Michele Lombardi

Research Interests

Mechanism Design, Implementation, Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, and Social Choice Theory.

Editorial Positions

Associate editor, Economic Theory, August 2023.

Associate editor, Economic Theory Bulletin, August 2023.

Associate editor, International Journal of Economic Theory, August 2021.

Recent Publications

“Designing Rotation Programs: Limits and Possibilities”, with V Korpela and R Saulle. Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. 

Alternative equivalent formulation for robust implementation”, with R Jain and C Mueller. Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.  

Behavioral Strong Implementation”, with T Hayashi, R Jain and V Korpela. Economic Theory, forthcoming.  

Recent Working Papers


"Implementation in Stationary Markov Pefect-Equilibrium" with T Hayashi. April 2024.


The difference between the weak core and the strong core from the design point of view, with V Korpela and F Savva. September 2023.

"Two-Player Rationalizable Implementation" with R Jain and V Korpela. December 2022. R&R from Journal of Economic Theory.

"Implementation in vNM stable set," with V Korpela and R Saulle. October 2022. New Version September 2023.

A bit about me

I like trail/road running and whenever I can I run away from the office to log some miles. This is the list of races at which I took part: