Ronald Wolthoff

Associate Professor; Associate Chair, UTM (on leave) Ph.D. (VU University Amsterdam, 2008), M.Sc. (Amsterdam, 2004), B.Sc. (Amsterdam, 2003) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 214. Phone: 416-978-5588. Fax: 416-978-6713. Office: University of Toronto, Mississauga, 3224. Phone: 905-569-4237. Email address: Personal website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/wolthoff/ Research fields: Macroeconomics, Labour economics

Selected research

• Stanislav Rabinovich and Ronald Wolthoff, "Misallocation Inefficiency in Partially Directed Search", Journal of Economic Theory 206 (105559) (2022), 1–35. (Freely available.)
• Ioana Marinescu and Ronald Wolthoff, "Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words", Journal of Labor Economics 38 (2) (2020), 535–568. (Freely available.)
• Ronald Wolthoff, "Applications and Interviews: Firms' Recruiting Decisions in a Frictional Labor Market", Review of Economic Studies 85 (2) (2018), 1314–1351. (Freely available.)
• Benjamin Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald Wolthoff, "Competing with Asking Prices", Theoretical Economics 12 (2) (2017), 731–770. (Freely available.)
• Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier, Ronald Wolthoff, "Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation", Journal of Economic Theory 169 (2017), 453–473. (Freely available.)

All publications

Honors and awards

• FEEM (Young Economist) Award, European Economic Association, 2011.

Courses taught 2023–2024

• Fall

• ECO2100H1F, section L0101 (St. George) • Macroeconomic Theory I (PhD) ( Gueorgui Kambourov and Ronald Wolthoff ) • M9-11, W9-11, R4-6 • GE 100