SERGEI SEVERINOV
Department of Economics, University of British Columbia
Email:sseverinov@gmail.com
997-1873 East Mall, Vancouver,
British Columbia, V6T1Z1
Tel: (604) 822-5661
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Economics), STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Theory of Organization and Information Transmission.
Main Advisor: Professor B. Douglas Bernheim, Department of Economics
M.S. (Mathematics), STANFORD UNIVERSIT
B.A. (Middle Eastern Studies), MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, Moscow, Russia
MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Game Theory
Microeconomics
Industrial Organization
Law and Economics
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Department of Economics, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor, current
Courses Taught: Microeconomics II (PhD.), Intermediate Microeconomics, Topics in Microeconomics
Past Positions:
Department of Economics, University of Essex, U.K.
Professor, 2007-2009
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Visiting Associate Professor, 2007
Associate Professor of Business Administration, 2007
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, 2002-2007
Courses Taught: Managerial Economics (Daytime MBA Program), Competitive Analysis (Daytime MBA and Cross Continent Executive MBA Programs), Game Theory (PhD level)
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Elective course, Executive MBA Class of 2006.
Member of the Academic Council of Duke University, 2006-2007
National Fellow and John Campbell Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2004-2005
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998-2002
Assistant Professor
Courses Taught: Advanced Microeconomic Theory (graduate),
Intermediate Microeconomics, Industrial Organization.
PhD student advising: Yasunari Tamada (Wisconsin Economics) Nataliya Kuribko, (Duke Economics)
EDITORIAL
Member of the Advisory Board - Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002-2006.
Associate Editor - Berkeley Journals in Theoretical Economics, 2006-.
PUBLISHED and FORTHCOMING PAPERS
[1] ‘Competition Among Sellers Who Offer Auctions Instead of Prices’, with Michael Peters, Journal Of Economic Theory, 75[1], July 1997, pp. 141-179.
[2] ‘On Information Sharing and Incentives in R&D’, Rand Journal of Economics, 32, Autumn 2001, pp. 542-564.
[3] ‘Bequests as Signals: An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle’, with B. Douglas Bernheim, Journal of Political Economy, 111, August 2003.
[4] ‘Internet Auctions with Many Traders’, with Michael Peters, Journal Of Economic Theory 130, 2006, pp. 220-245.
[5] ‘Bequests as Signals: Implications for the Fiscal Policy’, Journal of Public Economics 90, 2006. pp. 1995-2008
[6] ‘Screening when Not All Agents Are Strategic: Does A Monopoly Need to Exclude?’, with Raymond Deneckere, RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2006, pp. 816-841.
[7] ‘The Value of Information and Optimal Organization’, Rand Journal of Economics, 39[1], Spring 2008,pp. 238-265
[8] ‘Individually Rational, Balanced-Budget Bayesian Mechanism and Surplus Allocation’, with Grigory Kosenok, Journal of Economic Theory 140, 2008, pp. 126-161
[9] ‘An Efficient Solution to the Informed Principal Problem’, Journal of Economic Theory, 141[1], July 2008, pp. 114-133
[10] ‘Mechanism Design with Partial State Verifiability’, with Raymond Deneckere, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2008, 487-513.
[11] ‘Ascending Double Auction’, with Michael Peters, Economic Theory, November 2008, Vol 37(2), pp. 281-306.
[12] ‘Investment Tournaments’, with Michael Schwarz, Journal of Labor Economics, October 2010 Vol. 28 (4), pp. 893-922.
[13] ‘Strategic Information Acquisition and Transmission’, with Rossella Argenziano and Francesco Squintani, American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2016, Vol. 8(3), pp. 119-155.
[14] 'Disclosure and Legal Advice', with Yeon-Koo Che, American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2016, Vol. 9(2), pp.188-225.
[15] 'Optimal and Efficient Mechanisms with Asymmetrically Budget Constrained Buyers', with A. Boulatov, Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, Vol 127 (May), pp.155-178.
[16] 'Investment and
Information Acquisition', with Dimitri Migrow, American
Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2022, Vol. 14 (3), pp. 480-529.
[17] 'Screening, Signaling
and Costly Misrepresentation', with Raymond Deneckere
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, Vol. 55(3), pp. 1334-1370.
[18] 'Irrigation Intensity,
Environmental Conditions and Crop Production in the Rio Grande- Bravo Basin
(Mexico)', with Nicolas Sisto, Modernizing
Irrigation and Drainage for a new Green Revolution. Transactions of the 23rd
Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage - Abstract
Volume, 2017, Question 60 and 61, p.228, Mexico City.
[19] 'The potential
benefits of reallocating water among agricultural users', with Nicolas Sisto, ANDULI Revista Andaluza de Ciencias Sociales, 2022, 22, pp. 165-179.
[20] 'Growing Crops in
Arid, Drought-Prone Environments: Adaptation and Mitigation', with Nicolas Sisto and Gilberto Aboites
Manrique, Hydrology, 2022, 9, 129.
[21] ‘Who Wants to be an Auctioneer?’, with
Gabor Virag, forthcoming at Journal of Economic Theory
WORKING PAPERS
‘Optimal Screening with
Costly Misrepresentation’, with Raymond Deneckere
(2017)
‘Mechanism Design with
Ex-Post Individual Rationality and Budget Balance’, with Joon Soon (2018)
‘Dating and Divorce’, with
Li Hao (2018)
‘Screening under Fixed Cost
of Misrepresentation’, with Yin Chi (Terry) Tam (2018)
‘Influence Activities, Efficiency
and Promotion in Organizations’ (2011)
‘Sustaining Cooperation
through Delegation" (2009)
‘Methods of
Multidimensional Screening,’ (2008)
‘Sequential Auctions with
Budget Constraints,’ with Thomas Jeitschko (2010)
CURRENT PROJECTS
1. ‘Multidirectional Signaling’, with
B. Douglas Bernheim.
2. ‘Optimal Debate and
Trial Structure’, with Raymond Deneckere
3. ‘Signaling in Multiple
Dimensions’, with Raymond Deneckere
4. ‘Networks, Hubs and
Competition in the Airline Industry’, with Raymond Deneckere.
6. ‘Censorship and
Sponsorship’, with Timofyi Mylovanov
7. ‘Sequential Contracting
with Endogenous Timing’.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
North American Meetings of
the Econometric Society, 1998-2001, 2003, 2004. 2006, 2007
European Meetings of the
Econometric Society, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002.
Canadian Economic Theory
Conference, 1997-2006,2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
World Congress on Game
Theory, 2004,2008.
Society for Economic
Dynamics, 2004.
Society for Economic
Design, 2006
International Conference on
Game Theory, Stony Brook, 2000
NSF/NBER Decentralization
Conference, 2002-2005.
NSF General Equilibrium
Conference, 2003.
Law and Mechanism Design
Conference (2002),
Midwest Economic Theory
Conference (2001), (2002)
Workshop on the Economics
of Transition (1996) organized by the Social Science
Research Council, New York,
held in St.Petersburg,
Russia
Stanford Institute for
Theoretical Economics (2003).
WZB Conference on Economics
and Psychology (2003).
NSF/CEME Conference on
Mathematical Economics (2005)
Duke-Northwestern-Texas
Industrial Organization Conference (2006)
Lisbon UECE Meetings on
Games and Applications (2011, 2012)
Public Economic Theory
Conference (2013)
SEMINARS
Stanford University(2001,
2004), University of Pennsylvania (1998, 2004), University of Toronto (1998,
2003), Berkeley (2005), Duke University (1998, 2002), Vanderbilt University,
University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WZB Centrum,
Berlin, Germany
Stockholm School of
Economics, Stockholm, Pennsylvania State University (1998,2005),
Graduate School of Business
at Stanford University (2001, 2004), University of Florida- Gainesville (2001),
Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Moscow (2002),
UCLA (2002, 2004), Caltech
(2002), University of Southern California (2002),
Fuqua School of Business at
Duke University, London School of Economics (2002),
Oxford University (2002),
McGill University (2003, 2004), London Business School(2003), University Carlos
III-Madrid (2003), University Autonoma–Barcelona
(2003), University of Arizona (2003, 2005), Northwestern University
(2003), UC Berkeley (2005), Georgetown University (2005), University of
Montreal (2005), Simon Fraser University (2006), University of Bern,
Switzerland (2006), University of Texas-Austin (2006), Essex University, UK
(2006), Leicester University, UK (2006), Michigan State University (2007); UBC
(2007), Yahoo Research (2007, 2008), Mannheim (2009), Erasmus (2009), UC Santa
Barbara (2011);
REFEREE
Review of Economic Studies
American Economic Review
Econometrica
Journal of Political
Economy
Rand Journal of Economics
Journal of Economic Theory
Games and Economic Behavior
Economic Theory
Canadian Journal of
Economics
International Economic
Review
Journal of Economics and
Management Strategy
Journal of Law, Economics
and Organization
Journal of Industrial
Economics
Economic Journal
Economics Letters
Mathematics of Social
Sciences
Manchester School
National Science Foundation
Book reviews: Academic
Press, Addison Wesley Longman
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Excellence in Teaching
Award, Executive MBA Class of 2006, Fuqua School of Business
National Fellowship, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, 2004-2005
Trent Foundation Research
Grant (2004),
C.I.R.E.Q. Visitor, McGill
University (2004),
Center for International
Business Education and Research Travel Grants (2003-2006),
Sloan Foundation Fellowship
for Dissertation Research in Economics (1997-1998)
John Olin Fellowship in Law
and Economics, Stanford Law School (summers 1997,1998)
Fellow, Stanford Center on
Conflict and Negotiation (1996)
Stanford University
Fellowship (1993-1994)
MEDIA
Ad hoc commentator on
business and economic issues, Voice of America Radio, Washington, D.C., in
Russian. 2005-2006.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
-Yahoo Research, Senior Research
Scientist, 2008
·
Research
Assistant, 1994-1995
- KPMG Peat Marwick,
San Francisco, CA, Consultant, Corporate Transactions Group,
1996