Subordinates in Charge: Does Delegation Improve Bank Supervision?
Draft, June 2026
Wouter Dessein, Thomas Lambert and Wolf Wagner
Research
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Working Papers
Nimble Banks.
Draft, June 2026
Wouter Dessein, Balint Horvath, Wolf Wagner and Wei Zhai
La Cordata: Loyalty in Political Tournaments.
Journal of the European Economic Association, R&R, August 2025
Wouter Dessein and Luis Garicano
Customer Capital and Dynamic Barriers to Entry.
Management Science, R&R, July 2025
Wouter Dessein, Jin Li and Chang Sun
Journal Articles
Test-Optional Admissions
American Economic Review, September 2025
Wouter Dessein, Alex Frankel and Navin Kartik
The Test-Optional Puzzle
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025
Wouter Dessein, Alex Frankel, and Navin Kartik
Managing with Style? Micro-Evidence on the Allocation of Managerial Attention
Management Science, November 2022
Desmond Lo, Francisco Brahm, Wouter Dessein and Chieko Minami
Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-Evidence
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2022
Wouter Dessein, Desmond Lo, and Chieko Minami
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership and Firm Dynamics
Journal of Political Economy, June 2022
Wouter Dessein and Andrea Prat
Organizations with Power-Hungry Agents
Journal of Law and Economics, February 2022
Wouter Dessein and Richard Holden
Managerial Style and Attention
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2021
Wouter Dessein and Tano Santos
Delegation and Performance Pay: Evidence from Industrial Sales Force
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, September 2016
Desmond Lo, Wouter Dessein, Mrinal Ghosh, and Francine Lafontaine
Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus
American Economic Review, June 2016
Wouter Dessein, Andrea Galeotti, and Tano Santos
Attention in Organizations
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks, January 2016
Wouter Dessein and Andrea Prat
Organizing to Adapt and Compete
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2015
Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, and Niko Matouschek
Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, May 2014
Wouter Dessein
Pandering to Persuade
American Economic Review, February 2013
Wouter Dessein, Yeon-Koo Che, and Navin Kartik
Organizing for Synergies
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2010
Wouter Dessein, Luis Garicano, and Robert Gertner
Centralization versus Decentralization: An Application to Price Setting by a Multi-Market Firm
Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2008
Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, and Niko Matouschek
When Does Coordination Require Centralization?
American Economic Review, March 2008
Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, and Niko Matouschek
Adaptive Organizations
Journal of Political Economy, October 2006
Wouter Dessein and Tano Santos
Information and Control in Ventures & Alliances
Journal of Finance, October 2005
Wouter Dessein
Network Competition with Heterogeneous Customers and Calling Patterns
Information Economics and Policy, January 2004
Wouter Dessein
Network Competition in Nonlinear Pricing
RAND Journal of Economics, December 2003
Wouter Dessein
Authority and Communication in Organizations
Review of Economic Studies, October 2002
Wouter Dessein