Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration
Area Chair, Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Education
PhD University of Chicago 2004
MBA Indian Institute of Management 1996
BTech Indian Institute of Technology 1994
Biography

Jagadeesh Sivadasan is the Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration in the Business Economics and Public Policy group of the Ross School of Business, and a faculty associate at the Institute of Social Research, at the University of Michigan. His recent research is focused on understanding the drivers of firm growth and productivity, and worker performance and mobility.  Ongoing and recent work include analysis of the effect of commute improvement on worker performance, review of the recent evolution of the retail sector in the US,  analysis of firm growth patterns using a novel decomposition and data on the universe of US employers, evaluation of frictions from acquisitions-related legal doctrine on firm dynamics, and examination of the effect of non-compete laws on worker mobility. 

Jagadeesh teaches the core applied microeconomics course in the Full-Time, Global and executive MBA programs. His MBA elective course, Incentives and Productivity, presents an economics-grounded approach to human capital management. He has also taught in the PhD program at Ross. Jagadeesh has served as the director of the FTMBA program, and as the chairperson of the Business Economics and Public Policy group.  He was the recipient of the 2018 Victor L Bernard Teaching Leadership award, and the 2019 Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award (from the FTMBA class of 2019).

Jagadeesh is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, where he completed a PGDM after a BTech at IIT Madras. He then worked as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen, before completing PhD from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. 

Latest Faculty News & Research
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
Authors
Francine Lafontaine and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Published Date
01/2022
Authors
Francine Lafontaine and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Source
University of Chicago Press
Pages
291-370
The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of Restaurants
Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, and Michael J. Andrews
International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms
Authors
Francine Lafontaine, Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Published Date
9/2009
Authors
Francine Lafontaine, Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Source
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pages
137-172
Within-firm Labor Productivity across Countries: A Case Study,
Richard Freeman and Katherine Shaw
Domestic gains from offshoring? Evidence from TAA-linked U.S. microdata
Authors
Ryan Monarch, Jooyoun Park, Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Published Date
03/2017
Authors
Ryan Monarch, Jooyoun Park, Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Source
Journal of International Economics
Volume
105
Issue
1
Pages
150–17
What happens when firms patent? New evidence from US manufacturing census data
Authors
Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Published Date
2011
Authors
Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Source
Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume
93
Issue
1
Pages
126-146
The effect of financial development on the investment-cash flow relationship: cross-country evidence from Europe
Authors
Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Published Date
2010
Authors
Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Source
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances Tier)
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
0