Presenters
2022 Kansas Workshop in Economic Theory
May 6, 2022
Presenters
Rabah Amir
Rabah Amir is J. Edward Lundy Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa. His primary research areas are game theory and industrial organization. He held past positions at several universities worldwide, including SUNY at Stony-Brook, University of Manchester, CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain, and University of Arizona. His present research deals with theory and application of dynamic games in economics and finance, supermodular games, oligopoly theory, innovation and market structure, and some aspects of environmental and public economics.
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Lorenzo Bastianello
Lorenzo Bastianello is an Assistant Professor at the University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. His research interests include decision theory, game theory, and bargaining theory.
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J. Christopher (Chris) Brown
J. Christopher Brown is vice provost for Faculty Development at the University of Kansas. He is also a jointly appointed professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science and the Environmental Studies Program.
In his work in Faculty Development, Brown believes in supporting faculty at all stages in building rewarding careers. Brown has been honored with the George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award, the John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award, and the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. Brown earned a doctorate in geography from UCLA.
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Camelia Bejan
Camelia Bejan is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business of University of Washington, Bothell. She is an economic theorist whose research focuses on general equilibrium, financial economics, and cooperative game theory.
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Andrés Carvajal
Andrés Carvajal is an economic theorist, with emphasis in general equilibrium, financial economics and mathematical economics. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and was Co-Chair of the 2018 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
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Natalia Lazzati
Natalia Lazzati is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of UC Santa Cruz. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona. Natalia is a microeconomic theorist particularly interested in integrating theory and data. Much of her research focuses on models of positive interactions, which include the so-called supermodular games. She is currently working on projects that incorporate peer effects into consideration set models.
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Anqi Li
Anqi has broad interests in microeconomic theory, with areas including mechanism design, contract theory, political economy, and social network. Her recent works investigate the role of rational inattention in shaping political activities and outcomes. Dr. Li received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and is currently a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis and California Institute in Technology. Previously she was an assistant professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Jian Li
Dr. Jian Li is an assistant professor in economics at Iowa State University. Her primary research interests are in decisions under uncertainties and information economics. Her research studies decision models robust to environments where agents lack information about the underlying uncertainties or find it hard to precisely interpret new information. Previously, Dr. Li received her Ph.D. in economics at UC Berkeley and worked at McGill University.
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Keisuke Teeple
Keisuke is an Economics PhD candidate at UC Davis. His research interests include General Equilibrium and Behavioral Finance, and in 2022 he will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo.
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Cristián Ugarte
Cristián Ugarte is an economist interested (mainly) in the methodology of economics. His research focuses on the empirical content of economic models, with a special emphasis on choice theory. He is expected to complete his Ph.D. (c) in Economics at UC Berkeley and continue as a postdoc in the same department.
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Anne Villamil
Anne Villamil is a Professor of Economics at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on financial economics, with emphasis on firm finance, bankruptcy and enforcement, and the quantitative effects of institutions and policies on financial markets and development. She holds grants from the NSF, NCSA, and the Kauffman Foundation. Villamil and co-authors’ current research focuses on evaluating the effects of policy responses to financial crises and on the macroeconomic effects of alternative ways to finance public expenditures.
Villamil has been a research scholar at the IMF, European Central Bank, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austria, the National University of Singapore, the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, the University of Naples Federico II, and the Peter Moores Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is the Editor of the Annals of Finance, and an Associate Editor at Economic Theory, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.
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Yiran Xie
Yiran is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UCLA and expect to join University of Sydney in July 2022. Her primary field is econometrics. In particular, she is working on structural econometric analysis of games in social networks.
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Nicholas Yannelis
Nicholas Yannelis studied undergraduate economics at the Athens School of Economics and pursued graduate studies at the London School of Economics and at the University of Rochester where he obtained his PhD in economics under the direction of Lionel McKenzie. He 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.
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