Welcome! I am a Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Essex working on economic theory and the theory of industrial organisation. I was previously a Professor at Toulouse School of Economics, where I am currently an Associate Faculty member. I got my PhD from Northwestern University in 2012.
I have held an ERC Starting Grant (2017-2021; extended to June 2023). I was selected for an ERC Consolidator Grant, now funded as a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (2024-2029). I am an Associate Editor at the Review of Economic Studies and a Fellow of the CEPR.
You can contact me at dfgarrett@gmail.com or at d.garrett@essex.ac.uk.
My CV is here.
Published papers.
`Regulating Investments When Both Costs and Need Are Private,' with Elena Panova, Games and Economic Behavior, 2026, vol. 160, 104025.
`A Dynamic Theory of Random Price Discounts,' with Francesc Dilmé, Review of Economic Studies, 2026, vol. 93, 1671-1709.
`Optimal Technology Design,' with George Georgiadis, Alex Smolin, and Balázs Szentes, Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, vol. 209, 105621.
`Relational Contracts: Public versus Private Savings,' with Francesc Dilmé, Econometrica, 2023, vol. 91, 1025-1075.
`Ready to Trade? On Budget-Balanced Efficient Trade with Uncertain Arrival,' Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, vol. 138, 161-170.
`Oligopoly under Incomplete Information: On the Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination,' with Renato Gomes and Lucas Maestri, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, vol. 79, 102735. (EARIE special issue.)
`Payoff Implications of Incentive Contracting,' Theoretical Economics, 2021, vol. 16, 1281-1312.
`Fake Sales: A Dynamic Pricing Perspective,' Japanese Economic Review, 2019, vol. 70, 375-382. (APIOC special issue.)
`Competitive Screening under Heterogeneous Information,' with Renato Gomes and Lucas Maestri, Review of Economic Studies, 2019, vol. 86, 1590-1630.
`Residual Deterrence,' with Francesc Dilmé, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, vol. 17, 1654-1686.
`Overbooking,' with Jeff Ely and Toomas Hinnosaar, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, vol. 15, 1258-1301.
`Dynamic Mechanism Design: Dynamic Arrivals and Changing Values,' Games and Economic Behavior, 2017, vol. 104, 595-612.
`Intertemporal Price Discrimination: Dynamic Arrivals and Changing Values,' American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106, 3275-3299.
`Dynamic Managerial Compensation: A Variational Approach,' with Alessandro Pavan, Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, vol. 159, 775-818.
`Robustness of Simple Menus of Contracts in Cost-Based Procurement,' Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, vol. 87, 631-641.
`Managerial Turnover in a Changing World,' with Alessandro Pavan, Journal of Political Economy, 2012, vol. 120, 879-925.
`Bidding in a Possibly Common-Value Auction,' with Yuk-fai Fong, Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, vol. 70, 494-501.
Work in progress or needing revision.
`Robust Predictions in Dynamic Screening,' with Alessandro Pavan and Juuso Toikka.
`Dynamic Price Competition with Commitment and Search.'
`Sorry! The Cost Has Gone Up,' with Aditya Kuvalekar.
`The Slippery Slope of Dishonesty in Dynamic Agency,' with Siddharth Chatterjee.
`Payoff Implications of Dynamic Incentive Contracting,' with Siddharth Chatterjee and Julien Lambert.
`Competitive Credit and Present Bias: A Stochastic Discounting Approach,' with Siddharth Chatterjee. (Early version here.)
`Dynamic Mechanisms: An Experiment,' with Mikhail Freer and Andreas Ziegler.