Ali Shourideh

Associate Professor of Economics

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Education

• University of Minnesota - Ph D (Economics) - 2012
• University of British Columbia - MA (Economics) - 2005
• Sharif University of Technology - BS (Mechanical Engineering) - 2004

Research

Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Financial Markets, Contract Theory, Dynamic Games

Publications

• Reputation and Persistence of Adverse Selection in Secondary Loan Markets

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, V. Chari, Ariel Zetlin-Jones)
  American Economic Review, 2014

• Optimal Contracting and Dynamic Altruism: Consumption and Family Size

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Roozbeh Hosseini, Larry Jones)
  Journal of Economic Theory, 2013

• Optimal Pension Systems with Simple Instruments

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Mikhail Golosov, Aleh Tsyvinski, Maxim Troshkin)
  American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 3, 2013; 502–507

Working Papers

• Efficiency and Adverse Selection: On the Desirability of Mutual Contracts

  (author(s): Ariel Zetlin-Jones, V.V. Chari, Ali Shourideh)

• Efficiency and Adverse Selection: On the Role of Mutual Contracts

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, V. Chari, Ariel Zetlin-Jones)

• Financial Frictions and the Reallocation of Capital over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Ariel Zetlin-Jones)

• Optimal Taxation of Wealthy Individuals
• Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Cycles of Debt Crisis and Inequality Overhang

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Alessandro Dovis, Mikhail Golosov)

• Providing Efficient Incentives to Work: Retirement Ages and the Pension System

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Maxim Troshkin)

• Retirement Financing: An Optimal Reform Approach

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Roozbeh Hosseini)

• Screening and Adverse Selection in Frictional Markets

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Ben Lester, Venky Venkatweswaran, Ariel Zetlin-Jones)
  Journal of Political Economy

• Taxation, Sorting and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence

  (author(s): Ali Shourideh, Mikhail Golosov, Arash Nekoei)

Awards and Honors

• American Economic Review - Excellence in Refereeing Award (2012)
• University of Minnesota - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2010)
• Romania - Gold Medal in International Mathematics Competition for University Students (2003)
• Silver Medals in International Mathematical Olympiad (2000)
• Silver Medals in International Mathematical Olympiad (1999)