Bo Cowgill
Publications
Working Papers
Teaching
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Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
Email:
bo@bocowgill.org
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall
New York, NY 10027
Working Papers
Matchmaking Principals: Theory and Evidence from Internal Labor Markets
Summary HBR article:
How to Design an Internal Talent Marketplace
. Also, see our
related paper
about a new mechanism. With
Jonathan Davis
,
Pablo Montagnes
and
Patryk Perkowski
.
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
NBER WP
#29460
. Summaries:
NBER Digest
,
WEF
, and
VoxEU
. With
Amanda Agan
and
Laura Gee
. Related:
Salary History Bans and Unravelling
.
Political Power and Market Power
Summaries/discussion:
VoxEU/CEPR
and
Equitable Growth
. With
Andrea Prat
and
Tommaso Valletti
.
Bias and Productivity in Humans and Algorithms
Discussion:
New York Times
,
Forbes
,
Harvard Business Review
.
Stock Compensation and Employee Attention
With
Eric Zitzewitz
.
Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
With
Patryk Perkowski
.
Legalizing Entrepreneurship
NBER WP
#30624
. With
Dany Bahar
and
Jorge Guzman
. Summary/discussion at
World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement
.
Principals Matching Agents: Applications to Organizations and Auctions
With
Jonathan Davis
and
Pablo Montagnes
.
We propose a mechanism for principals to match agents for an objective (e.g., team formation for organizations) where agent preferences matter.
Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics
Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
. 2020 (abstract). With
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua
,
Samuel Deng
,
Daniel Hsu
,
Nakul Verma
and
Augustin Chaintreau
.
Older Working Papers
The Impact of Algorithms on Judicial Discretion: Evidence from Regression Discontinuities
Solo-authored.
Algorithmic Bias: A Counterfactual Perspective
With
Catherine Tucker
Algorithmic Fairness and Economics
Earlier
version containing additional lit review
. With
Catherine Tucker
.
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows
With
Eric Zitzewitz
.
Competition and Productivity in Employee Promotion Contests
Solo-authored.
Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation
With
Eric Zitzewitz
.
"The US-Canada Border Effect: Evidence from Online Commerce"
Previously titled
"The US/Canada Border Effect in Online Commerce"
Based on earlier draft,
"Gravity and Borders in Online Commerce"
.
With
Cosmina Dorobantu
.
"Worldwide Gravity in Online Commerce"
Based on earlier draft,
Gravity and Borders in Online Commerce
With
Cosmina Dorobantu
.