David Rahman

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appointment Associate Professor (tenured), Dept. of Economics, University of Minnesota. 2014–date 4–101 Hanson Hall, 1925 Fourth St. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455, US. (612) 625 3525 Research interests: economic theory, mathematical economics.

publications The Power of Communication American Economic Review, November 2014. But Who Will Monitor the Monitor? American Economic Review, October 2012. Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on electronic commerce (extended abstract). Mediated Partnerships, with Ichiro Obara. Econometrica, January 2010. Team Formation and Organization PhD Dissertation, UCLA, March 2005. Bidding in an Electricity Pay as Bid Auction, with Giulio Federico. Journal of Regulatory Economics, September 2003.

working papers The Dilemma of the Cypress and the Oak Tree

2014

Information Delay in Games with Frequent Actions

2013

Cooperative Institutions, with Piotr Evdokimov.

2014

Personality and Bargaining Power, with Piotr Evdokimov.

2014

Surplus Extraction on Arbitrary Type Spaces Theoretical Economics, revise and resubmit.

2012

Contractual Pricing with Incentive Constraints Journal of Economic Theory, revise and resubmit.

2012

Detecting Profitable Deviations, under revision for resubmission.

2011

Dynamic Implementation, preliminary draft.

2009

The Alternative to Equilibrium Existence

2008

education Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.

2005

M.Sc. in Finance with Distinction, Birkbeck College, University of London.

1996

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics, University of Warwick.

1995

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David Rahman

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previous employment Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota. 2007 – 2014 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, European University Institute.

Fall 2012

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III.

2006 – 2007

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego.

2005 – 2006

Teaching Assistant, Associate, Fellow, Department of Economics, UCLA. 2000 – 2003 Research Assistant, CASSEL, UCLA.

2000

Consultant, London Economics, Ltd., London, UK.

1996 – 1999

Research Assistant, CWA Consultants, London, UK.

1995 – 1996

awards Fernand Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute.

Fall 2012

Single Semester Leave, University of Minnesota.

Fall 2012

Eric Zitzewitz Award, University of Utah. Grant-in-Aid of Research, University of Minnesota.

2011 2010 – 2011

Incentives in Organizations, SES 0922253, National Science Foundation. 2009 – 2012 Grant No. SEJ 2004-07861, Spanish Ministry of Education.

2006 – 2007

Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA.

2003 – 2004

Departmental Fellowship, Department of Economics, UCLA.

1999 – 2003

Distinction and Departmental Prize, Birkbeck College.

1996

service Review panelist: National Science Foundation. Reviewer: AEJ Microeconomics; American Economic Review; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Berkeley Electronic Press (Economic Theory); Canadian SSHRC; Econometrica; Economic Journal; Economic Theory; Economics and Politics; Economics Letters; Games and Economic Behavior; International Economic Review; International Journal of Game Theory; International Journal of Industrial Organization; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Mathematical Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Managerial and Decision Economics; Mathematics of Operations Research; National Science Foundation; Oxford Economic Papers; Quarterly Journal of Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; Research Grants Council of Hong Kong; Review of Economic Dynamics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Industrial Organization; Social Choice and Welfare; Theoretical Economics.

Econometric Society Summer Meetings, 2014: committee member, theory. University of Minnesota: honors thesis advisor; junior recruitment committee member, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16; faculty research awards committee member, 2015/16. sites.google.com/site/davidrahmanwork

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classes University of Minnesota: Mathematical Economics (Spring 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, Fall 2011, Graduate and Undergraduate); Advanced Topics in Microeconomics (Spring 2009, 2014, 2015, Fall 2011, Graduate); Microeconomic Theory Workshop (2014/15, 2015/16, Graduate). Universidad Carlos III: Information and Incentives (Spring 2007, Graduate); Decision and Game Theory (Fall 2006, Undergraduate).

dissertations University of Minnesota, Advisor/Co-advisor, first job: Pei-Cheng Yu, dissertation in progress. Piotr Evdokimov, 2014. Department of Economics, ITAM. Zhang Guo, 2013. China Southern Airlines. Ph.D. Committee Member, first job: Christoph M¨ uller, 2010. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Christos Ioannou, 2009. Department of Economics, University of Cyprus. Hakan Inal, 2008. Economics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University. Chun Xia, 2008. Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong. Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona, Ph.D. Committee Member (External): Joan de Mart´ı, 2007. Departament d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

recent presentations 2015 January: ITAM, Mexico; February: University of Queensland, Australia; March: Booth School of Business, Chicago; April: Penn State University; November: Columbia University, UT Austin; December: Santiago de Chile (Economic Theory Workshop). 2014 February: Duke University; June: University of Minnesota (Econometric Society summer meetings); November: Sao Paulo (LAMES), R´ıo de Janeiro (Economic Theory Workshop); December: Cambridge University, CEMFI, UCL. 2013 April: UCLA; May: University of Minnesota; June: Yale (Cowles Theory Conference, Discussant); July: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Paris (SAET Conference); Stanford (SITE Conference); September: University of Wisconsin; October: UC Santa Barbara, University of Michigan (Midwest Economic Theory Conference); UC San Diego. 2012 January: Chicago (ASSA Winter Meetings); Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; IMDEA; Ecole Polytechnique; HEC, Paris; Paris School of Economics; Universidad Carlos III, Madrid; Universita Bocconi; February: UC Santa Barbara; March: Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; April: University of Miinesota; July: Gerzensee, Switzerland (CEPR European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory); September: Minneapolis Fed; October: EUI; November: Banach Institute, Warsaw (Conference in Honor of Leo Hurwicz); December: Humboldt University, Berlin (Mediation in Contract Theory); Toulouse School of Economics; University of Bonn. sites.google.com/site/davidrahmanwork

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2011 March: University of Utah (Winter Business Economics Conference, Discussant); April: Ohio State University (Decentralization Conference); MIT/Harvard (Theory Workshop); University of Minnesota; May: Ravello, Italy (Personnel Economics Conference); June: San Jose (ACM EC11 Implementation Theory Workshop); St. Louis (Econometric Society NASM); Tel Aviv University (International Game Theory Conference); July: Stony Brook (International Conference on Game Theory); September: Indiana University; November: UC Berkeley. 2010 February: Minneapolis Fed; March: University of Iowa; April: Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; May: UCLA (Economics Alumni Conference); Northwestern University (Midwest Economic Theory Conference); Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (Corporate Finance Conference, Discussant); July: Gerzensee, Switzerland (CEPR European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory); September: UT Austin; Northwestern University; October: University of Warwick; University of Pennsylvania; November: Paris School of Economics (Roy Seminar); University College, London; University of Essex; University of Cambridge; University of Oxford; Tel Aviv University; December: University of Rochester. 2009 May: University of Toronto (Canadian Economic Theory Conference); University of Toulouse (Incentives Spring Workshop); June: Boston University (Econometric Society NASM); Paris School of Economics (Game Theory Seminar); University of Maastricht (Society for Economic Design Conference); University of Bonn (Information and Dynamic Mechanism Design Workshop); July: Stanford University (Electronic Commerce Conference); University of Bonn (Multidimensional Mechanism Design Workshop); August: Barcelona GSE (Econometric Society ESM); October: Ohio State University; November: NYU; Haas School of Business; December: Texas A&M University. 2008 April: University of Illinois (Midwest Economic Theory Conference); July: Northwestern University (World Congress of the Game Theory Society); October: Rutgers. 2007 February: University of Minnesota; University of Toulouse; University of Essex; Birkbeck College; March: UCLA (Conference in Honor of Joe Ostroy); May: Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona; September: Minneapolis Fed; NYU Stern; November: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2006 January: University of Chicago; February: ITAM; March: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; April: Caltech; June: University of Minnesota (Econometric Society NASM); October: Universitat Pompeu Fabra; December: Universita Bocconi. 2005 June: UCLA; October: University of Kansas (Midwest Economic Theory Conference); November: UCLA; December: UC San Diego.

February 19, 2016 sites.google.com/site/davidrahmanwork

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