MATTHIAS MESSNER Curriculum Vitae September 2013 ADDRESS PERSONAL INFORMATION Bocconi University Citizenship: Italian Via Roentgen 1, 5th floor, E1-12 Sex: M I-20136 Milano Tel: +39 02 5836 3300 Fax: +39 02 5836 3302 E-Mail: matthias dot messner at unibocconi dot it Homepage: www.igier.unibocconi.it/messner ACADEMIC POSITION since Sept. 2006 Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2006 since Sept. 2002 since Sept. 2009 Bocconi University / Milan, Italy. Associate professor, Department of Economics Bocconi University / Milan, Italy. Assistant professor, Department of Economics Research Fellow, IGIER Research Network Member, CESifo EDUCATION 1997-2002 Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Barcelona, Spain PhD in Economics, Major Fields of Concentration: Microeconomics; Subfields: Political Economy, Game Theory, Contract Theory. Dissertation: Essays in Game Theory Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Cabrales Date of Completion: March 2002 1996-1997 University of Bonn / Germany European Doctoral Program (EDP) 1992-1996 University of Munich / Germany Master s in Economics [Diplom-Volkswirt] RESEARCH INTERESTS - Political Economy, Voting Models, Social Choice, Game Theory, Contract Theory, Mechanism Design, Economics of Education.
PUBLICATIONS - Cooperation in Stochastic OLG Games (joint with Mattias Polborn), Journal of Economic Theory Vol. 108, 2003, 152-168. - Voting on Majority Rules (joint with Mattias Polborn), Review of Economic Studies Vol. 71(1), 2004, 115-132. - Paying Politicians (joint with Mattias Polborn), Journal of Public Economics Vol. 88, 2004, 2423-2445. - Strong and coalition-proof political equilibria under plurality and runoff rule (joint with Mattias Polborn), Intern. Journal of Game Theory Vol 35, (2007), 287-314. - The option to wait in collective decisions (joint with Mattias Polborn), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 96, 2012, 524-540. - Recursive methods for incentive problems, (joint with N. Pavoni and Ch. Sleet) Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 15, 2012, 501-525. - Extremal Incentive Compatible Transfers (joint with Nenad Kos), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148, 2013, 134-164. - Incentive compatibility in non-quasilinear environments, (joint with Nenad Kos) Economic Letters, Vol. 121, 12-14. WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS Working papers - The Design of Ambiguous Mechanisms (joint with A. Di Tillio and N. Kos), first version May 2011, latest version July 2012; IGIER Working Paper 446; r & r at Review of Economic Studies. - Miscounts Duverger s Law and Duverger s Hypothesis (joint with Mattias Polborn), latest version June 2012; IGIER Working Paper 380. - The Dual Approach to Recursive Optimization: Theory and Examples, (joint with Nicola Pavoni and Christopher Sleet), previous version October 2011, latest version September 2013. - Returns to Elite Higher Education in the Marriage Market: Evidence from Chile (joint with K. Kaufmann and A. Solis), first version August 2012, latest version August 2013; - The Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Achievement: Evidence from Chile (joint with K. Kaufmann and A. Solis), first version July 2013, latest version September 2013; - On the Recursive Saddle Point Method (joint with Nicola Pavoni), IGIER Working paper 255, 2004. - Comment on: A positive theory of social security based on reputation, (joint with Mattias Polborn), Working paper 2001.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Since September 2007: Deputy Director of the PhD Program in Economics at Bocconi University; - 2005/2006 and 2010/2011: Member of the Job Market Committee of the Department of Economics, Bocconi University; - Since September 2002: Instructor of Microeconomics at the undergraduate level at Bocconi University: Microeconomics I (first year course; 2002-2012), Microeconomics II (second year course; advanced microeconomics; 2010-2012). - Since September 2002: Instructor of Microeconomics in the PhD program at Bocconi University: Microeconomics I (basic decision theory; classical demand theory; 2002-2010), Microeconomics II (general equilibrium; 2011-2012). - Since September 2002: Instructor of the PhD course Social Choice and Voting Models at Bocconi University; - 1998-2002: Teaching assistant at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra for several courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. AWARDS - Louis André Gerard Varet Memorial Prize 2002 (best dissertation defended at an ASSET member institution during the period 2000-2002). - Bocconi University Research Prize 2005 For outstanding research output during the period 2003-2005. SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS - October 1996 - September 1998: Scholarship from the Graduiertenkolleg Bonn - October 1998 - December 1998: Scholarship from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - January 1999-2002: Spanish Government scholarship for young researchers - February 2005: special research grant from Bocconi University - 2008-2012 PRIN research grant from the Italian Ministry of Education (principal investigator); project title: Mechanism design: A new characterization of incentive compatible transfers and the problem of robust implementation - 2013-2016 PRIN research grant from the Italian Ministry of Education (team member); project title: Contracting between uncertainty averse agents in settings with asymmetric information
VISITING SCHOLAR - University of Bonn, June 1999 - September 1999 - University of Western Ontario, March 2000 - University of Western Ontario, March 2001 - April 2001 - University College London, September 2005 - January 2006 - Stanford University, April 2011 - May 2011 - Yale University, spring term 2012 - Center of Economic Studies, LMU Munich, June 2013 - August 2013 SELECTED RECENT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES - CES-ifo conference on Public Economics, Munich, April 2008; - Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Boston, June 2008; - Econometric Society European Meeting, Milano, August 2008; - Universitá di Venezia, invited seminar, October 2008; - University of Southampton, invited seminar, November 2008; - European Univeristy Institute, Firenze, invited seminar, April 2009; - Universidad Carlos III Madrid, invited seminar 2009; - Workshop in Applied Economics, Petralia, August 2009; - IMT Lucca, invited seminar, September 2009; - University Aix-Marseille - GREQAM, invited seminar, 2010; - CERGE, Charles University Praha, invited seminar, 2010; - University of Southampton, invited seminar, 2010; - SAET 2011, Faro; - Workshop on mechanism design, Lund University, 2011 - Workshop Interactions among ambiguity-averse agents, MPI Bonn, 2011 - UECE Lisbon Meetings 2011 in Game Theory and Applications - Yale University, February 2012 - University of Konstanz, June 2012 - Games 2012, Istanbul, July 2012 - University of Karlsruhe, November 2012 - University of Bonn, December 2012.
REFEREEING Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Public Economics, American Political Science Review, Games and Economic Behavior, The Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Public Choice Constitutional Political Economy, BE Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, European Economic Review. LANGUAGES - German: native - English, Italian, Spanish: fluent