Prof. Dr. Benny Moldovanu
Prof. Moldovanu
| Abteilung Wirtschaftstheorie II, Universität Bonn, Lennéstr. 37, 53113 Bonn Tel: + 49-228-73 63 95 Tel: + 49-228-73 9242 (Sekretariat) Fax: + 49-228-73 7940 E-Mail: mold@uni-bonn.de |
Curriculum Vitae
| 1995 | Habilitation, University of Bonn |
|
1991 |
Ph.D. Economics (summa cum laude),
University of Bonn.
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| 1989 |
M.Sc. Mathematics (with distinction),
Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Advisor: Prof. Bezalel Peleg |
| 1986 | B.Sc. Mathematics (with distinction), Hebrew University Jerusalem |
Fall 2009 Visiting Professor of Ecomonics Northwestern University
| Spring 2005 | Visiting Professor of Economics, University College London |
| Fall 2004 | Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University |
| 2002-present |
Full Professor of Economics, University of Bonn |
| Spring 1999 | ENTER Research Professor, University College London |
| Fall 1998 | Visiting Research Professor, Northwestern University |
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1995-2002 |
Full Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim |
|
1991-1995 |
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bonn |
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1992-1993 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor |
| Spring 1992 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Tel-Aviv |
| Summer 1991 |
Landau Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Auszeichnungen
Advanced Grant, European Research Council, 2010 - 2015
Invited Lecture, European Congress of the Econometric Society in Milano, 2008
Invited Lecture, World Congress of the Econometric Society in London, 2005
Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected 2004
Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association, 2004
Invited Lecture, Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille 2004
Member of the Nordrhein - Westfalian Academy of Science
Invited Lecture, Econometric Society European Meeting, Venice 2002
Invited Lecture, Econometric Society US Meeting, Evanston 2003
Max Planck Research Prize, 2001
Landau Fellow, Jerusalem 1991
W.A. Jörn Prize for Best Dissertation, Bonn 1991
Research Grant, SFB Transregio, German Science Foundation, 2004-present
Research Grant, SFB 504, German Science Foundation, 1996-2002
Research Grant, SFB 303, German Science Foundation, 1989-1995
Council Member, European Economic Association, 2010-
Council Member, Game Theory Society, 2008 -
Co-Director of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (German Science Foundation Excellence-Initiative), 2006-
Co-Director of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (German Science Foundation Excellence-Initiative), 2006-
Member of the Fellows Nominating Commitee, Econometric Society, 2006
Associate Editor, Econometrica,
2002-
Associate Editor, Games and Economic Behavior
, 2002-2006
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory
, 2001-
Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association
, 2003-2005
Panel Member, Economic Policy
, 2000-2002
Coordinator of the European Symposium on Economic Theory, 2001-2006
Research Fellow, CEPR, 1999-
Organizer, Conference on Multidimensional Mechanism Design, Bonn 1994
Organizer, Conference on Auctions and Market Structure, Mannheim 2000
Organizer, Conference on Matching and Two Sided Markets, Bonn 2006
Chairman of scientific commitee, Econometric Society meeting, Madrid 2004
Member of scientific committee, Econometric Society meeting, Maastricht 1994, Stockholm 2003
Member of scientific committee, European Economic Association meeting, Toulouse 1997
Chairman of scientific committee, German Economic Association meeting, Magdeburg 2001
Member of scientific committee, German Economic Association meeting, Lugano 1991, Mainz 1999, Berlin 2000
Member of Economic Theory Panel, German Economic Association, 1998-
Auction design for large governmental projects (telecommunications, natural resources); Auction design for the electricity sector; Development of internet-based auction procedures for B2B e-commerce firms; Analysis of procurement mechanisms for large industrial firms; Freelance Consultant for CRA International, Boston USA; Member of scientific advisory board, Portum AG, Frankfurt.
Selected clients: General Electric, RWE, DaimlerChrysler, Trans-Elect, Fonterra, Dutch Government
Benny Moldovanu -Publikationen
"Learning About The Future and Dynamic Efficiency", (joint with Alex Gershkov), American Economic Review, 2009, vol. 99, Number 4, pages 1576-1588.
"The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals", (joint with Heidrun Hoppe and Aner Sela), Review of Economic Studies, 2009, vol. 76, issue 1, pages 253-281.
"Dynamic Revenue Maximization withHeterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism DesignApproach", (joint with Alex Gershkov), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2009, issue 2, pages 98-168.
"Efficient Sequential Assignment with Incomplete Information",(joint with Alex Gershkov), Games and Economic Behaviour 2010, vol. 68, issue 1, Pages 144-154.
"Coarse Matching with Incomplete Information", (joint with Heidrun Hoppe and Emre Ozdenoren), Economic Theory, forthcoming.
"Competing
Auctions with Endogenous Quantities", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen
Shi), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 141 (2008), 1-27.
"Ex-post
Implementation and Preference Aggregation via Potentials", (joint with
Philippe Jehiel and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn), Economic Theory, Vol. 37
(2008), No. 3, 469 - 490.
"Optimal
Seedings in Elimination Tournaments", (joint with Christian Groh, Aner Sela
and Uwe Sunde), forthcoming in Economic Theory.
"Contests for
Status", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi),
Journal of
Political Economy, Vol. 115 (2007), 338-363.
"Mixed Bundling
Auctions", (joint with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and Philippe Jehiel),
Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 134 (2007),
494-512 .
"Posterior
Implementation vs Ex-Post Implementation", (joint with Philippe Jehiel,
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and William R. Zame), Economics Letters Vol. 97
(2007), 70-73.
"The
Limits of Ex-Post Implementation", (joint with Philippe Jehiel, Moritz
Meyer-ter-Vehn and William R. Zame), Econometrica, Vol. 74, No. 3, May
2006, 585-610.
"Allocative and
Informational Externalities in Auctions and Related Mechanisms", (joint with
Philippe Jehiel), in The Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the
Econometric Society, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten
Persson, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
"Contest
Architecture", (with Aner Sela), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.
126, No. 1, January 2006, 70-97.
"License Auctions
and Market Structure", (with Heidrun Hoppe and Philippe Jehiel), Journal
of Economics and Managment Strategy, Vol. 15, No 2, Summer 2006, 371-396.
"Priority
Auctions and Queue Disciplines that Depend on Processing Time", (joint with
Thomas Kittsteiner), Management Science , Vol. 51, No. 2, 2005,
236-248.
"The Design of an
Efficient Private Industry", (joint with Philippe Jehiel), Journal of
the European Economic Association , Vol. 2, 2-3, April- May 2004, 516-525.
"An
Experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuations", (with
Oliver Kirchkamp), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 48 (1), July 2004,
54-85.
"Allocation Mechanisms and Post-Allocation Interaction" (with M.
Janssen), Auctioning Public Assets Analysis and Alternatives, M.
Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press, 2004.
An Analysis of the
European 3G Licensing Process (with E. Maasland), Auctioning Public Assets
Analysis and Alternatives, M. Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press,
2004.
Matching Markets, Auctioning Public Assets Analysis and
Alternatives, M. Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press, 2004.
"Partnerships, Lemons
and Efficient Trade", (with Karsten Fieseler and Thomas Kittsteiner),
Journal of Economic Theory 113 (2003), 223-234.
"An Economic
Perspective on Auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel), Economic Policy,
Vol. 36, April 2003, 271-308.
"Licensing Bertrand
Competitors", (with Aner Sela), International Journal of Industrial
Organization, Vol. 21, 2003, 1-13.
"The German UMTS
Design: Insights From Multi-Object Auction Theory", (with Christian
Ewerhart), ifo studies, 1/2001, 157-173, reprinted in Spectrum
Auction and Competition in Telecommunications, Illing, G.(ed.), MIT Press
2003.
"Bid
Costs and Endogenous Bid Caps", (with Arieh Gavious and Aner Sela), RAND
Journal of Economics, Vol. 33(4), Winter 2002, 709-722.
"How to Dissolve a
Partnership", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
158, 2002, 66-80.
"A Practical Approach to Multi-Attribute Auctions" (with
B. Burmeister, T. Ihde, T.Kittsteiner and J. Nikutta), DEXA Workshops
2002, 670- 674.
"Efficient Design
with Interdependent Valuations", (with Philippe Jehiel),
Econometrica 69(5), 2001, 1237-1259.
"The Optimal
Allocation of Prizes in Contests", (with Aner Sela), American Economic
Review, Vol 91(3), June 2001, 542-558.
"A
note of revenue maximization and efficiency in multi-object auctions", (with
Philippe Jehiel), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, 2001, No.2, 1-5.
"Auctions
with Downstream Interaction among Buyers" , (with Philippe Jehiel), RAND
Journal of Economics, 31 (4), 2000, 768-791.
"Multidimensional
Mechanism Design for Auctions with Externalities" (with Philippe Jehiel and Ennio
Stacchetti), Journal of Economic Theory 85(2), 1999, 258-294.
"Resale Markets and the Assignment of Property Rights" (with Philippe
Jehiel), Review of Economic Studies 66(4) 1999, 971-991.
"Goethe\'s Second-Price Auction" , (with Manfred Tietzel), Journal of
Political Economy, 106(4), 1998, 854-859.
"How (not) to Sell Nuclear
Weapons" (with Philippe Jehiel and Ennio Stacchetti), American Economic
Review 86(4), 1996, 814-829.
Are Stable Demand Vectors in the Core
of Two-Sided Markets? Some Graph-Theoretical Considerations, in Essays in
Honor of Reinhard Selten, Springer Verlag, 1996.
"Strategic
Non-Participation" (with Philippe Jehiel), RAND Journal of Economics
27(1), 1996, 84-98, reprinted in The Economic Theory of Auctions, Paul
Klemperer(ed), Edward Elgar 1999.
"The Production and Cost-Sharing of an
Excludable Public Good", EconomicTheory 7, 1996, 531-539.
"William Vickrey und die Auktionstheorie", Wirtschaftsdienst,
December 1996.
"Negative Externalities May Cause Delay in Negotiation"
(with Philippe Jehiel), Econometrica 63(6), 1995, 1321-1337.
"Cyclical Delay in Infinite Horizon Bargaining with Externalities" (with
Philippe Jehiel), Review of Economic Studies 62(4), 1995, 619-639.
"Order Independent Equilibria" (with Eyal Winter), Games and Economic
Behavior 9, 1995, 21-35.
Consistent Demands for Coalition Formation
(with Eyal Winter), in Essays in Game Theory in Honor of Michael
Maschler, Nimrod Megiddo ed., Spinger Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994.
"Core Implementation and Increasing Returns to Scale" (with Eyal Winter),
Journal of Mathematical Economics 23, 1994, 533-549.
"Price
Indeterminacy and Bargaining in a Market with Indivisibilities", Journal of
Mathematical Economics 22, 1993, 581-597.
"Coalition-Proof Nash
Equilibria and the Core in Three-Player Games", Games and Economic
Behavior 4, 1992, 565-581.
"Stable Bargained Equilibria for
Assignment Games without Side Payments", International Journal of Game
Theory 19, 1990, 171-191.
"A Note on a Theorem of Aumann and Dreze",
International Journal of Game Theory 18, 1989,
471-477.
NEW VERSION: "Optimal Search, Learning, and Implementation", (joint with Alex Gershkov), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2010.
NEW "Revenue Maximization in the Dynamic Knapsack Problem" (joint with Deniz Dizdar and Alex Gershkov), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2009
NEW "Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests
", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2008.
"Auction-Based Queue Disciplines", (joint with Thomas Kittsteiner), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2003.
"A Stylized Model of the German UMTS Auction", (with Christian Ewerhart),discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2003, in revision for European Economic Review
.
"The European UMTS/IMT-2000 License Auctions", (with Philippe
Jehiel),discussion paper, University of Mannheim, 2001.
The contents of
the paper appear in "An Economic
Perspective on Auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel), Economic
Policy,Vol. 36, April 2003, pp. 271-308.
'Understanding Strategic Interaction- Essays in Honor of Reinhard
Selten", W. Albers, W. Güth, P. Hammerstein, B. Moldovanu and E. van Damme
(editors), Springer, Berlin 1996
"Regeln
für eine Welt unvollkommener Märkte", Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
17.10.2007
"Für ein Plätzchen am Himmel der Funker", Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, 29.07.2000
"Der Spieltheoretiker", Die
Zeit, 27.07.2000
"Kleine Verfahrensfehler mit großen Folgen",
Financial Times Deutschland, 06.04.2000
"Auktionen",
Wirtschaftswoche, 04.11.1999
"William Vickery und die
Auktionstheorie", Wirtschaftsdienst, 12.1996
