Working papers


Experimental Auctions with Securities, with Zachary Breig and Declan Hunt.

Conditionally accepted, Economic Journal.

Competing Sellers in Security-Bid Auctions under Risk-Averse Bidders, with Diego Carrasco.

Revise and Resubmit at Economic Theory

Optimal Scaling Auctions: A Consumer Theory Deconstruction, with Ernesto Rivera-Mora.

Signaling Equilibria in Takeovers with Risk-Averse Bidders, with Diego Carrasco.

Dynamic Pricing under Downward Sloping Demands, with Toño Carrasco and Joel Rabenhorst.

Optimal Reserve Prices under Seller Uncertainty, with Dong-Hyuk Kim.

Multi-unit Search: An Experimental Approach, with Zachary Breig and Toño Carrasco.


Selected Work in Progress

Independent Allocation of Control and Cash Flow Rights, with Guillem Ordoñez-Calafí and Andrés Fioriti.

Experimental Fixed-Equity Auctions: The Common Value Case, with Zachary Breig and Diego Carrasco. Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration.

Security Design under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the Lab, with Zachary Breig and Jingjing Zhang. Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration.

Scoring Procurement Auctions: Theory and Experimental Evidence, with Zachary Breig, Diego Carrasco, and Ernesto Rivera-Mora. Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration.

Optimal Sequential Search with Multiple Units, with Diego Carrasco and Toño Carrasco.


Publications 

Recovering 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, January, 2026. https://doi/10.1111/iere.70047.

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.

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 Irritations

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.

The 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. 

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.

Fiscal Moral Hazard due to Monetary Integration, with Alberto Trejos. 

Monetaria, January 2013.  Link.

Other 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.

Discussions

Strategic `Mistakes': Implications for Market Design Research [slides] by Georgy Artemov, Yeon-Koo Che, and Yinghua He

Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) 2019 meeting