Renjie Bao [read more]

Hello! Welcome to my webpage.

I am an Econ Ph.D. student at Princeton.


Email   renjie.bao@princeton.edu

Interests    IO, Spatial Economics

CV    click for a pdf (11/2022)

External link Google Scholar, Twitter

Working Papers

Killer Innovation: The Macroeconomic Implications of Strategic Investment that Affects Market Structure

with Jan Eeckhout 

Draft:  Manuscript (03/2023)

Are Managers Paid for Market Power?

with Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout 

Draft: Manuscript (12/2022), NBER Working Paper (04/2022); VoxEU article

Slides: for a 30 min and for a 90 min talk

Search with Interdependent Values

with Sanxi Li and Jun Yu

Draft: Manuscript (06/2022)

Slides: for a 30 min talk


Publications

Can Specialization be Optimal when Tasks are Complementary?

with Sanxi Li and Jun Yu 

Published in Games and Economic Behavior, 2020 

Draft: Manuscript, Link to Publication

In Chinese

Big Data, Personal Information Protection, and Price Discrimination

with Sanxi Li and Yufan Wu

Published in Economic Research Journal, 2021

Draft: Summary (English), Manuscript (Chinese), Link to Publication

Sorting Menus, Product Quality, and Platform Ecosystems

with Xiaolu Liu

Published in Economic Research Journal, 2020

Draft: Summary (English), Manuscript (Chinese), Link to Publication