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Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Professor of Weinberg Department of Economics (courtesy)

Portrait of Nicola Persico, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Dr. Persico is currently the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He received his PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996, and spent one year on the faculty at UCLA prior to joining Penn in 1997, where he was granted tenure. He moved to NYU in 2006 as Professor of Economics, and Professor of Law and Society. Dr. Persico joined, Kellogg in 2011. Dr. Persico has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several National Science Foundation Grants, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow from 2002-2004. He served on the editorial board of the International Economic Review, has been associate editor of Econometrica, of The American Economic Review, and of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and co-editor of Theoretical Economics and of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He is currently a co-editor of the RAND Journal of Economics. Dr. Persico has published in the areas of political economy, law and economics, and labor economics.

About Nicola
Research interests
  • Contract Theory
  • Economics of Organizations
  • Political Economy/Design
  • Labor Economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Game Theory
Teaching interests
  • Political Economy
  • Business Strategy
  • PhD, 1996, Economics, Northwestern University
    PhD, 1995, Mathematical Economics, Trieste, Italy
    Laurea, 1991, Economics, Università Bocconi, Magna cum Laude
  • Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2011-present
    Professor (courtesy), Economics, Northwestern University, 2011-present
    Research Associate, NBER, 2006-present
    Professor, Economics and Law and Society, New York University, 2006-2011
    Associate Professor, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2006
    Visiting Fellow, Economics, Princeton University, 2001
    Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2001
    Assistant Professor, Economics, UCLA, 1996-1997
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society
    Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, 2017-18
  • Editor, RAND Journal of Economics, 2020-2023
    Editorial Board, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2017-2020
    Co-Editor, Theoretical Economics, 2011-2015
    Board of Editors, American Economic Review, 2009-2011
    Associate Editor, Econometrica, 2009-2011
    Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009-2011
    Editorial Board, International Economic Review, 2001-2006