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| 2003 - 2004 | Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA | | 2007 | PhD in Economics, University of Bonn | | 2007 - 2014 | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | | 2011 | Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA | | 2014 | Visiting Professor, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA | | Since 2014 | Professor (W3), University of Bonn |
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My research is concerned with the theoretical analysis of the strategic interaction of individuals in existing institutions. In particular, I study the ability of institutions to aggregate information that is dispersed among many agents, with “markets” and “elections” as the main examples. For instance, regarding markets, I continue working on a setting in which a seller is searching for buyers to bid in an auction when there is value uncertainty [1]. An example would be a seller of a company who searches for investors who have only partial information about the company’s profitability. I also work on elections in which an interested party can affect elections either by manipulating the number of voters or their information. For example, I consider an interested party that contacts voters sequentially in the hope of finding a veto and I study how an interested party can affect voting outcomes through strategic information release.
In future work on markets, I plan to continue working on search with learning in decentralized markets [2]. A concrete example of a decentralized market would be an online auction market (eBay) but the theory also applies to the market for housing, labor, and over-the-counter asset markets. Specifically, in contrast to my prior work, I want to consider an environment with large frictions and study how uncertainty about aggregate uncertainty affects market outcomes. For example, in labor markets, I plan to study how uncertainty about market conditions affects wage dispersion and unemployment duration through its impact on bargaining and search. A natural policy question would be to study how the release of public information can enhance efficiency, such as the publication of benchmarks and post-trade transaction terms in over-the-counter asset markets. I plan to test these theories about search and learning using available data from online auction markets, ideally also testing the impact of interventions. Regarding elections, I want to study elections in the context of corporate control (shareholder voting). Here, the management is naturally modelled as having biased preferences relative to shareholders while affecting important parameters of election. Outcomes of shareholder votes are often non-binding, which makes such elections similar to protests and polling.
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US National Science Foundation Grant “Information Aggregation in Decentralized Markets”
2011 - 2014
ERC Starting Grant “Information Aggregation in Elections”
2015 - 2020
DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability ”,
Project leader of the project “Decentralized Markets”
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[ 1] Stephan Lauermann, Asher Wolinsky
Search with adverse selection
Econometrica , 84: (1): 243--315
2016
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9969[ 2] Stephan Lauermann, Wolfram Merzyn, Gabor Virag
Learning and price discovery in a search model
conditionally accepted
Review of Economic Studies
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• Review of Economic Studies (Editorial Board, since 2015)
• Econometrica (since 2020)
• Theoretical Economics (since 2018)
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| 2011 | US National Science Foundation Grant “Information Aggregation in Decentralized Markets” (funding period 2011 - 2014) | | 2014 | ERC Starting Grant “Information Aggregation in Elections” (funding period 2015 - 2020) |
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| Seminars | | | 2015 and before | Yale, NYU, Harvard/MIT, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, University College London, European University Institute Florence, Helsinki University | | 2016 | University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University London, Essex, London School of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Boston College | | 2017 | Ohio State University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan |
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Bartley Tablante (2015): “Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets”,
now Senior Economist at Keystone Strategy
Qinggong Wu (2016): “Essays on Microeconomic Theory”,
now Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carl Heese, now Assistant Professor at Vienna University
Deniz Kattwinkel, now Assistant Professor at UCL
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- PhD theses: 5, currently 3
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