Jan Zabojnik Associate Professor of Economics (on leave)
	Department of Economics Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada  E-mail: zabojnik at econ dot queensu dot ca Phone: (613) 533-2275     Fax: (613) 533-6668
	Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

RESEARCH AREAS

Applied Microeconomic Theory; Economics of Organizations; Industrial Organization

TEACHING

	ECON 999 - Ph.D. Thesis seminar
	ECON 913 - Incentives in Organizations, Contract Theory, and Corporate Finance
	ECON 360 - Labour Economics

EDUCATION

	Ph.D. Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1997
	B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1985

PRIOR ACADEMIC POSITIONS

	2006 - present	Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
	1999 - 2006	Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
	1997 - 2001	Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS

	"Disobedience and Authority" (with Anthony Marino and John Matsusaka), Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (forthcoming)
	"Costly External Finance and Investment Efficiency in a Market Equilibrium Model," Economic Inquiry, October 2009
	"Work-Related Perks, Agency Problems, and Optimal Incentive Contracts" (with Anthony Marino), RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2008
	"A Rent Extraction View of Employee Discounts and Benefits" (with Anthony Marino), Journal of Labor Economics, July 2008
	"Merger, Ease of Entry, and Entry Deterrence in a Dynamic Model" (with Anthony Marino), Journal of Industrial Economics, September 2006
	"Trust, Social Capital, and Economic Development" (with Patrick Francois), Journal of the European Economic Association, March 2005
	"The Effects of Learning-by-Doing on Product Innovation by a Durable Good Monopolist" (with Edward Kutsoati), International Journal of Industrial Organization, February 2005
	"Internal Competition for Corporate Resources and Incentives in Teams" (with Anthony Marino), RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2004
	"CEO Pay and Appointments: A Market Based Explanation for Recent Trends" (with Kevin J. Murphy), American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), May 2004
	"A Model of Rational Bias in Self-Assessments," Economic Theory, February 2004
	"A Theory of Trade Secrets in Firms," International Economic Review, August 2002
	"Centralized and Decentralized Decision-Making in Organizations," Journal of Labor Economics, January 2002 (lead article)
	"Corporate Tournaments, Human Capital Acquisition, and the Firm Size-Wage Relation" (with Dan Bernhardt), Review of Economic Studies, July 2001
	"On the Efficiency of Markets for Managers," Economic Theory, November 2001
	"Sales Maximization and Specific Human Capital," RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 1998
	"Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Production Uncertainty," Economics Letters, December 1996

WORKING PAPERS AND PAPERS UNDER SUBMISSION

	"Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs" (with Kevin J. Murphy)
	"Promotion Tournaments in Market Equilibrium"
	"Welfare-harming Competitive Health Insurance when Health Care is Uncompetitive" (with Dan Bernhardt)

WORK IN PROGRESS

	"Resistance to Change in Organizations" (with Sumon Majumdar)
	"Optimal Contracts for Risk-seeking Agents"