Ashwin Kambhampati

(ush-win come-bum-paw-tea)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2021

Assistant Professor of Economics, United States Naval Academy

My research is in the area of microeconomic theory. I am particularly interested in contract theory, matching theory, and market design.

I have taught three class sections per semester at USNA since Fall 2021, including courses in Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and a Capstone Research Seminar in Microeconomic Theory.

Email: kambhamp [at] usna.edu

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Publications

Pay Equality Among Heterogeneous Agents, with Ryan Hoffman and Scott Kaplan

Economics Letters, August 2023, Vol. 229.

Final working paper here. This is Ryan's AY2023 honors project, co-supervised with Scott.

Randomization is Optimal in the Robust Principal-Agent Problem

Journal of Economic Theory, January 2023, Vol. 207.

Final working paper here.

The Optimal Assortativity of Teams Inside the Firm, with Carlos Segura-Rodriguez

RAND Journal of Economics, Fall 2022, Vol. 53.

Final working paper here. Companion working paper here. Online Appendices here.

Working Papers

Randomization and the Robustness of Linear Contracts (draft coming soon), with Juuso Toikka and Rakesh Vohra

Robust Performance Evaluation of Independent Agents (August 2023)

Revised and resubmitted to Theoretical Economics.

Abstract published in EC '21: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.

Payoff Continuity in Games of Incomplete Information Across Models of Knowledge (April 2023)

Revised and resubmitted to Games and Economic Behavior.

Why Informationally Diverse Teams Need Not Form, Even When Efficient (June 2023), with Carlos Segura-Rodriguez and Peng Shao

A continuous version of Matching to Produce Information: A Model of Self-Organized Research Teams (Online Appendix) with a complete characterization of inefficiency.