Ignacio Esponda
Economics Department
office: (212) 998-0872
iesponda@stern.nyu.edu
www.stern.nyu.edu/~iesponda
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business, July 2006-present
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Economics,
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, 2001-2006
Dissertation: Robust Equilibrium Analysis in Games with Uncertainty
Principal co-advisers: Prof. Susan Athey and Prof. Ilya Segal
MA in Economics, 1999
BA summa cum laude in Economics, 1998
Research Fields
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial
Organization
Research
“Information Aggregation, Learning, and Non-strategic Behavior in Voting Environments,” joint with Demian Pouzo, in progress.
“Endogenous Participation and Local Market Power in Highway Procurement,” joint with Liran Einav, in progress.
“Learning to Trade Under Adverse Selection: Experimental Evidence,” joint with Emanuel Vespa, in progress.
“Rationalizable Conjectural Equilibrium in Games with Structural Uncertainty,” 2008.
“Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection,” American Economic Review, 98(4): 1269-91, September 2008.
“Information Feedback in First Price Auctions,” RAND Journal of Economics, 39: 491-508, Summer 2008.
Robust
Equilibrium Analysis in Games with Uncertainty,
“The Economics of Illegal Activities,” in
Gasparini, L. (ed.)
“On the Spontaneous Emergence and Sustainability of Market Trade,” Annals of the Argentine Association of Political Economy, 1999.
Honors and Awards
The Bradley Graduate and Post Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2006
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Award, Economics,
Best Second Year Paper, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2003-04
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2001-2004
Best Undergraduate Thesis (co-recipient), Universidad de San Andrés, 1998
Best GPA Award Class of 1998, Universidad de San Andrés
Teaching
Bounded Rationality in IO – undergrad elective at Harvard (Spring 2009)
Firms and Markets – MBA core course at Stern (Fall 2006, 2007, 2008)
TA at Stanford: Intermediate Microeconomics for Professor Liran Einav, Spring 2004
Lecturer at U. de San Andrés: Principles of Economics; Intro. to Game Theory, 2000-01
Professional Activities
Referee: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Theoretical Economics, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
Member: American Economic Association, Econometric Society
Invited Seminars and Conferences
Penn State (2008), SEA Annual Meetings (2008), UCL Workshop on Biased Beliefs (2008), University of Wisconsin (2008), University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign (2008), CAPCP Conference on Auctions and Procurements (2008), Yale (2007), European Meetings of the Econometric Society (2007), Stony Brook Game Theory Festival (2007), University of Maryland (2007), National University of Singapore (2007, 2008), MIT/Harvard theory seminar (2006), Harvard IO workshop (2006), University of Iowa (2006), Universidad de San Andres (2006, 2007, 2008), North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (2006), Berkeley HAAS (2006), UC San Diego (2006), UCLA (2006), University of Pennsylvania (2006), Stern NYU (2006), Princeton University (2006), UT Austin (2006), Asociación Argentina de Economía Política (1999), Jornadas Anuales de Economía del Banco Central del Uruguay (1999)
Dissertation Committee and References
Professor Susan Athey (co-principal advisor), 617-496-1939, athey@fas.harvard.edu
Professor Ilya Segal (co-principal advisor), 650-724-4905, ilya.segal@stanford.edu
Professor Liran Einav, 650-723-3704, leinav@stanford.edu
Professor Jonathan Levin, 650-723-5962, jdlevin@stanford.edu
updated January 2009