Ruben Gaetani

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga

Degrees:

2016, Ph.D. in Economics, Northwestern University
2011, M.A. in Economics, Northwestern University
2010, M.Sc. in Economics, Bocconi University
2007, B.A. in Economics, Bocconi University

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Bio

Ruben Gaetani is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Mississauga, cross-appointed to the Strategic Management area at Rotman. His research interests are at the intersection of economic growth, innovation and urban economics.

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Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/rubengaetani

Academic Positions

2016 - Present

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Selected Publications - Papers

Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online versus Face-to-face Interactions

Ruben Gaetani, Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Yanmin Yang

Working paper

2023
Technological Waves and Local Growth

Enrico Berkes, Ruben Gaetani, and Marti Mestieri

Working paper

2023
Income Segregation and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy

Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Issue:Volume 15, No. 2

2023

Pages: 69-102
Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Enrico Berkes, Olivier Deschenes, Ruben Gaetani, Jeffrey Lin, Christopher Severen

The Review of Economics and Statistics

Issue:Forthcoming

2022
The Geography of Unconventional Innovation

Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani

The Economic Journal

Issue:Volume 131, Issue 636

2021

Pages: 1466-1514
Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

Matthias Doepke and Ruben Gaetani

Working Paper

2020
The university's Janus face: The innovation–inequality nexus

Richard Florida and Ruben Gaetani

Managerial and Decision Economics

Issue:Volume 41, Issue 6

2020

Pages: 1097-1112