Working papers


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

Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica

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

Revised and Resubmitted at Economic Theory

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

Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Common-Valued Fixed-Equity Auctions under Induced Risk Aversion, with Zachary Breig and Diego Carrasco. Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration.

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

Signalling with Payment Instruments in Takeovers with Risk-Averse Bidders, with Diego Carrasco.

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


Selected Work in Progress

Scoring Contingent Procurement Auctions: Theory and Experimental Evidence, with Zachary Breig, Diego Carrasco, and Ernesto Rivera-Mora. 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.

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, forthcoming.

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

Economic Journal, forthcoming.

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, July, 2026. http://dx.doi.org/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.

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.

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

Monetaria, January 2013.  Link.

Discussions

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

Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) 2019 meeting