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Prof Brown is Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business. Her research interests include industrial organization and personnel economics, as well as questions as the intersection of labor and finance. Her recent empirical work has studied competitors’ incentives and strategies in tournaments and contests, job seekers’ behavior during the Great Recession, and the consequences of consumer protection laws. Her research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Finance.