2014 Presenters

2014 Kansas Workshop on Economic Theory

Presenters. May 3, 2014

	Yuhta Ishii Yuhta Ishii is currently completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University.  His research interests lie broadly in game theory, economic theory, and market design.  He will spend the upcoming year at the Department of Economics at Yale University as a Postdoctoral Associate, and will join the Department of Economics at Instituto Tecnològico Autònomo Mèxico (ITAM) as an assistant professor in 2015.
	Juan Block Juan Block is currently completing his PhD in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis and will be joining University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cambridge-INET Institute in the fall. His research interests include repeated games, reputations and self- referential games. He recently works on strategic interactions where agents are able to imperfectly observe opponents’ intentions.
	Ahmad Peivandi Ahmad Peivandi is a PhD candidate at the Economics Department, Northwestern University. He will join Georgia State Business School next year.  His main research interest is Microeconomics Theory, with special interest in market design, mechanism design and matching theory. In his recent paper, he develops and applies game theoretic tools to characterize robust and efficient mechanisms to settle credit default swap contracts after a default.
	Antonio (Tony) Doblas-Madrid Antonio (Tony) Doblas-Madrid is currently an assistant professor of economics at Michigan State University. He received his Licenciatura from the Universitat de Barcelona in 1999, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2005. His general areas of interest include financial economics, international economics, and macroeconomics. More specifically, he has written on the topics of international financial crises, credit markets, and asset price bubbles.
	Rabah Amir Rabah Amir is J. Edward Lundy Professor of Economics at University of Iowa. His  present research deals with theoretical and applied aspects of oligopoly behavior, innovation and market structure; the theory and application of dynamic games in economics and finance; methodological aspects of supermodularity and economic complementarity and applications; and some aspects of environmental and public economics.
	Rakesh Vohra Rakesh Vohra is George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor of University of Pennsylvania.  He is a leading global expert in mechanism design. His economics research in mechanism design focuses on the best ways to allocate scarce resources when the information required to make the allocation is dispersed and privately held. His work has been critical to the development of game, auction and pricing theory and spans such areas as operations research, market systems and optimal pricing mechanisms.
	Nicholas Yannelis Nicholas Yannelis is currently: the Editor of Economic Theory, the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa, the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Manchester, and the Emeritus Commerce Distinguished Alumni Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois. His current research is focused on general equilibrium, experimental economics, and game theory with asymmetric information.
	Bernard Cornet Bernard Cornet is the Oswald Distinguished Professor in Microeconomics of University of Kansas. His research interest is in  Microeconomic Theory, Financial Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Dynamics and Optimization.
	Joshua Cherry Joshua Cherry is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He joined the faculty in 2011, after completing his PhD in Economics at the University of Michigan. His research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, information economics and experimental economics. His most recent work has studied the role of information in long term strategic interactions.
	Eric Hoffmann Eric Hoffmann is a 5th year PhD student at the University of Kansas, where he specializes in Economic Theory. His interests include games of strategic complements and substitutes, global games, Bayesian games, stability of equilibria, and learning in games. While at KU, he has also had the opportunity to be head instructor for both the Microeconomic Theory and the Game Theory courses.