Miguel Espinosa

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University, CESifo Affiliate Member & CEPR Research Affiliate.

Research Interests: Organizational and Personnel Economics & Strategic Human Capital

On this web page you will find information about my CV and my Research.

You can contact me at miguel.espinosa@unibocconi.it

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Publications:

Labor Boundaries and Skills: The Case of Lobbyists, Management Science, 67 (3): 1586-1607.

Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation, (Lead Article), Econometrica, 90 (2): 507-550.

with Santiago Caicedo (Clemson U) & Arthur Seibold (U Mannheim)

Talent Poaching and Job Rotation , Management Science, 71 (4): :2975-2992

with Diego Battiston (U Edinburgh) and Shuo Liu (Peking U)

Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations, Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy

with Christopher Stanton (HBS)

Other publications:

Reproducibility in Management Science

with Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali Ozkes, as a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. Management Science, Forthcoming.

Reproducibility in Management Science, Management Science, 70 (3), 1343-1356, 2024.

with Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali Ozkes, as a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

Working Papers:

Assessing Information: The Content of Asynchronous Communication in Hybrid Work, Forthcoming, American Economic Association, P&P. May 2026.

with Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (HBS), Tarun Khanna (HBS), Christos A. Makridis (Arizona), Kyle Schirmann (HBS).

Working Papers:

Board-CEO Matching: A Theory of Theory Alignment, Rev&Res, Organization Science

with Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi), Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi), Andrea Pignataro (ION)

Sleeping with the enemy? How constituents constrain politicians' behavior towards interest groups, Rev&Res, JLEO

with Akhil Ilango (IIM) and Giorgio Zanarone (HEC-Lausanne)

Real-time Information and Organizational Performance. Rev&Res, Strategic Management Journal

with Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD) and Sergio Prada (FVL)

Relational Collusion in the Colombian Electricity Market

with Rocco Macchiavello (LSE) & Carlos Suarez (UPF) & Mario Bernasconi (Tilburg U)

Internal Communication and Remote Work, Rev&Res, Management Science

with Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (HBS), Tarun Khanna (HBS), Christos A. Makridis (Arizona), Kyle Schirmann (HBS).

Value Dissonance at Work

with Alexia Delfino (Bocconi U)

Managing Burnout: The Critical Role of Middle Managers in Worker Retention and Performance

with Yuyu Chen (Peking U), Shuo Liu (Peking U), Jingchen Zhu (Peking U)

Who Learns What in Firms? Workers Improve Execution, Managers Improve Flow, Rev&Res, Strategic Management Journal

with Yuyu Chen (Peking U), Yu Wang (Peking U), Xinjue Yao (HKU), Jingchen Zhu (Peking U)

Lobbying around the Green Deal: Contracting Advantages for Carbon-Intensive Firms

with Nel Dutt (Bocconi), Johan Rath (Bocconi), Elie Sung (HEC), Ruyue Li (BU) & Andrea Fosfuri (Bocconi)

Selected Work-in-Progress

Early-Bird and Relational Contracts

with Miguel Martinez and Mario Bernasconi

Task Complexity, Doctor Experience, and the Value of Supervisors: Evidence from an Emergency Department

with Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko (INSEAD) and Sergio Prada (FVL)

Old Research