Research

Publications

Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection (2023), with Henrique Castro-Pires and Jeroen Swinkels,  American Economic Review, 114 (lead article).

Matching with Search Frictions (2023), with Philipp Kircher, in Online and Matching-Based Market Design (Edited by F. Echenique, N. Immorlica, and V. Vazirani), Cambridge University Press. 

Risky Matching (2022), with Ilse Lindenlaub, Review of Economic Studies, 89, Online Appendix.

Screening in Vertical Oligopolies (2021), with Jeroen Swinkels, Econometrica, 89 (3), Online Appendix.

Competing Teams (2020), with Jan Eeckhout, Review of Economic Studies, 87 (3).

Insurance as a Lemons Market: Coverage Denials and Pooling (2020), with Edward Schlee, Journal of Economic Theory, 189.

The Moral Hazard Problem with High Stakes (2020), with Jeroen Swinkels, Journal of Economic Theory, 187.

The No-Upward-Crossing Condition, Comparative Statics, and the Moral Hazard Problem (2020), with Jeroen Swinkels, Theoretical Economics, 15. 

Matching Information (2018), with Jan Eeckhout, Theoretical Economics, 13.

Sorting through Search and Matching Models in Economics (2017), with Jan Eeckhout and Lones Smith, Journal of Economic Literature, 55 (2).

Delegated Information Acquisition with Moral Hazard (2016), with Natalia Kovrijnykh, Journal of Economic Theory, 162, Online Appendix.

Wealth Effects and Agency Costs (2014), with Virginia Vera de Serio, Games and Economic Behavior, 86, Online Appendix.

Students Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem (2014), with Greg Lewis and Lones Smith, Review of Economic Studies, 81, Online Appendix. 

Optimal Insurance under Adverse Selection (2012), with Edward Schlee, Theoretical Economics, 7.

An Optimal Auction with Identity-Dependent Externalities (2008), joint with Jorge Aseff, Rand Journal of Economics, 39.

Repeated Games with Present-Biased Preferences (2008), joint with Pavlo Prokopovych and Lones Smith, Journal of Economic Theory, 139.

Matching with Noise and the Acceptance Curse (2006), Journal of Economic Theory, 129.

Simultaneous Search (2006), with Lones Smith, Econometrica, 74 (5), Working Paper Version.

Stable Coalitions in a Continuous-Time Model of Risk Sharing (2005), with Bart Taub, Mathematical Social Sciences, 50.

Income Taxation and Marital Decisions (2005), with Gustavo Ventura, Review of Economic Dynamics, 8.

Another Look at the Radner-Stiglitz Nonconcavity in the Value of Information (2002), with Edward Schlee, Journal of Economic Theory, 107.

Taxes and Marriage: A Two-Sided Search Analysis (2002), with Gustavo Ventura, International Economic Review, 43 (3).

Moral Hazard, Risk Aversion, and the Principal's Loss (2002), with Virginia Vera de Serio, Economic Theory, 20.

Segmented Risk Sharing in a Continuous-Time Setting (2002), with Bart Taub, Economic Theory, 20.

Informed Principal, Moral Hazard, and the Value of a More Informative Technology (2002), with Randolph Silvers, Economics Letters, 74.

Pricing, Learning, and Strategic Behavior in a Single-Sale Model (2002), with Virginia Vera de Serio, Economic Theory, 19.

Two-Sided Search and Perfect Segregation with Fixed Search Costs (2001), Mathematical Social Sciences, 42.


Working Papers