Auctions and Mechanism Design
Working papers
Optimal Scaling Auctions: A Consumer Theory Deconstruction, with Ernesto Rivera-Mora.
Revise and Resubmit at EconometricaOptimal Reserve Prices under Seller Uncertainty, with Dong-Hyuk Kim.
Economic Theory, October 2026. https://doi.org.10.1007/s00199-026-01758-5Scoring Contingent Auctions for Procurement: Theory and Experimental Evidence, with Zachary Breig, Diego Carrasco, and Ernesto Rivera-Mora. Pre-Registration.
Financial Economics and Security Design
Working papers
Independent Allocation of Control and Cash Flow Rights, with Guillem Ordoñez-Calafí and Andrés Fioriti. Slides.
Signaling with Payment Instruments in Takeovers with Risk-Averse Bidders, with Diego Carrasco.
Common-Valued Fixed-Equity Auctions under Induced Risk Aversion, with Zachary Breig and Diego Pre-Registration.
Work in progress
Security Design under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the Lab, with Zachary Breig and Jingjing Zhang. Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration.
Votes as Assets: Public Financing of Electoral Campaigns using Securities, with Efrain Boza and Toño Carrasco.
Publications
Competing Sellers in Security-Bid Auctions under Risk-Averse Bidders, with Diego Carrasco.
Economic Theory, September, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-026-01742-z.Experimental Auctions with Securities, with Zachary Breig and Declan Hunt.
Economic Journal, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag074.Competition between Sellers in Security-Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study, with Zachary Breig and Elliot Hiller.
Experimental Economics, December, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2025.10034.Leveling the Playing Field for Risk-Averse Agents in Security-Bid Auctions, with Andrés Fioriti.
Management Science, September 2021. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4080.Bidding Securities in Projects with Negative Externalities, with Andrés Fioriti.
European Economic Review, September 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.05.003.Information Economics
Publications
Contagion Management through Information Disclosure, with Jonas Hedlund and Carlos Oyarzún
Journal of Economic Theory, June 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2024.105837. Featured in Pearls and IrritationsSearch and Matching
Working papers
Dynamic Pricing under Downward Sloping Demands, with Toño Carrasco and Joel Rabenhorst.
Publications
Multi-Unit Search: An Experimental Approach, with Zachary Breig and Toño Carrasco.
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, November, 2026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.70047Recovering Preferences in College Assignment Problems under Strategic and Constrained Reports.
This version supersedes the manuscript titled "Centralized Assignment of Students to Majors: Evidence from the University of Costa Rica".International Economic Review, July, 2026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.70047The Extrinsic Value of Low-denomination Money Holdings.
Economic Theory Bulletin, March 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-020-00182-9.College Assignment Problems under Constrained Choice, Private Preferences, and Risk Aversion.
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, February 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2019-0002.Fiscal Moral Hazard due to Monetary Integration, with Alberto Trejos.
Monetaria, January 2013. Link.Other Fields
Publications
A Markov-Switching Approach to the Study of Citations in Academic Journals, with F. Delbianco, A. Fioriti, and F. Tohmé
Journal of Informetrics, November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101081.