Department of Economics
         Northwestern University
         2001 Sheridan Road
         Arthur Andersen Hall 3239
         Evanston, Illinois 60208-2600
         Tel. (847) 491-8266
         Fax. (847) 491-7001
         alepavan@northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae:

• Resume 

Research Interests:

• Economic Theory, Information Economics, Global Games, Social Value of Information and Coordination, Mechanism Design; 

• On the Use of Menus in Sequential Common Agency 

• Efficient Use of Information and Social Value of Information (*) 

• Dynamic Global Games of Regime Change: Learning, Multiplicity and Timing of Attacks 

• Socially Optimal Coordination: Characterization and Policy Implications (*) 

•  On the Optimality of Privacy in Sequential Contracting 

•  Monopoly with Resale 

•  Signaling in a Global Game: Coordination and Policy Traps 

•  Tilting the Supply Schedule to Enhance Competition in Uniform-Price Auctions 

• Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities 

Submitted Papers

• Policy with Dispersed Information on Aggregate Shocks (*) 

•   Truthful Revelation Mechanisms for Simultaneous Common Agency Games 

• Defense Policies against Currency Attacks: on the Possibility of Predictions in a Global Game with Multiple Equilibria 

• Wall Street and Silicon Valley: a Delicate Interaction (*) 

Work in Progress:

•  Dynamic Mechanism Design: Revenue Equivalence, Profit Maximization and Information Disclosure 

•  The Dynamics of Distortions in Long term Contracting 

• On the Ineffectiveness of Interest Rate Defenses against Specualtive Currency Attacks

• The Role of Information in Competition in Two-Sided Markets

Teaching:

• Undergraduate:  Intermediate Microeconomics (310-1)

• Graduate:  Economic Theory and Methods (412-3)

• Third Year Econ PhD Seminar (501)