Current employment: Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich.
Education: PhD, Economics (2017), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.
Research Interests: game theory, contests, political economy and bounded rationality.
Contact: marco.serena85@gmail.com, +49.89.24246.5259, marco.serena4 (Skype)
Please, find here my CV and my GoogleScholar.
Working Papers
"Harnessing Beliefs to Stimulate Efforts in Contests", (R&R, Economic Theory)
"Level-k Models Rationalize Overspending in Contests", with Malin Arve
"Properties of Contests", with Luis Corchón
"Successful Opaque Management"
"A Level-k Theory for Private Information Games"
"Biasing Unbiased Dynamic Contests", with Stefano Barbieri
"Winners' Efforts in Team Contests", with Stefano Barbieri
Publications
"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]