SIDARTHA GORDON May 2015 Department of Economics Work: +33.1.45.49.85.86 Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-‐Pères Mobile: +33.6.23.55.23.17 75007, Paris, France. [email protected] http://econ.sciences-‐po.fr/staff/sidartha-‐gordon EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Sciences Po, 2012-‐. Former appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal, 2005–2012. Research Fellow, CIREQ, 2006-‐2012. Research Fellow, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2004–2005. VISITS CIREQ Montreal, two weeks in April 2013 and two weeks in April 2014. Helsinki Center for Economic Research (HECER), three weeks in August 2013. University of Basel, Summer and Fall 2010. University of Bern, Summer and Fall 2010. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management), 2004. Diplôme d’Études Approfondies, Economic Analysis and Policy, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (DELTA), Paris, France, 1999. Engineering degree, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 1998. PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED “Public Decisions: Solidarity and the Status Quo” (2007) Games and Economic Behavior, 61(2), pp. 225—241. “Solidarity in Choosing a Location on a Cycle” (2007) Social Choice and Welfare, 29(1), pp. 125—147. “Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities” (2012) with Olivier Bochet Games and Economic Behavior, 74(1), pp. 52—67. “Weighted Majoritarian Rules for the Location of Multiple Public Facilites,” (2013) with Olivier Bochet and Rene Saran Journal of Mathematical Economics, 49, pp. 454—454. “Optimal Project Selection Mechanisms” (2014) with Talia Bar American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(3), pp. 227—255. “Unanimity in Attribute-‐Based Preference Domains’’ (2015) Social Choice and Welfare, 44(1), pp. 13-‐29. “Information Transmission in Nested Sender-‐Receiver Games” (2015) with Ying Chen Economic Theory, 58(3), pp 543-‐569. “Doubts and Dogmatism in Conflict Behavior” (2014) with Alessandro Riboni Economic Journal, accepted. REVISE AND RESUBMIT “Iteratively Stable Cheap Talk” (2012) Theoretical Economics, revision requested. “On Infinite Cheap Talk Equilibria” (2010) Journal of Economic Theory, revision requested. “Project Selection: Commitment and Competition” (2014) with Vidya Atal and Talia Bar Games and Economic Behavior, revision requested. OTHER WORKING PAPERS “Information Choice and Diversity: The Role of Strategic Complementarities” (2015) with Catherine Gendron-‐Saulnier. “Strategy-‐proof Provision of Two Public Goods: the Lexmax extension” (2014) with Lars Ehlers. “Figures of Speech and Informative Communication” (2013), with Georg Nöldeke. “Announcing Intermediate Breakthroughs in an R&D Race” (revised 2011). “Waiting for my Neighbours” (2014) with Emeric Henry and Pauli Murto. WORK IN PROGRESS “Overcautious or Trigger-‐Happy Advisors: When Best to Stop” (2014) with Nicolas Klein. “Observation Delays in Teams” (2014) with Chantal Marlats and Lucie Ménager. “Treatment Delay, Learning and Antibiotic Efficacy under Open Access” (2011) with Dominique Baril-‐Tremblay. GRANTS Sciences Po Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), 2014-‐2016 : 9000 €. Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Soc. et la Culture (FQRSC), 2008-‐2012, $43500. FQRSC Research Team Grant, 2012-‐2016, $316 360, with L. Ehlers, W. Bossert, Y. Sprumont and V. Manjunath. FQRSC Research Team Grant, 2008-‐2012, $203600, with L. Ehlers, W. Bossert and Y. Sprumont. Université de Montréal Research Fund, $15000. Université de Montréal Travel Funds, $3000. Université de Montréal Post-‐Doctoral Grant, 2004-‐2005, $10000. INVITED SEMINARS 2015 : Paris School of Economics, Université Paris-‐Dauphine, HEC Lausanne, University of St-‐Andrews, University of Oslo, Aix-‐Marseille Sciences Économiques, University of East-‐Anglia. 2014 : École Polytechnique, University of Southern Denmark, Aalto University. 2013 : University of Geneva, Paris School of Economics, Théma / Université de Cergy-‐
Pontoise, Helsinki Center of Economic Research, University of Bern. 2012 : Sciences Po, HEC Paris, Université de Cergy-‐Pontoise, University of Bonn, Aalto University, University of Edinburgh. 2011: McMaster University, Université du Québec à Montréal. 2010: HEC Lausanne, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Basel, Ecole Polytechnique, Universitad Autonoma de Barcelona, University of Bonn, Université Catholique de Louvain. 2009: University of Bern, Paris School of Economics. 2008: University of Minnesota, University of Hawaii, University of Windsor. 2007: University of Western Ontario, Rice University. 2006 : Cornell University, University of Maastricht. 2005 : CORE, INSEAD, Sabanci University. 2004: Université de Montréal, H.E.C. Montréal, Facultés Universitaires Notre-‐Dame de la Paix (Namur, Belgium). 2003: Kellogg School of Management (Management and Strategy Seminar). 2002: Kellogg School of Management (Theory Bag Lunch Seminar). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2015: Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Boston; European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, Gerzensee (scheduled), invited; Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Cambridge (scheduled), invited; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, London Ontario (scheduled), World Congress of the Econometric Society, Montreal (scheduled). 2014: International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook; Conference of The European Association for Research in Economics (EARIE), Milan. 2013: Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal; Society for Economic Design, Lund; CIREQ Montreal Economic Theory Conference on Persuasion, invited; Advances in Experimentation, Paris, invited. 2012: European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, Gerzensee, invited. 2011: Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver; Society for Economic Design, Montreal. 2010: Workshop on prior-‐free mechanism design, Guanajuato, invited; World Congress of the Econometric Society, Shanghai; Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga, invited; Workshop on Information Transmission and Persuasion in Games, Paris, invited; Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Evanston. 2009: Meetings of the American Economic Association, San Francisco, invited. 2008: International Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston; Latin-‐American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Rio de Janeiro; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver; Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society. 2007: Workshop on Communication, Game Theory and Language at the Kellogg School of Management, invited; Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Halifax, invited; 26th Arne Ryde Symposium on Games, Communication and Experiments, Lund. 2006: Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto; International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul. 2005: Summer School on Economics Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, Louvain-‐la Neuve. 2004: International Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille; International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal; International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago; Meetings for the Society for Economic Design, Mallorca. 2002: International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Pasadena; Midwest Economic Theory and International Economics Meetings, South-‐Bend. GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION Ph.D. Thesis advisor (both at Université de Montréal): Catherine Gendron-‐Saulnier (expected to graduate in 2015, placed at Analysis Group, Montreal office). Maxime Agbo (2012, now Assistant Professor at the African School of Economics, Benin). Ph.D. Thesis co-‐advisor (at Université de Montréal): Christian Trudeau (2009, now Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada). Ph.D. Committee member: At Université de Montréal: Hervé Lohouès (2005, now Principal Country Economist at the African Development Bank, Tunisia) Éric Bahel (2010, now Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, USA) Markus Herrmann (2007, now Associate Professor at Université Laval, Canada) Johan Latulippe (2011, now Professor of Management at Vancouver Island University, Canada). At the Paris School of Economics: Perrin Lefebvre (2014). Master’s thesis advisor: At Sciences Po: Jérôme Santoul (Master 2, Ph.D. track, 2014). At Université de Montréal: David Salgado, Dominique Baril-‐Tremblay (now Ph.D. student at the Paris School of Economics), Catherine Simard, Tommy Sagala, Brigitte Bouchard-‐Milord. External PhD examiner: Emilia Oljemark (2014), Aalto University School of Business and Helsinki Center for Economic Research (now Post-‐Doctoral Fellow at University of Konstanz). COURSES TAUGHT Sciences Po, 2012-‐: Intermediate Microeconomics (undergraduate) Microeconomics 3 (Game Theory and Economics of Information), Master 2 PhD Track. Microeconomics 1: Consumer and Markets, Master 1 Economics and Public Policy. Université de Montréal, 2005–2012: Microeconomics II (Game Theory and Economics of Information), Ph.D. 1st year. Industrial Organization, Graduate. Advanced Industrial Organization, Undergraduate. Mathematical Methods for Economic Analysis, Undergraduate. University of Bern and University of Basel, fall 2010: Advanced Game Theory, Graduate. Kellogg School of Management, fall 2002: Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions, M.B.A. CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR ORGANIZATION Coordinator, Friday Lunch Seminar, Sciences Po, 2012-‐. Member of the Organisation Committee, CIREQ Montreal Matching Conference, 2014. Organizer, Informal Microeconomics Seminar Series, Université de Montréal, fall 2011. Member of the Organizing Committee, Seventh Biannual Conference of the Society for Economic Design (SED) in Montreal, June 2011. Coordinator, Microeconomics Seminar Series, Université de Montréal 2007-‐2009. Member of the Organizing Committee, Ninth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Montreal, June 2008. Organizer (with Nicolas Sahuguet) of the Canadian Economic Theory Conference in Montreal, May 2007. OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES (at Sciences Po) Member of the Jury of the Masters’ International Admission Procedure, Sciences Po (2014). Faculty recruiting committee (2014). Created, published and maintained the Sciences Po Economics Department Discussion Paper Series: 17 papers in 2013; 18 papers in 2014. REFEREEING Journals: Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Economic Review, Labour Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, International Journal of Game Theory, Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Sciences, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Dynamics and Games. Other: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation (USA). OTHER INFORMATION Date of birth: 4th March 1976. Citizenships: France and Ecuador. Languages: English, French, and Spanish.