Ricard
Gil

Professor of Strategic Management

• Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago
• M.A. Economics, University of Chicago
• B.A. Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Ricard Gil is a Professor in the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School.

Ricard received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from The University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Prior to joining IESE, Ricard has held positions at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada), the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Business School, and the University of California in Santa Cruz, as well as at the London School of Economics and the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Ricard’s research specializes in organizational economics with a focus on strategy and industrial organization. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of European Economic Association, American Economic Journal, Management Science, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Marketing Science, among others.

Areas of interest.

• Economics of Strategy
• Organizational Economics
• Applied Microeconomics

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

GIL, R., ARGYRES, N., ZANARONE, G. (2024). Does supply concentration encourage cooperation? Evidence from airlines. Management Science. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2022.03455. (Online first) GIL, R., XING, J. (2024). Political backlash and consumer boycotts. Impact of the NFB relocation on movie demand in Quebec. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE, 57 (3), 933-960. doi:10.1111/caje.12730. GALDON-SANCHEZ, J., GIL, R., HOLUB, F., URIZ-UHARTE, G. (2023). Social benefits and private costs of driving restriction policies. The Impact of Madrid central on congestion, pollution and consumer spending. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21 (3), 1227-1267. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvac064. GIL, R., HO, C.-Y., XU, L., ZHOU, Y. (2023). Vertical Integration and market foreclosure in media markets. Evidence from the Chinese motion picture industry. The Journal of Law and Economics. (Forthcoming) GIL, R., MARION, J. (2022). Why did firms practice segregation? Evidence from movie theaters during Jim Crow. The Journal of Law and Economics, 65 (4). doi:10.1086/720904. GIL, R., KIM, M., ZANARONE, G. (2022). Relationships under Stress: Relational Outsourcing in the US Airline Industry After the 2008 Financial Crisis. Management Science, 68 (2), 809-1589, iv-v. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2021.3970. GIL, R., KIM, M. (2021). Does competition increase quality? Evidence from the US Airline industry. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 77, Article 102742. doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2021.102742. WEINBERG, C., OTTEN, C., ORBACH, B., MCKENZIE, J., GIL, R., CHISHOLM, D., BASUROY, S. (2021). Technological change and managerial challenges in the movie theater industry. Journal of Cultural Economics, 45 (4), 239-262. doi:10.1007/s10824-019-09374-z. BARRON, D., GIBBONS, R., GIL, R., MURPHY, K. (2020). Relational adaptation under reel authority. Management Science, 66 (5), 1783-2290, iii-iv. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2019.3292. GIL, R., KORKMAZ, E., SAHIN, O. (2020). Can free-shipping hurt online retailers? Evidence from online grocery shopping. QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 18 (3), 305-342.

Working Papers

GIL, R. (2011). Vertical integration and product market competition: Evidence from the Spanish local TV industry (DI-893-E). GIL, R. (2011). Does regulation drive market competition? Evidence from the Spanish local TV industry (DI-895-E). GIL, R., RIERA-CRICHTON, D. (2011). Price discrimination and competition in two-sided markets: Evidence from the Spanish local TV industry (DI-894-E). BAYO, A., GALDÓN, J. E., GIL, R. (2009). The determinants of changes in the organization of production: Evidence from Spanish plant-level data (DI-783-E). GIL, R. (2006). The economics of IPR protection policies (DI-622-E).

Book Chapters

GIL, R. (2021). La política de competencia y antimonopolio en el ámbito de la cultura en España. En Ateca Amestoy, Victoria; Ganuza, Juan-José & Prieto Sacristán, Jesús (Eds.), Economía y cultura. Una mirada hacia el futuro (pp. 263-293). Madrid: Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros - FUNCAS. GIL, R., ZANARONE, G. (2018). Contracting in innovative industries. In Ménard, Claude & Shirley, Mary M. (Eds.), A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics (pp. 62-71). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. BAKER, G. P., GIL, R. (2012). Clinical papers in organizational economics. In Gibbons, Robert & Roberts, John (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Economics (pp. 193–212). Oxford: Princeton University Press.