active and passive waste in government spending: evidence from a policy experiment

    Oriana Bandiera;Andrea Prat;Tommaso Valletti

  • Transparency and deliberation within the FOMC: a computational linguistics approach

    Stephen Eliot Hansen;Michael McMahon;Andrea Prat

  • Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

    Claudine Madras Gartenberg;Andrea Prat;George Serafeim

  • Campaign Advertising and Voter Welfare

    Andrea Prat

  • CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

    Oriana Bandiera;Stephen Hansen;Andrea Prat;Raffaella Sadun

  • Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

    Oriana Bandiera;Luigi Guiso;Andrea Prat;Raffaella Sadun

  • Language and the Theory of the Firm

    Jacques Crémer;Luis Garicano;Andrea Prat

  • Institutional Trade Persistence and Long-Term Equity Returns

    Amil Dasgupta;Andrea Prat;Michela Verardo

  • Campaign Spending with Office-Seeking Politicians, Rational Voters, and Multiple Lobbies

    Andrea Prat;Andrea Prat

  • The price impact of institutional herding

    Amil Dasgupta;Andrea Prat;Michela Verardo

  • Risk taking and optimal contracts for money managers

    Frédéric Palomino;Andrea Prat

  • Commercial Television and Voter Information

    Andrea Prat;David Strömberg

  • Games played through agents

    Andrea Prat;and Aldo Rustichini

  • Information aggregation in financial markets with career concerns

    Amil Dasgupta;Andrea Prat

  • Should a team be homogeneous

    Andrea Prat;Andrea Prat;Andrea Prat

  • The More Closely we are Watched, the Better we Behave?

    Andrea Prat

  • The Value of Public Information in Monopoly

    Marco Ottaviani;Andrea Prat

  • Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

    Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley;Andrea Prat

Frequent Co-Authors

Oriana Bandiera
Oriana Bandiera London School of Economics and Political Science
Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science
Luigi Guiso
Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Luis Garicano
Luis Garicano London School of Economics and Political Science
Tommaso M. Valletti
Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London
Aldo Rustichini
Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Christopher J. Mayer
Christopher J. Mayer Columbia University
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Laura Veldkamp
Laura Veldkamp Columbia University

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