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Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
How Auctions Help Solve Some of the World’s Most Complicated Problems
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Kellogg Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences Department
The faculty is on the leading edge of fundamental research that has real-world impact around the globe. Topics include auctions, game theory, voting, information aggregation, and strategic behavior within and between organizations. This research is taught in economics and political science departments across the world and is in leading PhD textbooks.
Faculty in the MEDS department have won numerous research awards and have been elected to memberships of prestigious societies such as the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Multiple Nobel-prize winners conducted fundamental research here. Additionally, the journal Games and Economic Behavior was founded in the MEDS department.
Nobel Legacy
Former Kellogg Professor Paul Milgrom’s Nobel Prize demonstrates a legacy of innovation in the MEDS department.
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Edoardo Teso
Professor Teso works on issues related to campaign finance, public sector employment, and individual preferences.
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Erika Deserranno
Professor Deserranno's research interests lie at the intersection between development and personnel economics.
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A Theory of Strategic Uncertainty and Cultural Diversity
Willemien Kets, Alvaro Sandroni, Review of Economic Studies, 2021 |
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If it is surely better, do it more? Implications for preferences under ambiguity
Peter Klibanoff, Soheil Ghili, Management Science, 2021 |
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Influencing Waiting Lists
James Schummer, Journal of Economic Theory, 2021 |
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Systemic Credit Freezes in Financial Lending Networks
Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, James Siderius, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2021 |
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Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity
Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin, Maria Petrova, Journal of Public Economics, 2021 |
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Comparison of Decisions under Unknown Experiments
Andrew S Caplin, Daniel Martin, Journal of Political Economy, 2021 |
Managerial Economic And Decision Sciences News
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Trust Usually Helps Communities Thrive. During a Pandemic, Not So Much. Georgy Egorov, Kellogg Insight, August 12, 2021 |
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Good and Bad Olympic Nationalism Nancy Qian, Project Syndicate, July 29, 2021 |
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The Economic Fundamentals of Chinese Communism’s Successes and Failures Nancy Qian, Project Syndicate, July 05, 2021 |
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Do Diverse Hiring Committees Choose More Diverse Leaders? Nicola Persico, Kellogg Insight, July 01, 2021 |
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China’s Three-Child Policy Won’t Help Nancy Qian, Project Syndicate, June 03, 2021 |
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