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Jeffrey C. Ely

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HOW TO CONTACT ME

Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

My office is Room 3203 in Arthur Andersen Hall

Telephone: 847-491-8208
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: jeffely@northwestern.edu


CURRICULUM VITAE-Feb 2010 (pdf)

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RESEARCH

I write for the blog
Cheap Talk with Sandeep Baliga. You might like my blog entries on The Effect of the Death Penalty on Plea Bargains, Why Placebos Work, Who Should Anchor a Relay Race, Why You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks, Soliciting Opinions , or Second Serves in Tennis.

Below you will find

Working Papers

New "Mechanism Design Without Revenue Equivalence" ( Juan Carlos Carbajal)

New "Torture" (joint with Sandeep Baliga)

New "Adverse Selection and Unraveling in Common-Value Labor Markets" (joint with Ron Siegel)

Revised "Kludged"

"Mnemonomics: The Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Memory Kludge" (joint with Sandeep Baliga)

"A Note on Unawareness " (joint with Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo)

Papers Appearing in Journals

New "Critical Types" (joint with Marcin Peski) Forthcoming Review of Economics Studies. Here is a web appendix with some additional material.

"Sniping and Squatting in Auction Markets" (joint with Tanjim Hossain) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 1, (2009).

"Common Learning" (joint with Martin Cripps, George Mailath, and Larry Samuelson) Econometrica 76, pp. 909-933 (2008).

"When is Reputation Bad?" (joint with Drew Fudenberg and David Levine), Games and Economic Behavior 63, pp. 498-526 (2008).

"Foundations of Dominant Strategy Mechanisms" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung), Review of Economic Studies 74, pp. 447-476 (2007)

"Evolution of Preferences" (joint with Eddie Dekel and Okan Yilankaya) Review of Economic Studies 74, (2007)

 "Hierarchies of Belief and Interim Rationalizability" (joint with Marcin Peski) Theoretical Economics 1, pp. 19-65 (2006)

 "Evolution in Bayesian Games I: Theory" (joint with Bill Sandholm)Games and Economic Behavior 53, pp. 83-109 (2005).

"Belief-free Equilibria in Repeated Games" (joint with Johannes Horner and Wojciech Olszewski), Econometrica 73, pp. 377-415 (2005).

"Implementation with Near-Complete Information" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung), Econometrica 71, pp. 857-871 (2003).

"Bad Reputation" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, pp. 785-814 (2003).

"Local Conventions" Advances in Theoretical Economics 2(1) (2002).

"Nash Equilibrium and the Evolution of Preferences" (joint with Okan Yilankaya), Journal of Economic Theory 97 (2001) 255-272.

"A Robust Folk Theorem for the Prisoner's Dilemma" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), Journal of Economic Theory 102 (2002) 84-105.

Papers Appearing in non-Journals
"Kludged", review in NAJ Economics, 14:1

"Bad Reputation" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), review in NAJ Economics, 4:3

Shirking Papers

"A Comparison of the Bush-Paulson Plan and a Plan Based on Mortgage Guarantees."

"Revenue Equivalence without Differentiability Assumptions" (The material in this paper has been incorporated into "Characterizing Incentive Compatibility Without Revenue Equivalence" joint with Juan Carlos Carbajal)

"A Note on Unawareness"

"Characterizing Stable Outcomes of Perturbed Markov Chains"

"Rationalizability and Approximate Common-Knowledge"

"Correlated Equilibrium and Trigger Strategies with Private Monitoring"

"Ex Post Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung)

"Efficient and Dominance Solvable Auction Mechanisms with Interdependent Valuations" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung)

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