Research
Faculty
Below is a subset of publications in the past five years. For brevity, author lists include only Penn State faculty and students.
Nageeb Ali: “The Political Economy of Zero-Sum Thinking” Econometrica, 2024
Nageeb Ali: “Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature” American Economic Review, 2023
Nageeb Ali: “Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information” Econometrica, 2023
S. Nageeb Ali: “Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing” Review
of Economic Studies, 2023
Nageeb Ali, Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel: “How to Sell Hard Information” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
Nageeb Ali: “Communication and Cooperation in Markets” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022.
Nageeb Ali and Chloe Tergiman: “Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory” American Economic Review, 2021
Nageeb Ali: “Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020
Nageeb Ali: “Power and Predictability in Legislative Bargaining” Review of Economic Studies, 2019
Kalyan Chatterjee, Miaomiao Dong, and Tetsuya Hoshino: “Bargaining and Information Acquisition”, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024.
Kalyan Chatterjee, Konstantin Guryev, and Tai-Wei Hu: “Bounded memory in a changing world: Biases in behaviour and belief” Journal of Economic Theory, 2022
Kalyan Chatterjee: “Attack and Interception in Networks” Theoretical Economics, 2022
Kalyan Chatterjee, Pathikrit Basu, and Tetsuya Hoshino: “Repeated Coordination with Private Learning” Journal of Economic Theory, 2020
Kalyan Chatterjee: “Extremist platforms: political consequences of profit-seeking media” International Economic Review, 2020.
Nima Haghpanah: “Buying From a Group” American Economic Review, 2024
Nima Haghpanah and Ron Siegel: “Pareto Improving Segmentation of Multi-product markets” Journal of Political Economy, 2023
Nima Haghpanah: “Sequential Mechanisms with ex-post Individual Rationality” Operations Research, 2023
Nima Haghpanah and Ron Siegel: “The Limits of Multi-Product Price Discrimination” American Economic Review-Insights, 2022
Nima Haghpanah: “When is Pure Bundling Optimal?” Review of Economic Studies, 2021
Nima Haghpanah: “Full Surplus Extraction From Samples” Journal of Economic Theory, 2021
Nima Haghpanah: “Optimal multi-unit mechanisms with private demands” Games and Economic Behavior, 2020
Nima Haghpanah: “Efficient Computation of Optimal Auctions via Reduced Forms” Mathematics of Operations Research, 2019
Yuhta Ishii: “Reputation Building Under Uncertain Monitoring” Theoretical Economics, 2024
Yuhta Ishii: “Innovation Adoption by Forward Looking Social Learnings” Theoretical Economics, 2024
Yuhta Ishii: “Welfare Comparisons for Biased Learning” American Economic Review, 2024
Yuhta Ishii: “Belief
Convergence under Misspecified Learning: A Martingale Approach” Review of Economic Studies, 2023
Yuhta Ishii: “Learning Efficiency of Multi-agent Information Structures” Journal of Political Economy, 2023
Yuhta Ishii: “Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies” American Economic Review, 2022
Yuhta Ishii: “Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning” Econometrica, 2020
Vijay Krishna and Yu Awaya: “Panics and Prices” Journal of Economic Theory, 2024
Vijay Krishna and Yu Awaya: “Startups and Upstarts: Disadvantageous Information in R&D” Journal of Political Economy, 2021
Vijay Krishna and Yu Awaya: “Information Exchange in Cartels” Rand Journal of Economics, 2020
Vijay Krishna and Yu Awaya: “Communication and Cooperation in Repeated Games” Theoretical Economics, 2019
Ran Shorrer: “To Infinity and Beyond: A General Framework for Scaling Economic Theories” Theoretical Economics, 2024
Ran Shorrer and Chloe Tergiman: “Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024
Ran Shorrer: “Behavioral Economics in Education Market Design: A Forward-Looking Review” Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2023
Ran Shorrer: “Dominated Choices in a Strategically Simple College Admissions Environment” Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2023
Ran Shorrer: “Making it Safe to Use Centralized Marketplaces: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design” Management Science, 2021
Ran Shorrer: “The Limits of Incentives in Economic Matching Procedures” Management Science, 2021
Ron Siegel: “Judicial Mechanism Design” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023
Ron Siegel: “Equilibrium Existence in Games with Ties” Theoretical Economics, 2023
Ron Siegel: “Equilibrium Existence in Contests with Bid Caps” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2023
Ron Siegel: “Performance-Maximizing Large Contests” Theoretical Economics, 202
About Theory
The Microeconomic Theory group currently includes nine full-time faculty members. Members of this vibrant group have interests that cover a broad range of topics, including mechanism design, game theory, decision theory, political economy, networks, matching, and behavioral economics.
The group’s research advances theory and develops new applications. Its breadth is signified by recent publications on communication in repeated games, large contests, strategic learning in networks, bilateral and multilateral bargaining, among many more.
Activities include a seminar for external speakers, an additional workshop for internal and external speakers, a reading group on current research topics, and two annual theory conferences.