I am a Senior Lecturer in Finance in the Department of Economics and Finance at La Trobe University, Australia. My research interests lie in the areas of mechanism design, with a particular emphasis on the multidimensional screening models, theory of bounded rationality, and evolutionary game theory.
Articles
Auctions with Opportunistic Experts (with Svetlana Danilkina), Topics in Theoretical economics (2007)
In this paper we revisit the first price and the second price sealed-bid auctions. However,...
Market Niche, Flexibility and Commitment (with Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait), The Manchester School (2007)
We study a market-entry game in which the potential entrants coordinate their actions (i.e. enter...
Snobs and Quality Gaps, The B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics (2006)
The paper characterizes the optimal provision of quality by a monopolist facing a population of...
Bounded rationality: static versus dynamic approaches, Economic Theory (2005)
Two kinds of theories of boundedly rational behavior are possible. Static theories focus on stationary...
Equilibrium selection in coordination games: Why do dominated strategies matter?, Economics Bulletin (2004)
In this paper I illustrate by an example that strictly dominated strategies may affect the...
Books
Partial Differential Equations in Economics and Finance (2007)
This book reviews the basic theory of partial differential equations of the first and second...
Multidimensional Screening (2005)
The book brings into a focus all necessary mathematical knowledge to understand the economics of...
Unpublished Papers
Non-monotone incentives in a model of coexisting hidden action and hidden information (2006)
In this paper I consider a model of coexisting moral hazard and adverse selection,...
A Note on Risk Aversion and Evolution to Equilibrium in 2x2 Coordination Games (with Murali Agastya) (2004)
In this note we point out the effect of risk-aversion on both the speed of...
Presentations
A generalized optimal control problem (with Svetlana Danilkina), 25th Australian Economic Theory Workshop (2007)
In this paper we generalize the Pontryagin maximum principle for the case of an optimal...