Welcome!
I am an associate professor of economics at University Bocconi, research fellow at CEPR and affiliate at IGIER.
Research Interests: game theory, mechanism design, information economics, corporate finance, epidemiology
Email: nenad.kos@unibocconi.it
Working Papers
Pricing and Consumer Surplus in Monopoly with Product Design
(with Kyungmin Kim)
Robust Product Design and Pricing
(with Kyungmin Kim)
Time-varying Cost of Distancing: Distancing Fatigue, Holidays and Lockdowns
(with Christoph Carnehl and Satoshi Fukuda)
Value of Information and Fairness Opinions in Takeovers
(with Mehmet Ekmekci)
Publications
Signaling Covertly Acquired Information
(with Mehmet Ekmekci), Journal of Economic Theory, 214 (2023).
Epidemics with Behavior
(with Christoph Carnehl and Satoshi Fukuda), Journal of Economic Theory, 209 (2023).
Optimal Pricing, Private Information and Search for an Outside Offer
(with Sarah Auster and Salvatore Piccolo), RAND Journal of Economics, 52 (2021), 758-777.
Optimal Selling Mechanisms Under Moment Conditions
(with Vinicius Carrasco, Vitor Farinha Luz, Matthias Messner, Paulo Monteiro and Humberto Moreria), Journal of Economic Theory, 177 (2018), 245-279.
The Design of Ambiguous Mechanisms
(with Alfredo Di Tillio and Matthias Messner), The Review of Economic Studies, 84 (2017), 237-276.
Just Enough or All: Selling a Firm
(with Mehmet Ekmekci and Rakesh Vohra), AEJ: Micro, 8 (2016), 223-256.
Information in Tender Offers with a Large Shareholder
(with Mehmet Ekmekci), Econometrica, 84 (2016), 87-139.
Asking Questions
Games and Economic Behavior, 87 (2014), 642-650.
Incentive Compatibility in Non-quasilinear Environments
(with Matthias Messner), Economic Letters, 121 (2013), 12-14.
Extremal Incentive Compatible Transfers
(with Matthias Messner), Journal of Economic Theory, 148 (2013), 134-164.
Communication and Efficiency in Auctions
Games and Economic Behavior, 75 (2012), 233-249.
