Ricard Gil

Ricard Gil received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2004 and a BA in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, in 1999. His training also includes a post-doc in organizational economics at Harvard Business School, and visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the management department of the London School of Economics.

He has held other visiting and teaching positions at other universities such as Universidad de Navarra and IESE in Spain, the University of Tokyo and Hitotsubashi University in Japan, or Yonsei University in South Korea. Prior to joining Smith in 2018, Ricard was an economics professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Santa Cruz from 2004 to 2011, and a professor of economics and strategy at the Carey Business School of the Johns Hopkins University from 2011 to 2018.

Ricard’s research specializes in organizational economics with a focus on industrial organization, strategy and applied microeconomics. Some of his research interests are the effect of competition on outcomes and firm boundaries as well as the impact firm organization on transaction performance, in various contexts such as media industries, online markets, and transportation. Ricard's research has appeared in top economics and business journals such as American Economic Journal, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Marketing Science and Management Science, among others.

Areas of Interest:

• Competitive Strategy, Human Resource Management, and Economics for Decision Making

Honors

• 2015 – CEPR-Deutsche Bahn Prize for Outstanding Research in Organisation and Management.
• 2014 – Kenichi Miyazawa Prize by the Japan Fair Trade Commission.
• 2011, 2012 - Finalist to Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization.
• 2010, 2012, 2014 - NET Institute Summer Research Grant.
• 2007 - Young Economist Essays Award, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics.
• 2003-04 - Henry Morgenthau Jr. Memorial Fund Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago.

** Teaching** Undergraduate

• UCSC: Intermediate Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics

Graduate

• UCSC: Advanced Applied Microeconomics (Ph.D.)
• Universidad de Navarra: Economics of Information (Master)
• MIT Sloan: Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (MBA),
• LSE: Design and Management of Organizations (MSc Management)
• JHU CBS: Strategic Management, Economics for Decision Making, Strategic Human Capital, Competitive Strategy (MBA)
• Queen’s U SSB: Economics and Industry Analysis (GDB), Managerial Economics and Industry Analysis (Executive MBA)

*Short-term Teaching, Visiting and Affiliate Positions *

• 2017 - Short-Term visit Strategic Management Department IESE, Universidad de Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
• 2014-17 - Contributor to (high impact) blog on the Spanish Economy (www.nadaesgratis.es)
• 2016 - Visiting Associate Professor Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2007-18 - Yonsei International Summer School, Seoul, South Korea
• 2011 - ESNIE, Corsica, France
• 2010 - IAE, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
• 2009 - Department of Finance, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• 2008 - Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
• 2005 - PPSR Center, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
• 2005 - Economics Department, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Graduate Student Supervision

• Huafang Liu, 2019

Graduate Student Examination - External Referee

• Taylor Currie, 2019
• Jenny Watt, 2019
  
• Zhuang Liu, 2019