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    • Jonathan A. Libgober

      Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Southern California

      Welcome to my website!

       

      I am an economist studying information economics and mechanism design. I am interested in both pure theory and applied questions.

       

      I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard in May 2018.

       

      References:

      Drew Fudenberg, Eric Maskin, Jerry Green, Ben Golub

       

      Reach out

      libgober@usc.edu

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    • About Me

      Information Economics, Pure and Applied

      I am a theorist who works on mechanism design in settings where the acquisition, transmission or dynamics of information play a major role.

       

      I have studied dynamic pricing with consumer learning, researcher incentives, technology procurement and contracts for experimentation.

    • Working Papers

      Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing

      with Xiaosheng Mu (New version! January 2019)

      Constant price paths deliver the optimal profit guarantee when a seller does not know how buyers learn about a product.

      False Positives and Transparency

      (New Version! February 2019)

      Lack of transparency over research methods can induce biased claims. But it also creates an incentive to counteract the de-biasing of that research.

      Prototyping under Competition

      Available upon request; to be posted soon

      A principal wants to choose a project and allocate it competitively. In some cases, the ability to randomize across participants (but not across projects) is necessary for competition to be beneficial.

    • Works In Progress

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      The Informed Principal with Evolving Private Information

      A principal with a privately observed state designs a mechanism facing an agent with serial correlation. The interaction of the principal's and the agent's private information yields distortions away from first best, and in certain settings both are necessary.

      Contracting with Experiment Choice: Interpreting Failure

      A principal hires an agent to develop a new technology. The uncertainty about the productivity of the relationship creates a novel incentive conflict: the agent may prefer to keep changing projects in case failure causes the principal to become pessimistic too early.

    • Education

      Harvard University

      Ph.D. (2012-2018)

      Thesis Title: Information and Learning in Mechanism Design

       

      M.A. awarded 2014, field exams in Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization

      University of Chicago

      Undergraduate (2008-2012)

      S.B. in Mathematics (Departmental Honors, Paul R. Cohen award for top 5 record among seniors)

      A.B. in Economics (Departmental Honors, David S. Hu award for coursework and thesis)

      A.B. in Statistics

      Phi Beta Kappa

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