Robert A. Miller

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Professor of Economics and Strategy

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Microeconomics and strategy.

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.comlabgames.com/ramiller/

Published Papers: 

• Has Moral Hazard Become a More Important Factor in Managerial Compensation?
  The American Economic Review, forthcoming.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle)
  
  
• Insider Information and Performance Pay
  CESifo Economic Studies, forthcoming.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle)
  
  
• Estimating the Gains from Trade in Limit Order Markets
  Journal of Finance, 2006.
  (With: Burton Hollifield, Patrik Sandas, Joshua Slive)
  
  
• Empirical Analysis of Limit Order Markets
  Review of Economic Studies, October 2004.
  (With: P. Sandas, Burton Hollifield)
  
  
• Managerial Compensation and the Cost of Moral Hazard
  International Economic Review 41, 2000; 669-719.
  (With: M. Margiotta)
  
  
• The Effect of Work Experience on Female Wages and Labor Supply
  The Review of Economic Studies 65, January 1998; 45-85.
  (With: S. Altug)
  
  
• Human Capital Development and Welfare Participation
  Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 46, June 1997; 1-45.
  (With: S. Sanders)
  
  
• A Microeconomic Comparison of Household Behavior Between Countries
  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 15, April 1997; 237-254.
  (With: Holger Sieg)
  
  
• Plant Objectives as Revealed by Shop Floor Activities
  Journal of Operations Management 12, June 1995; 273-296.
  (With: P. Ramnath)
  
  
• Conditional Choice Probabilities and the Estimation of Dynamic Models
  The Review of Economic Studies 60, July 1993; 497-531.
  (With: V. Hotz)
  
  
• Household Choices in Equilibrium
  Econometrica 58, May 1990; 543-570.
  (With: S. Altug)
  
  
• Innovation and Reputation
  Journal of Political Economy 96, August 1988; 741-765.
  
  
• An Empirical Analysis of Life Cycle Fertility and Female Labor Supply
  Econometrica 56, January 1988; 91-119.
  (With: V. Hotz)
  
  
• Job Matching and Occupational Choice
  Journal of Political Economy 92, December 1984; 1086-1120.
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Identifying and Testing Models of Managerial Compensation
  September, 2009.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle)
  
  
• Are There Glass Ceilings for Female Executives?
  June, 2009.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan)
  
  
• Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Market
  July, 2008.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan)
  
  
• Life-cycle Fertility Behavior and Human Capital Accumulations
  August, 2006.
  (With: George-Levi Gayle)
  
  

Publications: 

• Strategic Play, Stanford University Press, (January, 2008).
  (With: Vesna Prasnikar)
  
  
• "Estimating Models of Dynamic Optimization with Microeconomic Data"
  in M. Pesaran and P. Schmidt (ed.) Handbook of Applied Econometrics, 246-299, Basil Blackwell, (January, 1997).
  
  
• "New Product Pricing: The Marketing of Innovations"
  in S. Dowrick (ed.) Economic Approaches to Innovation, 98-119, Edward Elgar, (January, 1995).
  
  

Awards:

• Undergraduate Economics Teaching Award, GSIA - 1992

Editorial Boards:

• European Economic Review (Associate Editor), 2002-2008

Courses Taught:

• Strategic Corporate Management (45-970)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: B)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: E)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: N)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: B)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: E)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: N)
  
  
• Auctions and Markets (73-440)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2008, Spring (Section: A)