2021 Presenters
Kansas Workshop in Economic Theory
Virtual Conference
May 8, 2021
Presenters
Robert M. Anderson
Robert M. Anderson is Coleman Fung Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research has ranged from the intersection between probability theory and logic, to game theory, general equilibrium theory, mathematical finance, and management of financial risk. [Program page]
Simon Atkinson
Simon Atkinson is the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Kansas and a professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. In addition to leading the KU Office of Research, he advocates for research on and off campus, implements research integrity requirements, and, through the KU Center for Research (KUCR), oversees the administration of research grants and contracts primarily for the Lawrence campus. Atkinson also has oversight of activities related to technology commercialization and business and industry outreach. [Program page]
Bernard Cornet
Bernard Cornet is Oswald Distinguished Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Kansas. His research interests are in Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Finance, and Optimization. [Program page]
Krishna Dasaratha
Krishna Dasaratha's research is primarily in microeconomic theory and focuses on social and economic networks, including diffusion processes, social learning, and network formation. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in March 2021 and is a postdoctoral fellow at the Warren Center at the University of Pennsylvania. [Program page]
Hülya Eraslan
Hülya Eraslan is Ralph O'Connor Professor of Economics at Rice University. She received her PhD in 2001 from University of Minnesota. Previously she held positions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of research interest include political economy, bargaining and voting theory and their application. She published numerous articles in leading economics journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies. She is an elected council member of Game Theory Society. She holds editorial positions at International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design and Social Choice and Welfare. [Program page]
John Higgins
John Higgins is a senior undergraduate at the University of Kansas majoring in Economics and Math. His research studies contagion on networks. He will be pursuing a PhD in Economics next year. [Program page]
Vasudha Jain
Vasudha Jain's research interests lie in game theory and the economics of information, with a particular focus on information design and strategic communication. She is expected to complete her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2021, after which she will join the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor. [Program page]
Dr. Silvana Krasteva
Dr. Silvana Krasteva is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Texas A&M University and holds a PhD in Economics from Duke University. Her research is in the area of industrial organization and public economics. Her recent work studies the role of leadership giving in fundraising for public projects. In particular, she explores how the form and the size of the leadership gift may be used to convey information to potential donors about the value of the public project. [Program page]
Parth Parihar
Parth Parihar is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton University’s Department of Economics. His work lies at the intersection of microeconomic theory and political economy. The focus of his recent papers is on the dynamic provision of public goods and how the design of decentralized contribution mechansisms affects delay, inefficiency, and observed patterns of contribution. Earlier work centered on legislative bargaining and models of spatial electoral competition. He will be joining the Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester as a post-doctoral fellow this summer. [Program page]
Francisco Poggi
Francisco Poggi is a Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University. His research focuses on mechanism design and the dynamics of information acquisition. He is interested in a broad range of topics such as research and development, innovation, law, and the design of incentives within organizations. He holds a BA and MA in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés and will join the University of Mannheim as Assistant Professor this summer. [Program page]
Tarun Sabarwal
Tarun Sabarwal is Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas, author of Monotone Games, and Founder and Director of the Center for Analytical Research in Economics. He has chaired and organized the Kansas Workshop in Economic Theory since 2009. He served as Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Programs in Economics, was awarded a Keeler Intra-University Professorship for interdisciplinary research in game theory and stochastic control and is an Economic Theory Fellow of SAET. [Program page]
Chris Shannon
Chris Shannon received a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Kansas, and a M.S. in Mathematics and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. She has been on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, since 1992. From 2012-2013, she was the Richard Merkin Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Caltech. She is currently the Richard and Lisa Steiny Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. [Program page]
Eran Shmaya
Eran Shmaya is a professor of Economics at Stony Brook University. He graduated from Tel Aviv University. He is interested in game theory and applied probability. [Program page]
Ludvig Sinander
Ludvig Sinander is a theorist with broad interests. He is currently completing a PhD at Northwestern, and will be starting a postdoc at Oxford & Nuffield College in fall 2021. [Program page]
Milena Stanislavova
Milena Stanislavova is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. She was Director of Graduate Studies in the Mathematics Department from 2012-2017. She is currently Chair of the Economics Department at KU. Professor Stanislavova received her M.S. in Mathematics from Sofia University in Bulgaria in 1993 and her PhD from the University of Missouri in 2000. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts before joining KU as Assistant Professor in 2002. Her major fields of study are Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations. More specifically, she is investigating the stability and long time behavior of special solutions of nonlinear equations of mathematical physics. Stanislavova's research deals with a variety of problems concerning solutions of a large class of PDE's, which can be viewed as dynamical systems on an infinite-dimensional space. Hamiltonian PDE's support coherent structures like solitary or periodic traveling waves, as well as wave trains and multi-pulses. These are very important objects when modeling physical processes and their stability is essential in practical applications. [Program page]
John Zhu
John Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Kansas. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at The Wharton School. He received his PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. He is interested in incentive theory. [Program page]