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EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor ITAM, August 2015 to present Assistant Professor Department of Economics, University of Rochester, August 2008 to July 2015 VISITING POSITIONS Visiting Scholar Department of Economics, UCLA, January 2013 to August 2013 Visiting University Lecturer Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, January 2010 to July 2010 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University 2003-2008 Primary Adviser: Ilya Segal M.Sc. in Economics (with Distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002-2003 B.A. in Economics, University of Latvia, 1998-2002 Visiting Student, Queen Mary, University of London, Spring 2001 TEACHING Doctoral courses: ECO521 Advanced Economic Theory (Rochester: 2011, 2012, 2014 Spring, 2014 Fall) ECO471 Modern Value Theory I (Rochester: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) PhD10 Advanced Course in Economic Theory (Cambridge: 2010) Undergraduate courses: Microeconomía Avanzada II: (ITAM: 2016x2, 2017) ECO207H Honors Intermediate Microeconomics (Rochester: 2014) ECO274 Market Design (Rochester: 2009, 2011, 2012) 2B P4 Economics of Matching (Cambridge: 2010) Master’s Courses: Microeconomía Financiera I (ITAM: 2015, 2016) Microeconomía Financiera II (ITAM: 2016, 2017) SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS 2006 Kohlhagen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Stanford) 2005 Best Ph.D. Candidacy Paper Sean Buckley Prize (Stanford) 2003 Stanford First and Second Year Graduate Fellowship 2002 The British Chevening Scholarship !1

PUBLICATIONS “Dynamic Project Selection,” accepted at the Theoretical Economics (with Arina Nikandrova). "Conjugate Information Disclosure in an Auction with Learning,” accepted at the Journal of Economic Theory (with Arina Nikandrova). “Tight and Loose Coupling in Organizations," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Research Articles), 2016, DOI: 10.1515/bejte-2015-0081. “Efficient Dark Markets,” Economic Theory, 2015, Vol. 59, Issue 3, 605-624. “The Negative Value of Public Information in the Glosten-Milgrom Model,” Economics Letters, 2014, Vol. 124, Issue 2, 207-210. “Designing Order-Book Transparency in Electronic Communication Networks,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, Vol. 12, Issue 3. “Workup,” Review of Economic Design, 2013, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 37-71. “Sequential Negotiations with Costly Information Acquisition,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, Vol. 82, 522-543. “Communication, Innovation, and Growth,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (Contributions) (2010), Article 3. “Schelling's Spatial Proximity Model of Segregation Revisited”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, Issues 1-2 (2007), pp. 1-24 (with Nicolaas J. Vriend). “Free Riding on Altruism and Group Size”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (2002) pp. 335-346 (with Jean Hindricks). BOOK MANUSCRIPT Lectures on Microeconomics: The Big Questions Approach, under contract with the MIT Press. INVITED TALKS 2017: SAET, LACEA-LAMES 2015: SAET 2014: Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad de Chile, ITAM, University of Sydney, Australian National University, University of Queensland 2013: Mid-West Economic Theory Conference, SAET, North American Summer Meetings of the Econometrics Society, UCSD (lunch talk), Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, UCLA 2012: Stanford, North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society 2012: Birkbeck 2011: Microsoft Research (Cambridge, UK), SAET 2010: Bertinoro Workshop on Frontiers in Mechanism Design, University of Cambridge, UCSD (lunch talk), Vassar College 2009: Mid-West Economic Theory Conference 2008: Chicago Booth (finance), Duke Fuqua Business School, Penn State, University of Rochester, University of Cambridge, Mid-West Economic Theory Conference PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of !2

Public Economics, Management Science, Theoretical Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Adaptive Behavior, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, Review of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Game Theory, Review of Economic Design, Program Committee for Lionel W. McKenzie Memorial Conference, University of Rochester, 26 March 2011

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