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:
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Labor Boundaries and Skills: The Case of Lobbyists, Management Science, 67 (3): 1586-1607.
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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)
with Diego Battiston (U Edinburgh) and Shuo Liu (Peking U)
with Christopher Stanton (HBS)
with Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi), Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi) and Andrea Pignataro (ION)
Other publications:
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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
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How Talent Becomes Value: Coordination, Selection, and Design in Strategic Human Capital
Lead Author, with Russ Coff (Wisconsin) and Zijing Yuan (Bocconi)
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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:
with Akhil Ilango (IIM), Giorgio Zanarone (HEC-Lausanne) and Sergio Galletta (Sapienza UoR)
with Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD) and Sergio Prada (FVL)
with Rocco Macchiavello (LSE) & Carlos Suarez (UPF) & Mario Bernasconi (Basel)
Lead Author, with Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (HBS), Tarun Khanna (HBS), Christos A. Makridis (Arizona), Kyle Schirmann (HBS)
with Alexia Delfino (Bocconi U)
with Yuyu Chen (Peking U), Shuo Liu (Peking U), Jingchen Zhu (Peking U)
with Yuyu Chen (Peking U), Yu Wang (Peking U), Xinjue Yao (HKU), Jingchen Zhu (Peking U)
with Nel Dutt (Bocconi), Johan Rath (Bocconi), Elie Sung (HEC), Ruyue Li (BU) & Andrea Fosfuri (Bocconi)
Selected Work-in-Progress
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Early-Bird and Relational Contracts
with Francisco Brahm (LBS), Miguel Martinez (UAndes) and Mario Bernasconi (Basel)
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Task Complexity, Doctor Experience, and the Value of Supervisors: Evidence from an Emergency Department
with Victoria Sevcenko (INSEAD) and Sergio Prada (FVL)
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Social Ties, Productivity and Turnover
with Matthew Bidwell (Wharton) and Miguel Martinez (UAndes)
Old Research