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Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
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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.
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Sandeep Baliga
Professor Baliga researches how organizations should delegate power and authority to incentivize effort and innovation.
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Erika Deserranno
Professor Deserranno studies the selection, recruitment and motivation of workers in private and public organizations.
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Ronen Gradwohl
Professor Gradwohl’s current research focuses on issues of privacy and transparency in strategic interactions.
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Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis
Jorg Spenkuch, Philipp Tillmann, American Journal of Political Science, 2018 |
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Strategic Pricing with Rational Inattention to Quality
Daniel Martin, Games and Economic Behavior, 2017 |
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Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks
Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, American Economic Review, 2017 |
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Political Economy of Redistribution
Daniel Diermeier, Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin, Econometrica, 2017 |
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Incentives in Landing Slot Problems
James Schummer, Azar Abizada, Journal of Economic Theory, 2017 |
Managerial Economic And Decision Sciences News
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Don’t Waste Your Time Watching Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings Jorg Spenkuch, Fortune, September 04, 2018 |
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Culture Matters: How Leadership Enables Toxicity And Makes Way for Mediocrity Dylan Minor, Forbes, July 16, 2018 |
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B-School Bulletin: Mind-Blowing Solutions To The 9 Hardest Startup Problems Egorov_Georgy, Poets & Quants, June 17, 2018 |
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Why Facebook Shared Data With China’s Huawei Ronen Gradwohl, Inside Sources, June 17, 2018 |
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TBS’ ‘Last O.G.’ reflects ex-offender struggle. Employers more willing to hire than most think Dylan Minor, USA Today, June 16, 2018 |
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