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Sean McQUADE

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Biography

Sean McQuade is an MS student studying Data Analytics and Computational Social Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current research is broadly focused on the behavior of powerful corporate actors and the intergenerational transmission of economic elites. His thesis systematically examines the professional backgrounds of executives who benefit from familial ties in large US corporations.

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Publications

Young, K., Velazco, J., McQuade, S., Pagliari, S., and Solipa, I. “Are Banks Still Central? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Position of Banks Vis-à-vis Interest Groups, Policy Planning Organizations and the Super-Rich, Unpublished manuscript in preparation for the Special Issue of the journal Competition & Change, edited by Elsa Clara Massoc and M. Kerem Coban, entitled “The Death of Banking as We Know It? The transformations of the banking sector since the Global Financial Crisis”.

McQuade, S. (2023). When Dad Is the CEO: How Familial Ties in the Executive Suite Affect Displays of Organizational Empathy. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 5 June 2023.