Senior Lecturer in Economics · UTS Business School · ARC DECRA Fellow
emil.temnyalov at gmail dot com · ORCID · Google Scholar
Senior Lecturer in Economics · UTS Business School · ARC DECRA Fellow
emil.temnyalov at gmail dot com · ORCID · Google Scholar
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Economics Department, UTS Business School [2020–present]
DECRA Fellow, Australian Research Council [2020–2026]
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Economics Department, UTS Business School [2015–2019]
University of Cambridge [August–November 2022]
University of British Columbia [January–April 2019]
Northwestern University [March 2019]
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [February 2019, January 2017]
PhD Economics, Northwestern University [2009–2015]
MA Economics, Northwestern University [2009–2010]
BA Mathematics & Economics (magna cum laude), Amherst College [2005–2009]
Visiting Student, Harvard University [2007–2008]
I am an economist at UTS and a DECRA fellow of the ARC. My research is in market design, industrial organisation, and organisational economics. I am motivated by research questions that deal with public policy and social welfare, such as in my education, innovation, and consumer protection work. I also take teaching seriously — probably more seriously than most economists — and have spent years experimenting with how to teach better.
I do research in market design and industrial organisation. My main interests are in large matching and assignment games, mechanism design, information economics, and contests. I am especially motivated by research questions with significant policy consequences — in public policy (differential treatment, affirmative action, optimal rationing), innovation (R&D incentives and the patent system), antitrust, and financial contracting.
I am currently working on new models of differential treatment and inequality in market design. If you work at the intersection of mechanism design, market design, or information economics and share an interest in policy-oriented theory, I am always happy to discuss ideas and potential collaborations.
I approach teaching as a reflective practice — continually asking whether my methods match my objectives for each class and each student cohort. My core conviction is that passive and active learning are fundamentally different cognitive activities that call for different formats. Content delivery belongs in asynchronous, student-controlled media; class time belongs to discussion, problem-solving, and direct intellectual engagement. This shapes every course I design.
I also believe economists have been slow to exploit the tools now available for teaching. Over the past several years I have built and tested new formats — interactive video, AI tutoring, hybrid and online delivery — because I have found they genuinely work better for students.
Optimal priorities under partial comparability
How should we rank candidates when inputs are multi-dimensional and only partially comparable?
Admission priorities and socio-economic inequality
How do admission priorities and ability sorting across programmes interact with socio-economic inequality?
College admissions with reputational externalities (with Isa Hafalir and Kentaro Tomoeda)
Capacity design, organizational structure and differential treatment
The RAND Journal of Economics, 2017. doi: 10.1111/1756-2171.12211
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2019. doi: 10.1111/jems.12292
Review of Industrial Organization, 2020. doi: 10.1007/s11151-020-09750-6
Liability insurance: Equilibrium contracts under monopoly and competition (with Jorge Lemus and John Turner),
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021. doi: 10.1257/mic.20180245
Economic Theory, 2023. doi: 10.1007/s00199-023-01532-x
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023. doi: 10.1257/mic.20200400
Flipped Classroom and Interactive Video
My Industrial Organisation course runs as a fully flipped classroom. Lectures are pre-recorded videos, developed from my own lecture notes, built with H5P imnteractions at key moments, to nudge students to be present.
Weekly seminars (1.5–2 hours) are entirely focused on discussions, Q&A, and problem-solving.
Hybrid and Online Curriculum Development
I teach two Master-level subjects on Rationality and Game Theory, which I transformed from in-person to hybrid/online, when the UTS Master of Behavioural Economics was re-designed as an online programme.
AI Tools in Teaching
I've developed several AI tools to enhance the student experience and improve my own workflow:
AI Tutor — EMILIO, my AI teaching assistant for undergraduate Industrial Organisation, is available to students at any time. Students ask him to explain concepts, walk through problem solutions, check deadlines, or brainstorm essay ideas.
AI Marking Assistant — I built an AI assistant for marking essays and mathematical questions. In 2025–26 its performance was statistically equivalent to that of my PhD student marker. If youhave exam or essay samples you'd like to try it on, please do get in touch!
AI Interview-style assessor (work in progress) — an adaptive, one-on-one, voice/video examiner, with context-sensitive follow-up questions, suitable for both subject and programmatic assessment.
Curious about my research? MiniEmil is an AI trained on my research. Ask him to summarise a result, explain a model, or discuss possible extensions with him.
EMILIO is my AI tutor for undergrad IO. He is trained on course materials and designed to support student learning around the clock. You are welcome to try him out.
Research Leadership & Professional Activities
In November 2021 I founded the Australian Education Markets (AusEM) academic network, bringing together theoretical, empirical and experimental economists working on market design and education policy. AusEM hosted an online seminar series across multiple semesters. LINK on "Australian Education Markets": https://sites.google.com/view/ausemnetwork/
I have been a member of the Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) working groups since 2020, including the Asia-Pacific group, Conversations with Practitioners, and the Inequality group. I have served on the programme committee for the ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO) in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. LINK on "Mechanism Design for Social Good": https://www.md4sg.com/
I have co-organised the CPMD workshop on market design (Sydney, 2018), the Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (Sydney, 2022), and served as local organiser and programme committee member for the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting (Sydney, 2016).
Grants, Fellowships & Awards
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council [2020–2026] ~AUD $438,000 for research on efficient and equitable policies in education and labour markets LINK on "Grant details": https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE200100590
UTS Business School "Top Teachers" award [2019, 2021, 2022]
PEP travel grant, University of Technology Sydney [2019, 2022]
Business Research Grant, University of Technology Sydney [2017, 2018]
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University [2014–2015]
Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University [2009–2015]
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Northwestern University [2010–2011]
Referee
American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, RAND Journal of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Law and Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Game Theory. Reviewer for Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage grant schemes.
Department Service at UTS
Business School Faculty Board
Bachelor of Business curriculum review co-lead
Bachelor of Economics curriculum review working group
Director of Engagement, Economics Department
Business School Faculty Research Committee
Seminar coordinator
Research committee
Recruiting committee
Recruiting coordinator for interviews and flyouts
Conference Presentations & Invited Talks
2026: Conferenceon Mechanism and Institutional Design (York)
2025: Conference on Economic Design (Essex)
2024: Matching Markets and Inequality Workshop (Exeter), Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (Budapest), Organisational Economics Workshop (Sydney/UNSW), Asia Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (Seoul), Keio University (Tokyo), Monash University (Melbourne)
2023: Western Economic Association International (Melbourne), Conference on Economic Design (Girona), Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (Paris), Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore), European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (Rome), City University London, Queen's University Belfast, University of Nottingham
2022: Public Economic Theory Conference (Marseille), Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (Canberra), Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (Tokyo), EEA-ES Europe Meeting (Milan), BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo), CREST/École Polytechnique (Paris)
2021: SAET (Seoul), Game Theory Society World Congress (Budapest), EAAMO, Melbourne IO Workshop
2020: AEA Winter Meeting (San Diego), Econometric Society World Congress, EEA Annual Congress (Rotterdam), University of Auckland, University College Dublin, Hitotsubashi Summer Institute, and others
2019: Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, Caltech, University of Toronto Rotman, UBC, Simon Fraser, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Toulouse School of Economics, Econometric Society NASM, PET, APIOC, and others
2015–2018: Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, University of Melbourne, UNSW, ANU, Econometric Society meetings across Asia and Australasia, IIOC (Philadelphia, Boston), and others