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Department of Economics

 

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Vijay Krishna

Distinguished Professor of Economics &

Director of Graduate Studies

Joined the faculty in 1993

Ph.D., 1983, 

  Princeton University   

419 Kern Graduate Building

Phone: (814) 863 - 8543

Fax: (814) 863 - 4775

E-mail: vkrishna@psu.edu

Personal Homepage: http://econ.la.psu.edu/~vkrishna/index.htm

Office Hours for Fall 2008: by appointment

Curriculum Vita

Areas of Interest:

  • Industrial Organization
  • Economic Theory

Recent Publications:

"Contracting for Information under Imperfect Commitment," (with J. Morgan), Rand Journal of Economics, (forthcoming), 2008.

"Revenue and Efficiency Effects of Resale in First-Price Auctions," (with I. Hafalir), Journal of Mathematical Economics, (forthcoming), 2008.

"Asymmetric Auctions with Resale," (with I. Hafalir), American Economic Review, 2008.

"The Art of Conversation," (with J. Morgan), Journal of Economic Theory, 2004.

"Asymmetric English Auctions," Journal of Economic Theory,  2003.

Auction Theory, Academic Press, 2002.  (Table of Contents.)

"Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules: Some Amendments" (with J. Morgan), American Political Science Review, 2001.

"Convex Potentials with an Application to Mechanism Design" (with E. Maenner), Econometrica, 2001.

"A Model of Expertise" (with J. Morgan), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001.

"Multiple Object Auctions with Budget Constrained Bidders" (with J.P. Benoît), Review of Economic Studies, 2001.

Research in Progress:

  • Auctions
  • Communication in Games

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