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Ethnicity
  
Caucasian

Role
  
Professor


Name
  
Glenn MacDonald

Years active
  
1979 - Present

Awards
  
Beta Gamma Sigma

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Full Name
  
Glenn M. MacDonald

Born
  
August 27, 1952 (age 71) (
1952-08-27
)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nationality
  
United States of America

Citizenship
  
United States of America

Education
  
Ph.D. (Economics) 1979, U of R M.A. (Economics) 1978, U of R Honors B.A. (Economics and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude) 1975, York University

Occupation
  
Professor, Economist, Consultant

Organization
  
Washington University in St. Louis

Books
  
The Cyclical Behavior of Job Creation and Job Destruction: A Sectoral Model

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Alma mater
  
University of Rochester

Meet the professor glenn macdonald


Glenn MacDonald is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, and a professor of economics in the department of economics in the school's College of Arts and Sciences. He also serves as the director of the Center for Research in Economics and Strategy at Olin.

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He began his tenure at Washington University in 2001. He was also a Senior Associate Dean of the Olin Business School (at that time named the Olin School of Business) from 2005 through 2007.

Prior to moving to St. Louis to work at Washington University in St. Louis, Glenn MacDonald served as a Professor and Area Coordinator for Economics and Management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester located in Rochester, New York from 1994 until 2001. Also while working at the University of Rochester, Glenn MacDonald worked as a professor of economics in the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration from 1992 until 2001. During this period he was also a Professor of Organizations and Markets (1992-1994). Beginning in 1985 he served as a Senior Research Associate at the Rochester Center for Economic Research.

Before his time in Rochester, New York working for the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration Glenn MacDonald held a number of positions at the University of Western Ontario. Glenn MacDonald served as a lecturer during 1978 and 1979, as an assistant professor from 1979 until 1982, and associate professor from 1982 until 1984, and a full professor of economics from 1984 until 1992 when he moved to Rochester, New York.

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Recent significant works

  • "Do new entrants sustain, destroy or create guaranteed profitability?" Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming); with Michael Ryall
  • "The Economics of Super Managers," Review of Financial Studies (2011); with Nina Baranchuk and Jun Yang
  • "The Life Cycle of the Size Distribution of Firms," Review of Economic Dynamics (2009); with Emin Dinlersoz
  • "Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economi Development," Review of Economic Studies (2009); with Rui Castro and Gian Luca Clementi
  • "Adverse Specialization" Journal of Political Economy (August, 2001), 864-899; with Leslie Marx.
  • Early significant works

  • "Person-Specific Information in the Labor Market", The Journal of Political Economy, Jun., 1980.
  • "The Impact of Schooling on Wages", Econometrica, Sep., 1981.
  • "Information in Production", Econometrica, Sep.,1982.
  • "A Market Equilibrium Theory of Job Assignment and Sequential Accumulation of Information", The American Economic Review, Dec., 1982.
  • "The Economics of Rising Stars", The American Economic Review, Mar., 1988.
  • "Competitive Diffusion", The Journal of Political Economy, Feb., 1994; with Boyan Jovanovic.
  • "The Life Cycle of a Competitive Industry", The Journal of Political Economy, Apr., 1994; with Boyan Jovanovic.
  • "When is Advertising a Signal of Product Quality?", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Fall 1994; with Ignatius Horstmann.
  • Recent Interests

    MacDonald was an avid long-distance runner for many years, completing the Go St. Louis Marathon in 2008.

    References

    Glenn MacDonald Wikipedia