William Bentley MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian-American economist. He is Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University and the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs Emeritus at Columbia University.Columbia University Economics He is a specialist in the fields of labor economics and organizational economics, and law and economics.http://wbmacleod.net
Education MacLeod received a B.A. with distinction in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1975 and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1979. He completed his economics doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984.
Academic career He began his teaching career at Queen's University, then he taught at Université de Montréal, Boston College, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, before coming to Columbia University. He has also held one year visiting positions at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics(Belgium), Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona),https://www.iae.csic.es/ Princeton University, the Russell Sage FoundationRussell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars and the Institute for Advanced Study.Institute for Advanced Study Spring 2012 Newsletter
He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005,Fellows of the Econometric Society and fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2012. He is also the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article "Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet" with H. Lorne Carmichael.H.Gregg Lewis Prize He is a Past President of the Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics in 2017–18, and the American Law and Economics Association in 2021.
Notable publications "Advanced microeconomics for contract, institutional, and organizational economics", MIT Press, "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment" by MacLeod and Malcomson MacLeod, W. Bentley, and James M. Malcomson. "Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts." The American Economic Review 83, no. 4 (1993): 811–37, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117580 MacLeod, W. Bentley. "Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement." Journal of Economic Literature 45, no. 3 (2007): 595–628. www.jstor.org/stable/27646841. "First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes" mentioned in Tort Reform. "Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation," American Economic Review: Vol. 93 No. 1 (March 2003).American Economic Review: Vol. 93 No. 1 "Performance Pay and Wage Inequality", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol. 124, Issue 1 (joint with T. Lemieux and D. Parent)Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol. 124, Issue 1 "Administrative Corruption and Taxation", by Frank Flatters and W. Bentley Macleod. Reprinted in "The Economics Of Corruption And Illegal Markets". Gianluca Fiorentini and Stefano Zamagni ed "The Economics Of Corruption And Illegal Markets"
Personal life MacLeod is married to Janet Currie, an economist at Yale University. They have two children.Rose Kernochan, "Five Minutes with... Janet Currie", Columbia College Today, November/December 2008
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