EMIL TEMNYALOV
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Economics department, UTS Business School,University of Technology Sydney
emil.temnyalov [at] gmail
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Last updated: September 2023
FIELDS OF INTERESTMicroeconomic theory, industrial organization, market design, public policy, innovation  ACADEMIC POSITIONSDECRA Fellow, Australian Research Council [2020--2025]Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Economics Department, University of Technology Sydney [2020--now]Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Economics Department, University of Technology Sydney [2015--2019]
SHORT-TERM VISITSUniversity 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]
EDUCATIONPhD Economics. Northwestern University, USA [2009--2015]MA Economics, Northwestern University, USA [2009--2010]BA Mathematics, Economics (magna cum laude), Amherst College, USA [2005--2009]Visiting Student, Harvard University, USA [2007-2008]
PUBLICATIONSThe RAND Journal of Economics, November 2017. doi: 10.1111/1756-2171.12211 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Fall 2019. doi: 10.1111/jems.12292Review of Industrial Organization, June 2020. doi: 10.1007/s11151-020-09750-6American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2021. doi: 10.1257/mic.20180245American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2023. doi: 10.1257/mic.20200400Economic Theory, November 2023. doi: 10.1007/s00199-023-01532-x
WORKING PAPERS 
WORK IN PROGRESS
  • College admissions with reputational externalities (with Isa Hafalir and Kentaro Tomoeda)
  • Admission priorities and socio-economic inequality
  • Mechanism design for differential treatment

TEACHING EXPERIENCESubject coordinator and lecturer, Economics of Competition and Strategy (undergraduate), Industrial Organization (undergraduate), Rationality & Incentives (Master),  Microeconomics I (PhD) Teaching Consultant & Workshop Leader, Northwestern University Searle Center [2013--2015]Teaching Assistant, Kellogg School of Management [2014], Northwestern University [2010--2013], Amherst College [2006--2009]
PROFESSIONAL SERVICEReferee for the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Health Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the International Journal of Game TheoryReviewer for Australian Research Council's Discovery and Linkage grant schemesProgram committee member for the ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO 2021, 2022, 2023)Co-organizer for the CPMD workshop on market design (June 2018, Sydney, UTS), the Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (December 2022, Sydney), the Australian Education Markets academic research network Local organizer and program committee member for the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting, July 2016, Sydney, UTSMember of the Econometric Society, American Economic Association, European Economic Association, Game Theory Society, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and Mechanism Design For Social Good (Asia-Pacific group, Conversations with Practitioners group, Inequality group)
DEPARTMENT SERVICE AT UTSBusiness School's Faculty Board (4 semesters)Business School's Faculty Research CommitteeDirector of Engagement (Economics department)Bachelor of Business review: Design Panel Bachelor of Business review: Economics Working GroupBachelor of Economics review: Economics Working GroupSeminar coordinator (3 semesters)Research committee (3 semesters)Recruiting committee (2 semesters)Recruiting coordinator for interviews and flyouts (1 semester)Media engagements to promote Economics degrees at UTS (3 engagements)Undergraduate student recruiting (7 events) 
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDSDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council    [2020--2025]UTS Business School's "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]Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Memorial PhD Fellowship, Amherst College    [2009--11, 2012--13]C. Scott Porter Memorial PhD Fellowship, Amherst College    [2009--11]Amherst College Scholarship, Georges Lurcy Scholarship Fund, Amherst College    [2005--2009]Phi Beta Kappa, Massachusetts    [2009]
CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS2024 (including scheduled): Matching Markets and Inequality Workshop (Exeter), Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (Budapest/Corvinus University), Keio University (Tokyo), Monash University (Melbourne)2023: Western Economic Association International meeting (Melbourne), Conference on Economic Design (Girona), Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (Sorbonne, Paris), Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (NTU, Singapore), European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (LUISS, Rome), City University London, Queen's University Belfast, University of Nottingham2022: Public Economic Theory annual conference (Marseille/virtual), Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (virtual), Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (ANU, Canberra/virtual), Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (Keio, Tokyo/virtual), EEA-ES Europe Meeting (Bocconi, Milan), BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo), CREST/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)2021: Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory annual conference (Seoul/virtual), Game Theory Society World Congress (Budapest/virtual, rescheduled from 2020), Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (poster/virtual), Melbourne IO Workshop (Melbourne/Monash)2020: American Economic Association Winter Meeting (San Diego), Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (Adelaide),  Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (Klagenfurt/virtual), Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (MIT/virtual), Mechanism Design for Social Good (poster/virtual), Econometric Society World Congress (Milan/virtual), European Economic Association annual congress (Rotterdam/virtual), University of Auckland (virtual), University College Dublin (virtual), Hitotsubashi Summer Institute (Tokyo/virtual), 2019: Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (Sydney), California Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto Rotman, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Toulouse School of Economics, Northwestern Law Conference on Innovation Economics (Chicago), Econometric Society NASM 2019 (Seattle), PET 2019 (Strasbourg), Organisational Economics Workshop 2019 (Canberra/ANU), APIOC 2019 (Tokyo)2018: University of Melbourne, Midwest Economic Theory Conference (Philadelphia/Drexel), Econometric Society China Meeting (Shanghai/Fudan), Econometric Society Asia Meeting (Seoul/Sogang), University of Technology Sydney, UNSW, APIOC 2018 (Melbourne)2017: Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (Auckland), UNSW (2x), University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, Econometric Society Asia Meeting 2017 (Hong Kong)2016: APIOC 2016 (Melbourne), Monash University, Econometric Society Asia Meeting 2016 (Kyoto), UQ IO/Microeconomics Workshop, Econometric Society Australasia Meeting 2016 (Sydney), University of Queensland, IIOC 2016 (Philadelphia), UNSW, Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (Monash)2015: ATE Symposium on industrial economics, competition policy and regulation (Auckland), University of Technology Sydney, IIOC 2015 (Boston), University of Toronto, University of Washington Bothell School of Business, University of Technology Sydney, University of Melbourne, Monash University, Drexel University2014: Northwestern University Theory Bag Lunch seminar, Northwestern University Industrial Organization seminar, Munich Conference on Innovation and Competition (Max Planck & ETH Zurich)2013: Northwestern University Industrial Organization seminar2012: Whitebox Doctoral Conference on Behavioral Science (Yale SOM)
LANGUAGESEnglish (fluent), Bulgarian (native), German (basic), Russian (basic)