Field: industrial organization. I want to develop empirical methods for applied microeconomics — demand, production, and the measurement of market power — and apply them where the counterfactual has to inform a public decision.
My work to date studies how market power interacts with public policy: my master's thesis estimated markups for a panel of Czech construction firms, public suppliers and private alike, and measured how a firm's markup changes as it enters and leaves public procurement — combining production-function estimation with modern causal-inference methods on administrative microdata. It received the Czech Economic Society's Young Economist of the Year Award (first place, 2025).
At Yale I work as a research assistant to Professors Seth Zimmerman and Barbara Biasi and take PhD coursework in empirical industrial organization and econometrics. Before coming to New Haven, I earned an M.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.Sc. in Economic Theory from Charles University, and held research assistant positions at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, and at CERGE-EI in Prague.
News
- June 2026 — Presented "Markups and Public Procurement" at the Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference at Yale
- November 2025 — First place, Young Economist of the Year Award, Czech Economic Society (announcement, award presentation)
- August 2025 — Young economist participant, 8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences
Contact: marek.chadim at yale dot edu · 87 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT