PhD Program

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory
• Political Economy
• Dynamic Games
• Mechanism Design
  

Dissertation Title / C0-Advisors

"Tournaments, Signaling, and Signaling Tournaments"

Professor Andrzej Skrzypacz

Professor Paul Milgrom

Research Interests

• Repeated Games
• Reputation Mechanisms
• Economics of Healthcare Financing and Services
• Pharmaceutical Drug Pricing and Policy 

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

"Theoretical Analyses of Incentives in Healthcare Services Performance Measurement and Pharmaceutical Drug Procurement"

Professor Robert Wilson

Professor Andrzej Skrzypacz

Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory
• Foundations of Game Thory
• Repeated Games

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Topics in Learning and Reasoning about Equilibria"

Professor Yossi Feinberg

Research Interests

• Foundations of Behavioral Economics
• Choice Theory
• Game Theory
• Microeconomic Theory

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

" Procedural, Axiomatic and Empirical Aspects of Choice from Lists"

Professor Robert Wilson

Professor Ariel Rubinstein

Professor Jeremy Bulow

Research Interests

• Expectations Formation and Learning
• Security Analysts
• Investor Behavior and Behavioral Finance
• Empirical Corporate Finance
• Market Microstructure

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Biased Reactions to Information and Learning in Analysts’ Forecasts"

Professor Paul Pfleiderer

Research Interests

• Theoretical and Empirical Corporate Finance
• Behavioral Finance
• Factors in Asset Pricing
• Market Microstructure Theory

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

"Essays in Financial Economics"

Professor Ilya A. Strebulaev

Professor Peter M. DeMarzo

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

• Consumer Judgment and Decision Making
• Unconscious Effects on Consumer Behavior
• Perceptual Effects on Judgment and Behavior

Dissertation Title / Advisor

" The Bold - Timid Divide in Consumer Choice "

Professor Itamar Simonson

Research Interests

• Supply Chain Managment
• Economics of Information Systems
• Revenue management
• Production and Service Management

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

"Demand Forecasting in Supply Chains and Economics of Open Source Software"

Professor Evan L. Porteus

Professor Tunay I. Tunca

Research Interests

• Perceptions of Justice
• Moral Emotions
• Psychological Consequences of Power and Status
• Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior
• Social Identity
• Intergroup Relations

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Thanks, But No Thanks: The Role of Deservingness in the Experience of Gratitude"

Professor Brian Lowery

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Research Interests

• Conformity and Dissent
• Uncertainty and Threat
• Self and Social Identity
• Attitudes Toward Inequality
• Nonconscious Influences on Attitudes and Behavior

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

" Self-Concept Uncertainty and Minority Opinion Expression"

Professor Dale Miller

Professor Christian Wheeler

Research Interests

• Organization theory
• Strategy
• Knowledge and Innovation
• Categorization

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Fitting in or Starting New?   An Analysis of Technological Innovation, Category Constraint, and the Emergence of New Categories in the Software Industry, 1985-2002 "

Professor William Barnett

Research Interests

• Organization Theory
• Strategy Creative Industries
• Social Network Analysis
• Small World Theory
• Organizational Identity

Dissertation Title / Advisor

" The Effect of Social Network Position on Novelty, Identity and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Film Industry, 1910-2005"

Professor Michael Hannan

Research Interests

• Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Strategic Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• International Business

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisors

" Oppositional Identity and Ideological Competition among U.S. Environmental Movement Organizations"

Professor William Barnett

Professer Hayagreeva Rao

Professor Walter Powell

Research Interests

• Political Economy
• Economics and Politics of Education
• Behavioral Economics and Politics
• Election Administration

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Essays in Empirical Political Economics"

Professor Dan Kessler

Research Interests

• Political Economics
• Behavioral Economics
• Public Finance

Dissertation Title / Co-Advisor

"Essays in Political Economics"

Professor David Baron

Professor Keith Krehbiel