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.
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