Ian Ball
Gary Loveman Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Economics
For the 2023-2024 academic year, I am on leave at Northwestern Kellogg.
My research interests are in economic theory, particularly mechanism design and information design.
ianball@mit.edu
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Published and Forthcoming Papers
Benefiting from Bias: Delegating to Encourage Information Acquisition with Xin Gao
Journal of Economic Theory (2024)
Content Filtering with Inattentive Information Consumers with Justin Grana, James Bono, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, and Alex Slivkins
AAAI '24
Dynamic Information Provision: Rewarding the Past and Guiding the Future
Econometrica (2023)
Corrigendum to “Role of Linking Mechanisms in Multitask Agency with Hidden Information” [JET, 2010] with Deniz Kattwinkel
Journal of Economic Theory (2023)
Comment on Jackson and Sonnenschein (2007) "Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions" with Matt Jackson and Deniz Kattwinkel
Econometrica (2022)
Working Papers
Scoring Strategic Agents
Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsOptimal Auction Design with Flexible Royalty Payments with Teemu Pekkarinen
Quota Mechanisms: Robustness and Finite-Sample Performance with Deniz Kattwinkel
Should the Timing of Inspections be Predictable? with Jan Knoepfle
EC '23Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design with Deniz Kattwinkel
EC '19
Notes and Expository Papers
A Unified Theorem of the Alternative for Linear Inequalities
Simple Proofs of the Variational and Multiple Priors Representations