Alexey Kushnir
Associate Professor of Economics
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- The Pennsylvania State University - Ph D (Economics) - 2010
- New Economic School - MA - 2006
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - MS (Physics and Mathematics) - 2006
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - BS (Physics and Mathematics) - 2004
Research
Economic Theory, Market and Mechanism Design, Network Theory, Matching Markets, AuctionsPublications
- Reduced Form Implementation with Value Interdependencies
(author(s): Jacob Goeree, Alexey Kushnir)
Games and Economic Behavior 99, 2016; 250-256 - On Sufficiency of Dominant Strategy Implementation in Environments with Correlated Types
Economics Letters 133, 2015; 4-6
- Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets
Games and Economic Behavior 80, 2013; 209–218
- Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Peter Coles, Muriel Niederle)
American Economic Journal:Micro 5(2), 2013; 99-134 - On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Alex Gershkov, Jacob Goeree, Benny Moldovanu, Xianwen Shi)
Econometrica 81(1), 2013; 197-220
Working Papers
- On Linear Transformations of Intersections
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Shuo Liu)
- A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Jacob Goeree)
- Targeted vs. Collective Information Sharing in Networks
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Alexandru Nichifor)
- Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Prices
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Robertas Zubrickas)
- On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation for Environments with Non-Linear Utilities
(author(s): Alexey Kushnir, Shuo Liu)
Awards and Honors
- 2nd prize at European Science Days for paper "Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets" (2010)
- Pennsylvania State University - RGSO Dissertation Support Grant (2010)
- Pennsylvania State University - Department of Economics Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award (2009)
- Pennsylvania State University - Summer Fellowship (2007)
- New Economic School - Best Student Paper Award (2006)
- Pennsylvania State University - Graduate Scholar Award (2006)
- Pennsylvania State University - Teaching Assistantship (2006-09) (2006)
- New Economic School - Fellowship (2004-06) (2004)
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Academic Council Fellowship (2003)
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Mayor-of- Moscow Fellowship (2002-04) (2002)
University Service
- Microeconomics theory seminar, Seminar Organizer, Organize Microeconomics theory seminar (2016 - 2017)
- Job Market Hiring Committee, Committee Member (2015 - 2016)