Peter Eso Home

Associate Professor in Economics, Department of Economics
Roger Hugh Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Jesus College, Oxford
University of Oxford

E-mail: petereso@gmail.com

Google scholar profile.

An Iterated Strict Dominance solver for two-player finite games
(it runs in the browser, authored by Thomas Eso):
https://sites.google.com/view/iesds

Publications:

"Auction Design with a Risk Averse Seller" (with Gábor Futó), Economics Letters, 65 (1999), 71-74.

Precautionary Bidding in Auctions” (with Lucy White), Econometrica, 72:1 (January 2004), 77-92.

Bribing and Signaling in the Second-Price Auction” (with James Schummer), Games and Economic Behavior, 47 (2004), 299-324.

An Optimal Auction with Correlation and Risk-Aversion”, Journal of Economic Theory, 125 (2005), 78-89.

Optimal Information Disclosure in Auctions and the Handicap Auction” (with Balázs Szentes), Review of Economic Studies, 74 (2007), 705-731.

The Price of Advice” (with Balázs Szentes), RAND Journal of Economics, 38:4 (2007), 863-880.

Credible Deviations from Signaling Equilibria” (with James Schummer), International Journal of Game Theory, 48:3 (2009), 411–430.

Competition for Scarce Resources” (with Volker Nocke and Lucy White), RAND Journal of Economics, 41:3 (Fall 2010), 524-548.

"Disagreement and Evidence Production in Strategic Information Transmission" (with Ádám Galambos), International Journal of Game Theory, 42:1 (2013), 263-282.

"Persuasion and Learning by Countersignaling" (with Kim-Sau Chung), Economics Letters, 121:3 (2013), 487-491. Longer version: “Signaling with Career Concerns”, CMS-EMS DP #1443

"Information and Evidence in Bargaining" (with Chris Wallace), Economic Theory Bulletin, 2:1 (2014), 23-32.

"Dynamic Contracting: An Irrelevance Theorem" (with Balazs Szentes), Theoretical Economics 12:1 (January 2017), 109–139. Winner of the 2017 Best paper award in Theoretical Economics.

"Bargaining with Hard Evidence" (with Chris Wallace), Economic Journal, Vol. 129, Issue 621, July 2019, Pages 2039–2063, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12632.

Active working papers:

"Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets" with Chris Wallace, July 2022.

Dormant working papers:

Wait and See: A Theory of Communication over Time
(with Yuk-fai Fong), manuscript, November 2008.

The One Who Controls the Information Appropriates Its Rent
(with Balázs Szentes), CMS-EMS DP #1369 (April 2003)

“Multi-Good Efficient Auctions with Multi-Dimensional Information”
(with Eric Maskin), manuscript, December 2002.

Published Teaching Materials:

“Orangia Highways” Parts A and B (with Graeme Hunter, Peter Klibanoff, Karl Schmedders) Kellogg MBA case #5-106-007A and #5-106-007B.

“Pedigree vs. Grit: Predicting Mutual Fund Manager Performance” (with Graeme Hunter, Peter Klibanoff, Karl Schmedders), Kellogg MBA case, #5-407-755.