Professional Experience

Education

Publications

Game Theory Textbook

Teaching @ Columbia

Presentations

Academic Honors and Funding

Other

Languages

CV

Wouter Vergote

Department of Economics

Columbia University



Professional Experience

Current position

• 2017 – Present Lecturer in Discipline, Department of Economics, Columbia University


Past positions

• 2006 - 2019 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Economics, University Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium

• 2016 - 2019 Academic coordinator and faculty member of the Brussels School of Competition 

• 2013 - 2016 Guest professor KULeuven

• 2013 - 2014 Guest professor University of Antwerp

• 2011 - 2012 Economist, DG Competition, EU Commission (on leave)

• 2005 - 2006 Consultant, National Economic Research Associates (NERA)

• 2005 - 2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University 



Education                                                              

• 2005 Ph.D. in economics, Columbia University

• 1999 M.A. in Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

• 1997 B.A. (Licenciate) in Economics, Catholic univ. Leuven, Belgium


Publications


• Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition with Capacity Uncertainty‭ - ‬Feasting on Leftovers‭, ‬2023

with Robert Somogyi and Gabor Virag, Accepted @ Games and Economic Behavior 


• The impact of economic analysis on market definition in the context of digital platforms‭, ‬2023

CPI Antitrust, January 2023, with Nestor Duch-Brown 


• Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power, 2020Marketing Science.  Volume 39, p. 996-1015, (with P. Belleflamme and W. Lam).   
• Revisiting Stability in One-to-One Matching Problems, 2019Economic Theory Bulletin, 7: 59
• Antidumping as a signaling device under the WTO’s ADA non-disclosure clause, 2018Review of World Economics, 154: 649-673 (with A. Khatibi)
• The intricate tale of demand and supply of personal data, 2018Concurrences, N° 3-2018, Art. N° 87528, pp. 45-52 (with P. Belleflamme)
• Endogenous Network Formation in a Tullock Contest, 2017Mathematical Social Sciences, (with G. Grandjean and D. Tellone)
• Monopoly price discrimination and privacy: The hidden cost of hiding, 2016Economics Letters, volume 149, issue C, pages 141-144, (with P. Belleflamme)
• Dominance Invariant One-to-One Matching Problems, 2014International Journal of Game Theory, 43, 925–943, (with A. Mauleon, E. Molis & V. Vannetelbosch)
• Von Neumann-Morgenstern Farsightedly Stable Sets in Two-Sided Matching, 2011Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 6 (3), September.  (With A. Mauleon & V. Vannetelbosch)
• Collusion in Auctions: Between Bid Rotation and Efficiency, 2011Economics Bulletin,  Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 714-721
• Endogenous network formation in patent contests and its role as a barrier to entry, 2011Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59 (4), pages 529-551, December (With Marco Marinucci)
• Trade Policy in the Face of Price and Non-Price Strategies, 2011Portuguese Economic Journal,  Springer, vol. 10 (1), pages 3-21 (with A. Khatibi)
• On the role of Retaliation in Trade Agreements, 2008Journal of International Economics,  Volume 76, Issue 1, p. 61-77.(with A. Martin)

Game Theory Textbook

Together with my colleague Prajit Dutta I’m writing the second edition of: Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice, MIT Press. Expected publication: 2022.

First draft is available on request by sending me an e-mail at wrv13@columbia.edu

Teaching @ Columbia

Principles of Economics 

Intermediate Microeconomics

Microeconomic Analysis I

Industrial Organization

Game theory

Presentations

• 2019 IIOC Meetings, Boston

• 2018 ASSA meetings, Philadelphia

• 2017 Stony Brook Game Theory Conference

• 2016 CORE seminar,UCLouvain / PSE, Paris

• 2015 EARIE, Munich / ASSET, Granada

• 2014 Economics Seminar, University of Antwerp / Economics Seminar, University of Liege /25th Stony Brook Game Theory Conference, Stony Brook, New York / ASSET 2014, Aix en Provence

• 2013 European Doctoral Programme Jamboree (key note speaker)

• 2012 Games 2012, Istanbul / European Econometric Society Meeting, Malaga

• 2011 Tilburg University /Stony Brook International Game Theory Conference

• 2010 EARIE, Istanbul / Portuguese Economic Society, Faro / ASSET 2010, Alicante / CORE

• 2009 Journée de l’oligopole / CORE / PET 2009, Galway / ESTG 2009, Rome / FUNDP at Namur and Valencia

• 2008 Koç University, Turkey / Sabanci University, Turkey

• 2007 PET 2007 Vanderbilt University, Nashville / ETSG 2007, Athens / Second Workshop on Economic Design and Institutions (FUSL) 

• 2006 Séminaire Economique de Louvain, UCL / FUNDP University of Namur / CEREC, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis

• 2005 HEC Montreal; Université de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) / Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) / Maastricht / Namur, Bowdoin College

• 2004 University of Pennsylvania (Interuniversity Conference) / Columbia University IO Seminar

• 2003 VIII Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Leuven, Belgium



Academic Honors and Funding

• ARC, Université Saint-Louis, 2015-2020

• FNRS, ‘crédit aux chercheurs’ 2013-2014

• FNRS, ‘crédit aux chercheurs’ 2009-2011

• Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2001-2005

• 4th Year Wueller Teaching Award, Economics Dept., Columbia University, 2004

• Vickrey Prize: Second Best 3rd Year Paper, Economics, Columbia University, 2003

• Lewis Sanders Fellow for Excellence in Mathematics, Columbia University, 2002-2003

• BAEF Fellow (Belgian American Educational Foundation), 2000-2001

• National Scientific Fund Fellow, Flanders, 1999-2001



Academic Honors and Funding

• Referee for 

Journals: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Annals of Operations Research, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Economic Record, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of International Economics, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Louvain Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Design, Review of International Economics, Review of Network Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Theoretical Economics.


• Other: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the European Research Council, French National Research Agency and Oxford University Press


• In the media

-Radio Ciudad (Argentinian Public Radio): February 9, 2020

-Econometric study on parcel list prices, report prepared for the European Commission, 

(This study was featured in The Financial Times, the WSJ Europe and El Pais. See also

IPDIGIT for an article on the study)


• Consulting Experience

-Litigation support in the areas of product liability, antitrust, commercial damages, and securities 

-Economic and data analysis for product liability tort reform liability insurers’ obligations in asbestos-related bankruptcies 


Languages

Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Dutch (native)