William Fuchs
Contact Information:
Haas School of Business Office: (510) 642-6989
University of California Berkeley wfuchs(@)haas.berkeley(.)edu
545 Student Services Building http://wfuchs.googlepages.com/
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
Education:
2000-2005 Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford, CA
• PhD. in Economics
• Advisors: T. Sargent and A. Skrzypacz
1995-1999 Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Licenciatura in Economics and Licenciatura in Business
• Advisor: Juan Pablo Nicolini
Employment:
2009- Assistant Professor Berkeley-Haas Finance Group.
2005 - 2009 Assistant Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, Department of Economics,
University of Chicago.
1999-2000 Business Analyst at Hermes Management Consulting (Argentina)
Published Papers:
Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation (with Francesco Lippi)
Review of Economic Studies No.2, Volume: 73, April 2006.
CEPR/ESI Prize 2004 for the Best Central Bank Research Paper.
Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations
American Economic Review Volume 97, Number 4 September 2007.
Landau Prize for Best Student Working Paper.
Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders (with Andy Skrzypacz)
American Economic Review Volume 100 Number 3 June 2010.
Matching Problems with Expertise in Firms and Markets (With Luis Garicano)
Journal of the European Economic Association P&P April-May 2010.
Work in Progress:
Bridging the Gap: A Note on Bargaining with Interdependent Values (with Andy Skrzypacz)
Bargaining with Deadlines and Private Information (with Andy Skrzypacz)
Subjective evaluations: The bonus as a signal of performance
Dividing and Discarding: A Procedure for Taking Decisions with Non-Transferable Utility (with Vinicius Carrasco)
From Equal to Despots: The Dynamics of Group Decision Taking with Private Information (with Vinicius Carrasco)
The Market for Advice (with Luis Garicano)
Fellowships and Awards:
• UTDT: Gold Medal for best GPA
• Stanford GSB Fellowship
• Jaedicke Prize (Stanford GSB)
• SIEPR Dissertation Fellowship
• Mariscal de Ayacucho Fellowship.
• Review of Economic Studies European Tour 2005.
• NSF Grant 2008-2010
• AER Refereeing Award
• Hover National Fellowship (Declined)
Refereeing
• American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, NSF, Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, Committee Member for the SED 2008 and 2009 Meetings.
Other
• Visiting Student NYU Fall 2003
• Fluent in Spanish and working knowledge of Italian
• US Citizen
• IZA Research Affiliate