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-Colell (Dissertation Chair).

• CV • Research Statement • Teaching Dossier.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applied Micro Theory • Networks • Development Econ • Political Econ

• I am an applied theorist whose research centers on social relationships:
  from social networks to socioeconomic factors shaping life outcomes to parent-child interactions.

• My work has covered topics like strength of ties in the labor markets (with Yves Zenou),
  political stability on networks (with Matthew O. Jackson and Konstantin Sonin),
  polarization of ideas (with Debraj Ray), meritocracy (with Garance Genicot),
  intergenerational mobility (with David Austen-Smith), and child development.

RESEARCH OUTPUT: 4 publications, 2 R&Rs, 7 working papers, and 4 works in progress.
Revisions requested (x2)

• How Parents and Firms' Hiring Policies Affect Labor Market Outcomes, with Yves Zenou and Sebastiano Della Lena, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, revision requested.

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

Working papers (x7) - click on the title for a recent draft

• Stable Governments and Coup in Political Networks,” with Matthew O. Jackson and Konstantin Sonin.

• The Transparency of Opportunity, with Garance Genicot.

• Inherited Opportunity: Mobility, Technical Change and Class Polarization, with David Austen-Smith.

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

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

• Contracting through Collective Organizations, with Shingo Ishiguro.

• Inclusive Networks, with Kemal Kivanc Akoz, Daniil Fomichev, and Arseniy Samsonov.

Works in progress (x4)

• Policy Aggregation and Polarization, with Debraj Ray, in progress.

• A Theory of Strategic Sovereignty, with Sultan Mehmood and Leonard Wantchekon, in progress.

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

• Learning to Parent, in progress.

Publications (x4)

• 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

•  “When Information and Communication are Both Costly,” Games and Economic Behavior, June 2026, 158: 488–504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2026.04.004

• Link by Consensus: Formation of Community Networks, Journal of Mathematical Economics, October 2026, 126: 103283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2026.103283