James Schummer

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

James Schummer
MEDS, Kellogg School of Management Phone: 847-491-5151
Northwestern University Fax: 847-467-1220
Evanston, IL 60208-2009, USA MEDS Phone: 847-491-3603

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Degrees

  • Ph.D. Economics, University of Rochester, 1997.
  • M.A. Economics, University of Rochester, 1995.
  • B.S. Finance, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992.

Positions Held

  • Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (w/tenure), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2004-present.
  • Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences , Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997-2004.
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Rochester, 1996-1997.

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

  • Kellogg Chair's Core Course Teaching Award, 2000.
  • University of Rochester Fellowship, 1992-1996.
  • University of Rochester Summer Research Grant, 1994.

Fields

  • Primary: Game Theory, Mechanism Design.
  • Secondary: Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Social Choice.

Teaching Experience

  • Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions (Kellogg, MBA), 1997-present.
  • Advanced Mathematical Methods (Kellogg, MBA), 1998.
  • Game Theory (Rochester, undergraduate), 1997.
  • Math Review Camp (Rochester, PhD), 1996.
  • Game Theory and Social Choice (Rochester, undergraduate), 1995.
  • Mathematical Economics (Rochester, PhD), teaching assistant, 1994, 1995.
  • Economic Justice (Rochester, undergraduate), teaching assistant, 1994.

Published Papers

  • "Mechanism Design without Money" (with R. V. Vohra), chapter in Algorithmic Game Theory, (eds. Nisan, Roughgarden, Tardos, Vazirani), Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
  • "On Ascending Auctions for Heterogeneous Objects" (with S. de Vries and R. V. Vohra), Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 132: 95-118.
  • "Almost-dominant Strategy Implementation: Exchange Economies," Games and Economic Behavior, 2004, 48: 154-170.
  • "Bribing and Signalling in Second-Price Auctions" (with P. Esö), Games and Economic Behavior, 2004, 47: 299-324.
  • "Auctions for Procuring Options" (with R. V. Vohra), Operations Research, 2003, 51: 41-51.
  • "Linear Programming and Vickrey Prices" (with S. Bikhchandani, S. de Vries, and R. V. Vohra) in Mathematics of the Internet: E-auction and Markets, B. Dietrich and R. Vohra eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002.
  • "Strategy-proof Location on a Network" (with R. V. Vohra), Journal of Economic Theory, 2002, 104: 405-428.
  • "Constrained Egalitarianism: A New Solution for Claims Problems" (with Y. Chun and W. Thomson), Seoul Journal of Economics, 2001, 14: 269-298.
  • "Manipulation through Bribes," Journal of Economic Theory, 2000, 91: 180-198.
  • "Eliciting Preferences to Assign Positions and Compensation," Games and Economic Behavior, 2000, 30: 293-318.
  • "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency for Small Domains of Preferences over Public Goods," Economic Theory, 1999, 13: 709-722.
  • "Strategy-proofness vs. Efficiency on Restricted Domains of Exchange Economies," Social Choice and Welfare, 1997, 14: 47-56.
  • "Two Derivations of the Uniform Rule and an Application to Bankruptcy," with W. Thomson, Economics Letters, 1997, 55: 333-337.

Unpublished Papers

  • "Credible Deviations from Signaling Equilibria" (with P. Esö).
  • "An Ascending Vickrey Auction for Selling Bases of a Matroid" (with S. Bikhchandani, S. de\,Vries, and R. V. Vohra).
  • "Unilateral Bribing in Auctions" (with P. Esö, preliminary work).

Refereeing

  • I continually average slightly over one report per month, refereeing for the following journals. American Economic Review; Annals of Operations Research; Econometrica; Economic Design; Economic Theory; Games and Economic Behavior; Information Processing Letters; International Journal of Game Theory; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Management Science; Mathematical Social Sciences; The National Science Foundation; Operations Research Letters; Review of Economic Studies Social Choice and Welfare.

Recent Conference Presentations

  • Eighth International Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, 2006.
  • Conference on Economic Design, Bodrum, Turkey, 2006.
  • Conference of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Budapest, 2005.
  • Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseilles, 2004.
  • SED Conference on Economic Design, Mallorca, Spain, 2004.
  • Seventh International Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, 2004.
  • Decentralization Conference, Duke University, 2004.
  • European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Stockholm, 2003.
  • North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Northwestern, 2003.
  • Sixth International Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Cal. Tech, 2002.
  • Public Economic Theory Conference, Sorbonne, Paris, 2002.
  • Electronic Market Design Conference, Daghstul, Germany, 2002.
  • Canadian Economic Theory Meetings, Montreal, 2001.
  • XIV Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Italy, 2001.

Supervised PhD students

  • Sidhartha Gordon, 2004 (placement: Université de Montreal and CORE)

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