Guido Friebel

 

 

German citizen, born 8 March 1965.

 

Current position: maître de conferences, EHESS Toulouse.

 

Office Address                                                                        Phone, Fax, e-mail

EHESS, IDEI, Université de Toulouse 1                         +33.5.61 12 86 05

Manufacture des Tabacs                                                           +33.5.61 12 85 90 (Sec.)

21 allée de Brienne                                                        +33.5.61 12 86 37 (Fax)

France – 31000 Toulouse                                               friebel@cict.fr  

 

 

Fields of Research

 

          Applied contract theory: organizations and personnel economics

 

          IO and regulation: in particular of railroads

 

          Population economics: migration and family

 

          Transition and institutional economics

 

Work Experience

 

          Deputy Director of Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (2001/2002)

 

          Assistant Professor, SITE (1997-2001)

 

          Post-doc. at IDEI, Toulouse (fall 1996 to fall 1997)

 

          Consultant with Treuhandanstalt, Moscow (June 1992 to March 1993)

 

          Mandatory military service (summer 1984 to fall 1985)

 

          From 1985 to 1990: student trainee (40 weeks) with Deichmann Schuhe (Europe’s largest shoe retailer)

 

Education

 

          Ph.D. in Economics, Free University of Brussels (June 1996)

 

          Diplom-Volkswirt (M.A., Economics), Bielefeld (June 1992)

 

Teaching

 

          Labor economics, Master (DEA and DEEQA) programme at University of Toulouse (annual)

 

          Transition, Master of Science programme, SSE (from 1997 to 2002)

 

          Industrial Organization: second-year Ph.D. course, Stockholm graduate programme (from 1997 to 2002)

 

          Executive teaching experience in East Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Senegal

 

Publications

 

          “Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-financed Migration” (co-author Sergei Guriev), forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association

 

          “Attaching Workers Through In-kind Payments: Theory and Evidence from Russia” (co-author Sergei Guriev), The World Bank Economic Review, 2005

 

          “A Note on CEO Compensation, Elimination Tournaments and Bankruptcy Risk” (co-author Alexandr Matros), Economics of Governance 6 (2), 2004, 105-11

 

          “A Positive Theory of Give-away Privatization” (co-author Olivier Debande), International Journal of Industrial Organization 22, 2004, 1309-25

 

          “Abuse of Authority and Hierarchical Communication”, (co-author Michael Raith), RAND Journal of Economics 35, 2004, 224-44

 

          “Career Concerns in Teams” (co-authors Emmanuelle Auriol, Lambros Pechlivanos), Journal of Labor Economics 20, 2002, 289-307

 

          “Bureaucracies in the Russian Voucher Privatisation”, The Economics of Transition 8, 2000, 37-57

 

          “Organisational Issues of Trade and Services Privatisation in Russia”, Economic Systems 19, 1995, 25-58

 

Papers under revision

 

          “Fighting for Talent: Risk-shifting, Corporate Volatility, and Organizational Change” (co-author Mariassunta Giannetti), resubmitted a new draft to Journal of the European Economic Association, based on CEPR Discussion Paper #3610

 

          “Parental Leave: A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish Daddy-Month Reform” (co-authors John Ekberg, Rickard Ericksson), to be revised and resubmitted to Journal of the European Economic Association

 

          “Railroad (De)Regulation – A European Efficiency Comparison” (co-authors Marc Ivaldi, Catherine Vibes), second round of revisions at Economica, based on CEPR Discussion Paper #4319

 

          “The Functioning of Inter-modal Competition in the Transportation Market: Evidence from the Entry of Low-cost Airlines in Germany” (co-author Marko Niffka), to be revised and resubmitted to Journal of Transportation Economics and Policy

 

Submitted papers and work in progress

 

          “Earnings Manipulation and Incentives in Firms” (co-author Sergei Guriev), submitted to Journal of Finance, based on CEPR DP # 4861

 

          “Railroad Restructuring in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: One Solution for All Problems?” (co-authors Elizaveta Cheviakhova, Sergei Guriev, Russell Pittman, Anna Tomová), submitted to Transport Reviews

 

          “Vertical Integration, Access Regulation and the Costs of Public Funds (With Implications for Railroad Reforms)” (co-author Aldo Gonzalez), submitted to Journal of Comparative Economics

 

          “Incentives, Communication and Coordination: A Theory of the Firm”, (co-author Michael Raith)

 

          “Club-in-the-club: Undermining Veto Power” (co-authors Erik Berglöf, Mike Burkart, Elena Paltseva)

 

          “Trust in an Economy without Legal Enforcement” (co-author Ailsa Röell)

 

          “Self-motivated Agents and the Adverse Effects of Incentive Provision in Teams” (co-author Wendelin Schnedler)

 

          “The Labor Effects of Deregulation Revisited: Evidence from US Class 1 Railroads, 1981 to 2001”, (co-authors Gerard McCullough and Laura Padilla)

 

          “Sorting of Students with Rank-order Information”, (co-author Vera Zaporozhets)

 

          “Insider Privatization and Careers – A Clinical Study of a Russian Firm in Transition” (co-author Elena Panova)

 

Further Publications

 

          Book review of “Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter” (D. Marin and M. Schnitzer), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159, 2003, pp. 599-600.

 

          Book review of “Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union: A Legacy of Discrimination” (K. Katz), The Economics of Transition 11, 2003, pp. 199-200.

 

          Book review of “Governance, Decentralization and Reform in China, India and Russia” (J.-J. Dethier), Economic Systems 25, 2001, pp. 403-4.

 

          Book review of “Privatizing Russia” (M. Boycko, A. Shleifer, R. Vishny), Economic Systems 20, 1996.

 

          “Team Spirit”, European Economic Perspectives #25, 2000, pp. 5-6 (based on the paper with E. Auriol and L. Pechlivanos).

 

          “Labour Market Reform” in E. Berglöf and R. Vaitilingam (ed.), Stuck in Transit: Rethinking Russian Economic Reform, 2000, pp. 37-41 CEPR, London.

 

          “Human Resource Policies in Russian Firms” (in Russian, co-authors Irina Denisova and Elena Sadovnikova) Tchelovyek i Trud, Nov. 1999, pp. 19-24.

 

          “The Russian Labour Market: Urgent Needs for Reforms”, (co-authors Irina Denisova and Elena Sadovnikova), Russian Economic Trends, May 1998.

 


Academic Activities

 

          Responsible researcher and member of the Scientific Committee of the Euroconferences “The Economics of Personnel and Organizations”, Stockholm May 2002, Toulouse May 2003, joint with CEPR

 

          Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Science Foundation Conference “Transition meets Development”, Stockholm, December 2003, joint with CEPR

 

          Associate Editor of Economic Systems (since 2003)

 

          Book Review Editor of the Economics of Transition (since 2004)

 

          Member of the Programme Committee, 2002, 2001 and 1999 Annual EEA Meetings

 

          Member of the Scientific Committee “Third Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment”, Stockholm, October 2005

 

          Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference “The Organization and Effectiveness of Research and Higher Education”, Toulouse January 2004

 

          Member of the Scientific Committee of “First Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment”, Toulouse, November 2003,

 

          Member of the Ph.D. jury of Ariane Tichit, Clermont-Ferrand (spring 2000), Kenneth Snellman, Abo University, Finland, Dario Maldonado, Elena Panova, Ahmed Tritah, Lorenzo Rocco, Toulouse

 

          PhD advisor of Darwin Cortes (with Jacques Crémer), Laura Padilla, Delphine Prady, Juan-Migel Gallego

 

Referee

 

Academy of Management Review, Economic Journal, Economic Systems, Economic Theory, Economica, Economics of Transition, European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Revue Francaise d’Economie, RAND Journal, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics

 

Awards

 

          First Place Medal (10,000 USD) for Outstanding Research on Conflict, Human Security, and Migration, joint with Sergei Guriev (Feb. 2005)

 

          Gold research medal (10,000 USD) of the Global Development Network, Annual Conference in Tokyo; joint with Sergei Guriev (Dec. 2000)

 

Policy Advice

 

          Team leader for labour market analysis at the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP), Moscow (1997-2000)

 

          Part-time consultant for EU (TACIS); human resource management training (1995-1996) for banks in Belarus and Kazakhstan)

 

          IDEI: project work with Deutsche Bahn, European Patent Office

 

Affiliations and Memberships

 

          Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), research affiliate

 

          Fellow of the William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor

 

          Fellow of IZA, Bonn

                       

Media appearance

 

          New York Times October 10, 2002, “Even Without Law, Contracts Can Be Enforced”, featured three articles (Williamson, Greif, Friebel and Guriev on Illegal Migration)

 

          HR, State Radio of Hesse, Germany, September 2003: interview on labor effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

 

          Occasional columns in Expansion, french business and economics magazine

 

Languages

 

          native German

 

          fluent English

 

          fluent French

 

          basic knowledge of Russian and Swedish