I am an economic theorist.
My areas of interest include contests, auctions, mechanism design, price discrimination, information design, law and economics, and equilibrium existence in games.
Publications
21. Judicial Mechanism Design, with Bruno Strulovici. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2023.
20. Pareto Improving Segmentation of Multi-Product Markets, with Nima Haghpanah. Journal of Political Economy, June 2023.
19. Equilibrium Existence in Games with Ties, with Wojciech Olszewski. Theoretical Economics, May 2023.
18. Equilibrium Existence in Contests with Bid Caps, with Wojciech Olszewski. Journal of Mathematical Economics, January 2023.
17. The Limits of Multi-Product Price Discrimination, with Nima Haghpanah. American Economic Review: Insights, December 2022.
16. Large Contests without Single Crossing, with Wojciech Olszewski. Economic Theory , November 2022.
15. How to Sell Hard Information, with Nageeb Ali, Nima Haghpanah, and Xiao Lin. Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2022.
14. Licensing with Skill Acquisition, Economics Letters , October 2020.
13. Performance-Maximizing Large Contests, with Wojciech Olszewski. Theoretical Economics, January 2020.
12. Bid Caps in Large Contests, with Wojciech Olszewski. Games and Economic Behavior, May 2019.
11. Contracts with Framing, with Yuval Salant. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2018.
10. Large Contests, with Wojciech Olszewski. Econometrica, March 2016. Online Appendix
9. Reallocation Costs and Efficiency, with Yuval Salant. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2016.
8. Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions with Interdependent Valuations. Journal of Economic Theory, September 2014.
Online Appendix, Matlab implementation for general distributions, Matlab implementation for independent distributions, Matlab examples with independent distributions
7. Asymmetric Contests with Head Starts and Non-Monotonic Costs. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014.
Online Appendix, Matlab implementation for all-pay auctions with head starts, Matlab examples
6. Contests with Productive Effort. International Journal of Game Theory, August 2014.
5. Matching and Price Competition: Beyond Symmetric Linear Costs, with Julio Gonzalez-Diaz. International Journal of Game Theory, November 2013.
4. Adverse Selection and Unraveling in Common-Value Labor Markets, with Jeffrey Ely. Theoretical Economics, September 2013.
3. Participation in Deterministic Contests. Economics Letters, September 2012.
2. Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments. American Economic Review, December 2010. Online Appendix
1. All-Pay Contests. Econometrica, January 2009.
Working Papers
22. Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions, with Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, Wojciech Olszewski, and Chloe Tergiman. R&R at Review of Economic Studies.
23. Equilibrium Existence in First-Price Auctions with Private values, with Wojciech Olszewski and Phil Reny. R&R at Econometrica.
24. The Economic Case for Probability-Based Sentencing, with Bruno Strulovici.
25. A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations, with Nima Haghpanah.
Work in Progress
26. Screening with Two Types, with Nima Haghpanah.