I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Munich). Prior to this, I was a graduate student at the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), where I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics in 2017.
I am an applied theorist with interests in contests, political economy and bounded rationality.
Contact: marco.serena85@gmail.com, +49.89.24246.5259, marco.serena4 (Skype)
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Working Papers
"Winners' Efforts in Team Contests", with Stefano Barbieri
"Harnessing Beliefs to Optimally Disclose Contestants' Types"
R&R, Economic Theory (2nd round)
"Biasing Unbiased Dynamic Contests", with Stefano Barbieri
R&R, Games and Economic Behavior
"Successful Opaque Management"
R&R, International Journal of Game Theory
"On the possibility of democratic redistribution in a two-class society", with Christos Mavridis
R&R, European Journal of Political Economy
"Level-k Models Rationalize Overspending in Contests", with Malin Arve
"Properties of Contests", with Luis Corchón
"A Belief-based Theory for Private Information Games"
"Momentum and Heterogeneity in Contests", with Stefano Barbieri
"Bid Cap and Disclosure Policies", with Bo Chen
Publications
"A Game-Free Microfoundation of Mutual Optimism"
2019, Games, 10, 37.
"Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size", with Christos Mavridis
2018, Public Choice, 177, 53–66. [WP]
"Sequential Contests Revisited"
2017, Public Choice, 173, 131-144. [WP]
2017, European Journal of Political Economy, 46, 15-25. [WP]
Chapters in books
"Contests Theory: a Survey", with Luis Corchón
2018, Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Edward Elgar. [WP]