Alex Gershkov

latitude 31 47' N and longitude 35 13' E
Department of Economics
Faculty of Social Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel
Tel +972 (0)2 5883252
E-Mail: alexg(at)huji(dot)ac(dot)il

Interests: Information Economics, Economic Theory, Microeconomics, Game Theory, and Mechanism Design.

Curriculum vitae


CV

Publications


1. "Optimal Voting Schemes with Costly Information Acquisition"  (joint with Balazs Szentes)
reviewed at NAJ Economics 2004 Vol 7, Journal of Economic Theory, (2009) Vol.144 (1), 36-68.

2. "Tournaments with Midterm Reviews"  (joint with Motty Perry)
Games and Economic Behavior, (2009) Vol.66, 162-190.

3. "Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach" (joint with Benny Moldovanu) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2009) Vol. 1(2), 168-198. Winner of the first AEA Best Paper Prize for AEJ: Microeconomics.

4. "Efficient Tournaments within Teams" (joint with Jianpei Li and Paul Schweinzer)
RAND Journal of Economics, (2009) Vol.40 (1), 103-119.

5. "Learning About The Future and Dynamic Efficiency"  (joint with Benny Moldovanu)
American Economic Review, (2009) Vol. 99 (4), 1576-1587 .

6. "Efficient Sequential Assignment with Incomplete Information"  (joint with Benny Moldovanu)
Games and Economic Behavior , (2010) Vol. 68 (1), 144-154 .

7. When Queueing is Better than Push and Shove (joint with Paul Schweinzer)
International Journal of Game Theory, (2010) Vol. 39 (3), 409-430 .

8. "Revenue Maximization in the Dynamic Knapsack Problem" (joint with Deniz Dizdar and Benny Moldovanu)
Theoretical Economics, (2011) Vol. 6 (2), 157-184 .

9. "Dynamic Contracts with Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection" (joint with Motty Perry)
Review of Economic Studies, (2012) Vol. 79 (1), 268-306 .

10. "Optimal Search, Learning and Implementation" (joint with Benny Moldovanu)
Journal of Economic Theory, (2012) Vol. 147, 881-909 .

11. "Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach" (joint with Benny Moldovanu)
International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2012) Vol 30(3), 283-286.

12. "On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation" (joint with Jacob K. Goeree, Alexey Kushnir, Benny Moldovanu and Xianwen Shi) Econometrica, (2013) Vol 81(1), 197-220. It supersedes Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation Revisited" (joint with Benny Moldovanu and Xianwen Shi), 2011.

13. "Non-Bayesian Optimal Search and Dynamic Implementation" (joint with Benny Moldovanu) Economics Letters, (2013) Vol 118, 121-125.

Working papers

 

14. "Dynamic Allocation and Learning with Strategic Agents" (joint with Benny Moldovanu and Plilipp Strack)
discussion paper, 2013

15. Optimal Mechanism Design without Money" (joint with Benny Moldovanu and Xianwen Shi)
discussion paper, 2013.

16. Formal vs. Informal Monitoring in Teams" (joint with Eyal Winter)
discussion paper, 2013.

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