Philipp Kircher

People/Faculty
Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics
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Contact

133 Statler Dr
256 Ives Hall Faculty Wing
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Tel
+1 (607) 2552068
Websites
Personal Website
Labor Dynamics Institute
Overview

Philipp Kircher is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations in the Department of Economics who works mostly on how firms and workers meet and stay together: How wages attract workers of different talent, how this affects the productivity of firms with different production technologies, and how technological change and automation affect this. Since the meeting process in the labor market is somewhat similar to the meeting process underlying the spread of diseases, he has also worked on the spread of infectious diseases, how individuals protect themselves, and how this affects policy efficacy. He has explored this in the context of HIV/AIDS and of Covid-19.

In his research he uses a mixture of theoretical modelling, computational simulations, and statistical methods. His work has been published in the major journals of economics such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He also acted as managing editor and chairman of the latter.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , , & . . An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Econometrica, 87(4), 1081-1113.
  • , , & . . Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice. Review of Economic Studies , 86(4), 1411-1447.
  • , & . . Assortative Matching with Large Firms. Econometrica, 86(1), 85-132.
  • , , & . . Matching, Sorting and the Distributional Impact of International Trade. Journal of Political Economy, 124(1), 224-264.
  • , , , & . . The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi. American Economic Review, 107(5), 158–162.
  • , & . . Efficient Competition through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions. Econometrica, 83(5), 1849-1875.
  • , & . . Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market. American Economic Review, 105(10), 3030-3060.
  • , , & . . The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility. Review of Economic Studies, 82(2), 659-692.
  • , & . . On the Game-theoretic Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium. International Economic Review, 53, 1-21.
  • , & . . Identifying Sorting – In Theory. Review of Economic Studies, 78, 872-906.
  • , , & . . Market Power and Efficiency in a Search Model. International Economic Review, 52, 85-104.
  • , & . . Sorting and Decentralized Price Competition. Econometrica, 78, 539–574.
  • , & . . Sorting vs Screening – Search Frictions and Competing Mechanisms. Journal of Economic Theory, 145, 1354-1385.
  • , & . . Directed Search with Multiple Job Applications. Journal of Economic Theory, 114, 445-471.
  • . . Efficiency of Simultaneous Search. Journal of Political Economy, 117, 861- 913.
  • , & . . A Model of Money with Multilateral Matching. Journal of Monetary Economics, 55, 1054-1066.
  • , & . . Strategic Firms and Endogenous Consumer Emulation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, 621-661.
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