Recent Papers

1. Attar A., E. Campioni, T. Mariotti and A. Pavan (2022): Keeping Agents in the Dark: Private Signals in Competing Mechanisms (submitted).

Published Papers

1. Attar A., E. Campioni, and G. Piaser (2023): "Equilibrium (non-)Existence in Games with Competing Principals", Economics Letters (Forthcoming).

2. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2022): "Regulating Insurance Markets: Multiple Contracting and Adverse Selection", International Economic Review (Lead Article) 63(3): 981-1020.

3. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2021): "Entry Proofness and Discriminatory Pricing under Adverse Selection", American Economic Review 111(8): 2623–2659.

4. Attar A., E. Campioni, T. Mariotti and G. Piaser (2021): "Competing Mechanisms and Folk Theorems: Two Examples", Games and Economic Behavior 125: 79-93.

5. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2020): "The Social Cost of Side Trading", The Economic Journal 130: 1608–1622.

6. Attar A., E. Campioni and G. Piaser (2019): "Private Communication in Competing Mechanism Games", Journal of Economic Theory 183: 258-283.

7. Attar A., Casamatta C., Chassagnon A., and J.P. Decamps (2019): "Multiple Lenders, Strategic Default and Debt Covenants", American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 11(2): 98-130.

8. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2019): "On Competitive Nonlinear Pricing", Theoretical Economics 14(1): 297-343.

9. Attar A., Casamatta C., Chassagnon A., and J.P. Decamps (2019): "Contracting Sequentially with Multiple Lenders: the Role of Menus", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 51(4): 977-990.

10. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2019): "On a Class of Smooth Preferences", Economic Theory (Bulletin) 7: 37-57.

11. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2018): "Concurrence Non-Exclusive et Selection Adverse", Revue Economique 69(6): 1009-1023.

12. Attar A., Campioni E., and G. Piaser (2018): "On Competing Mechanisms under Exclusive Competition", Games and Economic Behavior 111: 1-15.

13. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2014): "Non-Exclusive Competition under Adverse Selection", Theoretical Economics 9: 1-40.

14. Attar A., Campioni E., and G. Piaser (2013): "Two-sided communication in competing mechanism games", Journal of Mathematical Economics 49(1): 62-70.

15. Attar A., Campioni E., Piaser, G., and U. Rajan (2012): "Competing mechanism games of moral hazard: communication and robustness", Review of Economic Design 16: 283-296.

16. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2011): "Non-exclusive competition in the market for lemons", Econometrica 79(6): 1869-1918.

17. Attar A., Campioni, E., Piaser G., and U. Rajan (2010): "On multiple principal, multiple agent models of moral hazard", Games and Economic Behavior 68(1): 376-380.

18. Attar A. and Chassagnon A. (2009): "On moral hazard and non-exclusive contracts", Journal of Mathematical Economics 45 (9-10): 511-525.

19. Attar A., Majumdar, D., Piaser, G., and N. Porteiro (2008): "Common agency games: separable preferences and indifference", Mathematical Social Sciences 6(1): 75-95.

20. Attar A., Piaser G., and N. Porteiro (2007): "Negotiation and take-it or leave-it offers with non-contractible actions", Journal of Economic Theory , 135(1): 590-593.

21. Attar A., Piaser G., and N. Porteiro (2007): "On common agency models of moral hazard", Economics Letters 95: 278-284.

22. Attar A. and E. Campioni (2007): "Credit cycles in a Neo-Austrian economy", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (18) 2: 249-269.

23. Attar A., Campioni E., and G. Piaser (2006): "Multiple lending and constrained efficiency in the credit market", B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions) 6(1).

24. Attar A. (2004): "Financial constraints and economic fluctuations", Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 2: 334-358.

25. Attar A. and E. Campioni (2003): "Costly state verification and debt contracts: a critical resume", Research in Economics 4: 315-343.

Book Chapters and Op-Eds

1. Attar A., Mariotti T. and F. Salanié (2022): "Competitive Nonlinear Pricing under Adverse Selection", in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Twelfth World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge University Press.

2. Attar A. and T. Mariotti (2020): "Free Market or Socialism: Have Economists Really Anything to Say?", Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Research Paper, January 14th.

3. Attar A. and C. d’Aspremont (2018): "Trading under Asymmetric Information: Positive and Normative Implications", in Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Edward Elgar: 425-453.

Work in Progress

1. Attar A., Gavazza A., Mariotti T., Salanie F. and E. Sette: Adverse Selection under Multiple Contracting: New Empirical Results.

2. Attar A., Farinha Luz V., Mariotti T. and F. Salanie: Mixed Strategy Equilibria, Nonexclusive Competition and Adverse Selection.

Permanent Working Papers

1. Attar A., Chassagnon A., and U. Rajan (2014): Bertrand-Edgeworth competition under moral hazard.

2. Attar A., Reiche S., and R. Strausz (2013): Mediating Renegotiation in Agency Contracts.

3. A. Attar (2008): Financial contracting along the business cycle.