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1989 | M.Sc. in Mathematics, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel | 1991 | PhD in Economics, University of Bonn | 1991 - 1995 | Assistant Professor, University of Bonn | 1992 - 1993 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 1995 | Habilitation, University of Bonn | 1995 - 2002 | Professor (C4), University of Mannheim | 1998 | Visiting Research Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA | Since 2002 | Professor (C4/W3) of Economics, University of Bonn | 2004 | Visiting Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA | 2005 | Visiting Professor, University College London, England, UK | 2009 | Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
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My main research has applied game theory and information economics to auctions [1,2], mechanism design [3,4,5], contests and matching [6,7,8] and voting [9,10]. These applications require an array of mathematical concepts, methods, and results from several fields such as variational and convex analysis, probability and mathematical statistics, differential geometry and combinatorial optimization. A common conceptual thread is the quest for mechanisms (i.e., “rules of the game”) that lead to desirable outcomes even if the agents (who are endowed with their own goals, resources and information) behave strategically. A major recent advance was establishing the equivalence between dominant strategy and Bayesian implementation in private values frameworks with one dimensional types [3]. The applied methods were borrowed from the mathematics of computed tomography.
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DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 15 “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems”
Principal Investigator, “Auction and Mechanism Design in Complex Environments”
ERC Advanced Grant “Dynamic Mechanism Design”
Principal Investigator
Bonn Graduate School of Economics
Speaker
DFG Cluster of Excellence “Hausdorff Center for Mathematics”
Principal Investigator
DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability ”,
Principal Investigator, project “Information aggregation and the role of transfers in mechanism design”
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[ 1] Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu
Learning About The Future and Dynamic Efficiency Am. Econ. Rev. , 99: (4): 1576--1588 Publisher: American Economic Association 2009[ 2] Philippe Jehiel, Benny Moldovanu, Ennio Stacchetti
How (not) to Sell Nuclear Weapons Am. Econ. Rev. , 86: (4): 814--829 Publisher: JSTOR 1996[ 3] Alex Gershkov, Jacob K. Goeree, Alexey Kushnir, Benny Moldovanu, Xianwen Shi
On the equivalence of Bayesian and dominant strategy implementation Econometrica , 81: (1): 197--220 2013 DOI: 10.3982/ECTA10592[ 4] Philippe Jehiel, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Benny Moldovanu, William R. Zame
The limits of ex post implementation Econometrica , 74: (3): 585--610 2006 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00675.x[ 5] Philippe Jehiel, Benny Moldovanu
Efficient design with interdependent valuations Econometrica , 69: (5): 1237--1259 2001 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00240[ 6] Heidrun C. Hoppe, Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela
The theory of assortative matching based on costly signals Rev. Econom. Stud. , 76: (1): 253--281 2009 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00517.x[ 7] Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela, Xianwen Shi
Contests for Status J. Pol. Econ. , 115: (2): 338--363 Publisher: [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, 1892- 2007[ 8] Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela
The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests Am. Econ. Rev. , 91: (3): 542--558 Publisher: JSTOR 2001[ 9] Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu
Content-based Agendas and Qualified Majorities in Sequential Voting Am. Econ. Rev. 2017[ 10] Alex Gershkov, Xianwen Shi, Benny Moldovanu
Optimal Voting Rules Rev. Econ. Stud. 2016
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• Journal of Economic Theory (Associate Editor, 2001 - 2009)
• Games and Economic Behavior (Associate Editor, 2002 - 2007)
• Econometrica (Associate Editor, 2002 - 2008)
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2001 | Max Planck Research Award | 2004 | Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts | 2004 | Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association | 2004 | Fellow of the Econometric Society | 2010 | ERC Advanced Investigator Grant |
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2002 | Econometric Society European Meeting, Venice, Italy | 2003 | Econometric Society US Meeting, Evanston, IL, USA | 2004 | World Congress, Game Theory Society, Marseille, France | 2005 | World Congress, Econometric Society, London, England, UK | 2008 | European Congress, Econometric Society, Milan, Italy | 2011 | Keynote Lecture, EARIE Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Christian Ewerhart (1999), now Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Oliver Kirchkamp (2001), now Professor, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Roman Inderst (2002), now Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Aner Sela (2002), now Professor, Ben Gurion University Beer Sheeva, Israel
Heidrun Hoppe (2004), now Professor, University of Hannover
Alex Gershkov (2007), now Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Paul Schweinzer (2008), now Professor, Klagenfurt University, Austria
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Thomas Kittsteiner (2002): “Applications of Mechanism and Auction Design to Partnership Dissolution and Sequential Sale”, now Professor, RWTH Aachen
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (2003): “Ex-post implementation: Impossibility, Characterizations and Mixed Bundling Auctions”,
now Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Xianwen Shi (2007): “Contests and auctions”,
now Associate Professor, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Alexander Westkamp (2009): “Matching Markets Essays on Matching Markets”,
now Associate Professor, University of Cologne
Konrad Mierendorff (2010): “Dynamic Mechanism Design”,
now Lecturer, University College London, England, UK
Nora Szech (2010): “Five Essays in Economic Theory”,
now Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Deniz Dizdar (2013): “Four Essays in Economic Theory”,
now Assistant Professor, University of Montreal, QC, Canada
Ann Kathrin Rosler (2014): “Matching and Information Acquisition”,
now Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Andreas Kleiner (2015): “Mechanism Design without Money”,
now Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
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- Diplom theses: 30, currently 1
- PhD theses: 15, currently 4
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