Alexander Oettl
Associate Professor
Research
Economics of Innovation
Production and Diffusion of Ideas
Education
PhD, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Biography
Alex Oettl joined Scheller in 2009. His research interests include the economics of innovation, knowledge spillovers, labor mobility, and economic geography. His current work focuses on the production and diffusion of ideas at the individual, firm, and regional level.
Professor Oettl's research has been published in Management Science, Nature, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Journal of Urban Economics, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, profiled in multiple media outlets, and presented at business schools around the world. He is a recipient of the 2014 Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.
Featured publications
Agrawal, Ajay, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl. 2017 “How stars matter: Recruiting and peer effects in evolutionary biology,” Research Policy, 46(2017), 853-867.
Agrawal, Ajay, Alberto Galasso, and Alexander Oettl. 2017. "Roads and Innovation" Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(3), 417–434.
Catalini, Christian, Nico Lacetera, and Alexander Oettl. 2015. "The incidence and role of negative citations in science," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(45), 13823–13826.
Agrawal, Ajay, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso, and Alexander Oettl. 2014. “Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs,” Journal of Urban Economics, 81(1), 149–165.
Chava, Sudheer, Alexander Oettl, Ajay Subramanian, and Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian. 2013. "Bank Deregulation and Innovation," Journal of Financial Economics, 109, 759-774.
Oettl, Alexander. 2012. “Honour the Helpful,” Nature, 489(7417), 496-497.
Oettl, Alexander. 2012. “Reconceptualizing Stars: Scientist Helpfulness and Peer Performance,” Management Science, 58(6), 1122-1140.
Agrawal, Ajay, Devesh Kapur, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl. 2011 “Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation,” Journal of Urban Economics, 69(1), 43-55
Oettl, Alexander and Ajay Agrawal. 2008. "International Labor Mobility and Knowledge Flow Externalities." Journal of International Business Studies, 39, 1242–1260.