Auctions and Mechanism Design

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

Work in progress

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


Financial Economics and Security Design

Working papers

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

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 Irritations

Search and Matching

Working papers

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

Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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

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, July, 2026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.70047

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. 

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.