Shahir Safi

• I am an Assistant Professor of Economics (Tenure-Track) at the New Economic School (NES).

• I completed my PhD at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona School of Economics),
  Salvador Barberà (Advisor) and Andreu Mas-Collel (Dissertation Chair).

Research Interests: APPLIED MICRO THEORY, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, PUBLIC ECONOMICS.

• I am an applied theorist with a focus on networks theory and information economics. 

• My research has covered topics like referrals, organizational management, contract theory, and public policy interventions (e.g., subsidies for firms in R&D networks of inter-firm collaborations).

• I am especially interested in understanding firm's behavior and public policy interventions.

Research Output: 2 publications, 4 R&Rs, 3 under submission, and 2 works in progress.

• Listen Before You Link: Optimal Monitoring Rules for Communication Networks,
  Games and Economic Behavior, May 2022, 133: 230-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.03.004

• Targeting in Networks Under Costly Agreements, with Mohamed Belhaj and Frédéric Deroïan,
  Games and Economic Behavior, July 2023, 140: 154-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.03.003

• Strength of Weak Experts: Knowledge vs Communication, Management Science, revision requested.

• When Information and Communication Are Both Costly, Games and Economic Behavior, revision requested.

• Link by Consensus: Formation of Community Networks, Journal of Mathematical Economics, revision requested.

• From Parenting to Hiring: Parental Investment in Non-Cognitive Skills, Social Networks, and Firms' Hiring Policies, with Yves Zenou and Sebastiano Della Lena, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, revision requested.

• Who Gets Hired? The Strength of Weak Ties and the Signalling of Strong Ties, with Yves Zenou, under submission.

• Risky Links and Safety Measures: A Theory of Network Regulation, with Luiz Carpizo, under submission.

• Scarcity of Soft Skills, under submission.

• Collaboration Networks for Risk-Averse Agents, with Yann Bramoullé, in progress.

• Job Market Signalling Via Social Ties, in progress.
  * Winner of 2019 LAGV prize for "Best paper by a Young Researcher" in the ASSET conference.