SEGAL, ILYA
Roy and Betty Anderson Professor in the Humanities and Sciences
Ph.D. Harvard University; M.S. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Applied Mathematics)
Research Interests: Microeconomic theory, contract theory, information economics, industrial organization.
Current Research: Design of auctions and pricing mechanisms, contracting and bargaining with externalities.
Representative Recent Papers: (1) Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand, American Economic Review, forthcoming; (2) Envelope Theorems for Arbitrary Choice Sets, (with Paul Milgrom), Econometrica 70(2), pp. 583-601, March 2002; (3) The Mirrlees Approach to Mechanism Design with Renegotiation (with Applications to Hold-Up and Risk Sharing), (with Michael Whinston), Econometrica 70(1), pp. 1-45, January 2002; (4) Collusion, Exclusion, and Inclusion in Random-Order Bargaining, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
Teaching Interests: Microeconomic theory, contract theory, industrial organization, theory of the firm
Professional Affiliations: Econometric Society