2016 Presenters
Gerelt Tserenjigmid
Gerelt Tserenjigmid is currently completing his PhD in economics at Caltech, and he will join the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in fall 2016. He studies microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, and behavioral economics. His recent research focuses on history-dependent preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and stochastic choice, and using decision theoretic tools he tries to understand connections between well-documented behavioral phenomena and common features of preferences in economics and psychology.
Ryota Iijima
Ryota Iijima is currently completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University. His research interest is game theory, decision theory, and networks. He will spend the upcoming year at Cowles Foundation as a postdoctoral research associate, and will join the Department of Economics at Yale as an assistant professor in 2017.
Anne-Christine Barthel
Anne-Christine Barthel is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at Ripon College. She received her PhD from the University of Kansas in 2014, and her research interests include monotone comparative statics, games of strategic complements and substitutes and their applications.
Alex Citanna
Dr. Alex Citanna's core interests reside within general equilibrium analysis of financial markets with frictions. As part of this agenda, he has published work on fiscal and monetary policy and financial innovation with incomplete markets, and more recently competitive market design with asymmetric information. He has also studied matching markets, and financial markets with limited commitment. He is currently a Co-Editor at the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
Daniela Puzzello
Professor Puzzello’s research and teaching interests are in economic theory, monetary economics and experimental economics. Her work focuses on the efficiency of allocations in environments with decentralized trade. Her recent research integrates theory and experiments to study social norms of exchange and welfare improving trading institutions. Puzzello’s research has been published in leading economic journals. She is an associate editor of Economic Theory and an editor of The B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.
Marcus Berliant
Marcus Berliant is a mathematical economist at Washington University in St. Louis who works primarily in urban economics and public finance. After graduating from Cornell University as a College Scholar with a BA in nothing in particular, he received an MA in statistics from the University of California - Berkeley with Betty Scott as his adviser, and then a Ph.D. in economics with Gerard Debreu as his adviser. His first job was at the University of Rochester, a cold and distant outpost, where he interacted with many faculty including Lionel McKenzie and Bill Riker, both of whom had a big impact on his research. Moving to Washington University in 1994, he received the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards in 2000 and 2002 for his work with graduate students, and was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2005. Uncle Marcus is fond of dogs and his graduate students, 38 of whom have completed their doctorates and one of whom was his boss.
Tommaso Denti
Tommaso Denti is currently completing his PhD in economics at MIT. His research interests lie broadly in the economics of information. He will spend the upcoming year at the department of economics at Princeton University as a postdoctoral research associate, and will join the department of economics at Cornell as an assistant professor in 2017.
Eric Hoffmann
Eric Hoffmann joined the Department of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at West Texas A&M University in 2016, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kansas in 2015. His research interests include game theory, industrial organization, and learning in strategic environments, particularly in cases of incomplete information. His interests also include testing these theories in experimental settings. He is currently working on issues concerning global games, especially in the strategic substitutes setting.