Alexey Kushnir

Associate Professor of Economics

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Education

• 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, Auctions

Publications

• 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)