HOW TO CONTACT ME

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

My office is Room 3232 in Arthur Andersen Hall

Telephone: 847-491-8221
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: r-siegel@northwestern.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE (pdf)

RESEARCH

Working Papers:

• "Large Contests," with Wojciech Olszewski

• "Reallocation Costs and Efficiency," with Yuval Salant

• "Contests with Productive Effort."

• "Asymmetric Contests with Interdependent Valuations." Online Appendix.
  Matlab implementation for general distributions.
  Matlab implementation for independent distributions.
  Matlab examples with independent distributions.

Publications:

• "Asymmetric Contests with Head Starts and Non-Monotonic Costs." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming. Online Appendix.
  Matlab implementation of all-pay auctions with head starts.
  Matlab examples.

• "Adverse Selection and Unraveling in Common-Value Labor Markets," with Jeffrey Ely. Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.

• "Matching and Price Competition: Beyond Symmetric Linear Costs," with Julio Gonzalez-Diaz. International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming.

• "Participation in Deterministic Contests." Econonmics Letters, September 2012.

• "Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments." American Economic Review, December 2010. Online Appendix.

• "All-Pay Contests." Econometrica, January 2009.

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