IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents, Ron Siegel, Ph.D., “Large Contests”

Feb. 1st, Ron Siegel, Ph.D. – Large Contests

Abstract: We consider contests with many, possibly heterogeneous, prizes and players that include many existing contest models as special cases. We show that the outcome of such contests is approximated by an appropriately defined set of incentive-compatible individually-rational single-agent mechanisms.

Bio: Ron Siegel is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern university. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2007. His research interests include game theory, contest theory, and mechanism design. Most of his research to date has focused on formulating and investigating models of asymmetric contests.

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