Game theory Lab

Game theory Lab
Alexander Nesterov, Phd

What is going on?
How to find a corruptive auction using big data?
few, ongoing: Ivanov, Nesterov; Ianovski, Baklanov
Do doctors recommend drugs based on commission WITHOUT running proper tests first?
ongoing: Adaeva, Nesterov
Do men risk too much? Do women risk too little?
ongoing: Nesterov, Susin
How are students matched to schools and why?
few, ongoing: Bonkoungou, Nesterov
How to score athletes and candidates?
ongoing: Kondratev, Ianovski, Nesterov, Ditzenbacher

What do we do?
Game theory and applications
Mechanism design
studying (and creating) rules of the game (auctions, voting, etc.)
Market design
studying (and creating) markets to match supply and demand
Information design
studying (and creating) who knows what in the game
Miscellaneous:
Experiments in decision-making,
Computational social choice,
Machine learning for Economics
Mathematics

Who does all this?

Who does all this?
Game theory
cooperative: Yanovskaya, Kondratev, Ditzenbacher
non-cooperative: Panov, Sorokin, Baklanov
Mechanism design
auctions: Kalinin, Sorokin (theory); Nesterov, Ivanov (empirics)
voting: Kondratev, Ianovski
fair division, etc.: Sandomirskiy, Ditzenbacher
Market design
matching markets: Bonkoungou, Nesterov, Kondratev
Information design: Sorokin, Sandomirskiy
Miscellaneous:
Experiments in decision-making: Zhuravleva, Nesterov, Adaeva, Susin,
Computational social choice: Ianovski,
Machine learning for Economics: Ivanov, Baklanov
Mathematics: Gavrilovich, Osipov, Kalinin

Who can you work with?
Full-time employees (4)
Postdocs (4)
Part-time, including former full-timers (4)
Phd-students (2)