Alessandro Pavan

Contact:

Department of Economics 

 Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Arthur Andersen Hall 329
 Evanston, Illinois 60208-2600
 Tel. (847) 491-8266
 Fax. (847) 491-7001
 alepavan@northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae:

• Resume 

Research Interests:

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

• Research Summary 

Work in Progress:

• Information Acqusition and Welfare 

           (With Gianluca Femminis and Luca Colombo)

• Competition in Two-Sided Markets with Dispersed Information -- coming soon

           (With Bruno Jullien)

Submitted Papers:

The work indicated by _*_ has been / is supported by the National Science Foundation through the grants SES-0518810 and SES-0721048

• Managerial Turnover in a Changing World (NEW VERSION)

           (With Daniel Garrett)

•  Dynamic Managerial Compensation: On the Optimality of Seniority-based Schemes           

          (With Daniel Garrett)

•  Many-to-Many Matching Design

          (With Renato Gomes)

• Dynamic Mechanism Design: Incentive Compatibility, Profit Maximization and Information Disclosure 

           (With Ilya Segal and Juuso Toikka) -- Completely NEW version! It supersedes the old (finite-horizon) version circulated under the same title as well as the notes on

"Infinite Horizon Mechanism Design" and my solo paper Long-Term Contracting in a Changing World

• Preempting Speculative Currency Attacks: Robust Predictions in a Global-Game with Multiple Equilibria  

           (With George-Marios Angeletos) -- supersedes the paper "Robust Predictions in Global Games with Multiple Equilibria: Defense Policies against Currency Attacks."

• Beauty Contests and "Irrational Exuberance": A Neoclassical Approach(*) 

           (With George-Marios Angeletos and Guido Lorenzoni)

Publications:

•   Truthful Revelation Mechanisms for Simultaneous Common Agency Games  

           (With Giacomo Calzolari) -- AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: MICROECONOMICS, 2(2), May 2010, 132-190

• Policy with Dispersed Information(*) 

           (With George-Marios Angeletos) -- JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, 7(1), March 2009, 11_60.

•  Sequential Contracting with Multiple Principals 

           (With Giacomo Calzolari) -- JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 144(2), February 2009, 503-531.

• On the Use of Menus in Sequential Common Agency 

           (With Giacomo Calzolari) -- GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, Vol. 64(1), September 2008, 329-334

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

           (With George-Marios Angeletos) -- ECONOMETRICA, Vol. 75(4), July 2007, 1103-1142.  Supplementary Material 

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

           (With George-Marios Angeletos and Christian Hellwig) -- ECONOMETRICA, Vol. 75(3), May 2007, 711-756.  Supplementary Material 

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

           (With George-Marios Angeletos) -- JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, Vol. 5(3), May 2007, 585-593 -- NBER version with mathematical appendix 

•  On the Optimality of Privacy in Sequential Contracting 

           (With Giacomo Calzolari) -- JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 130(1), September 2006, 168-204 -- This work builds on a previous paper "Optimal Design of Privacy Policies."

•  Monopoly with Resale 

           (With Giacomo Calzolari) -- RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol. 37(2), Summer 2006, 362-375 --  Supplementary Material 

•  Signaling in a Global Game: Coordination and Policy Traps 

           (With George-Marios Angeletos and Christian Hellwig) -- JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Vol. 114(3), June 2006, 452-485.  Supplementary Material 

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

           (With Marco LiCalzi) -- EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Vol. 49, January 2005, 227-250 -- Accepted when EER was JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities 

           (With George-Marios Angeletos) -- AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Vol. 94(1), May 2004, 91-98 (Papers and Proceedings)

Teaching:

• Graduate:  Information Economics (414-3)

             Monday and Thursday 5.00-7.00 (Spring Quarter). For course information refer to My Blackboard 414-3 webpage. 

• Third Year Econ PhD Seminar (501)

             Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:00 (Spring Quarter).

Links:

·  Northwestern Library

·  On-Line Economic Journals: IDEAL Library

·  On-Line Economic Journals: SPRINGER Library

·  On-Line Economic Journals: JSTOR Library

·  On-Line Economic Journals: ELSEVIER Library

·  EconLit

·  Dictionary

 

Last update: March, 2012