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Prof. Dr. Dezsö Szalay

Telefon:          + 49 (0) 228 73 3926

Fax:                 + 49 (0) 228 73 9493

Email:              szalay(at)uni-bonn.de

Raum:             054

Sprechstunde:  Mittwochs 14:00-16:00

  
Research Interests:

Contract Theory, Economics of Information, Financial Contracting, Industrial Organization, Game Theory

 

Seminars:

BGSE Micro Workshop (Wednesdays 12:15-13:30, 055)

Micro Theory Seminar (Wednesdays 16:15-17:30, faculty meeting room)

 

Current Teaching

Summer-term

Phd Readinggroup on Sequential Screening

Economics of Information

 

Past Teaching:

Microeconomics

Project module for Masterstudents

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Publications:

The Economics of Extreme Options and Clear Advice (2005) Review of Economic Studies 72, 1173-1198

Contracts with Endogenous Information (2009) Games and Economic Behavior 65 pp. 586-625

Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs   (2009) American Economic Review 99(1), pp. 216-242 )(joint with Paul Beaudry and Chuck Blackorby) (this version as of March 2008)

Cash breeds Success: The Role of Financing Constraint in Patent Races (2010) Review of Finance 14(1), 73-118 (joint with Enrique Schroth) (this version as of 2009)

 

Working papers:

Innovation Races and the Strategic Role of Cash Holdings: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patents (October 2007) (joint with Enrique Schroth)

Communicating with a Team of Experts  (November 2005) (joint with Ramon Arean)

Multidimensional Screening, Affiliation, and Full Separation (June 2007) (joint with Chuck Blackorby)

Regulating a Monopolist with unknown costs and unknown quality capacity (June 2008) (joint with Chuck Blackorby)

Monopoly, Non-linear Pricing, and Imperfect Information: A Reconsideration of the Insurance Market (September 2008)

Sequential Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights (September 2008) (joint with Frederic Payot)

 

Work in Progress/ Projects:

Information Acquisition and the Problem of Delegated Portfolio Management

Incentive Compatible Risk Sharing

Rewarding the Competent: Managerial Compensation with Adverse Selection

A Theory of Optimal Experimentation

Optimal Contracting and Strategic Interaction (joint with Armin Schmutzler and Enrique Schroth)