Maxwell Rosenthal

Hello, I'm an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  I work primarily on prior-free ("robust") approaches to contract theory and mechanism design, with secondary interests in the partial identification of economic theory models and in theoretically-motivated empirical work.

You can reach me via e-mail at rosenthal@gatech.edu.

Working papers:

• Blackwell without Priors

• Energy Price Pass-Through with Long-Term Contracts

• Data-Driven Persuasion 

• Belief-Robust Contracts 

• A Revealed Preference Approach to Multidimensional Screening

• Risk Alignment

Published and forthcoming papers:

• Simple Incentives and Diverse Beliefs. Theoretical Economics,  Accepted.

• Data-Driven Contract Design, with Justin Burkett. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 221, October 2024.

• Statistical Uncertainty and Coarse Contracts, with Justin Burkett. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 220, September 2024. 

• Robust Incentives for Risk. Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 109, December 2023.

Old papers:

Dynamic Contracting with an Optimistic Agent [email me for a draft if you're interested]