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Estelle Cantillon is Professor of Economics at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles . She is a CEPR Research Affiliate, and holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Her research involves both theory and empirics. Her auction work has looked at asymmetric auctions, combinatorial auctions and multi-attribute auctions, with an emphasis on procurement applications. Her current projects look at the competition between marketplaces, the creation of markets and course allocation mechanisms. She has also explored the theme of competition between marketplaces in teaching cases
Peter Cramton is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Since 1983, he has conducted research on auction theory and practice. This research appears in the leading economics journals. The main focus is the design of auctions for many related items. Applications include spectrum auctions, electricity auctions, and treasury auctions. On the practical side, he is Chairman of Market Design Inc., an economics consultancy founded in 1995, focusing on the design of auction markets. He also is Founder and Chairman of Cramton Associates LLC, which since 1993 has provided expert advice on auctions and market design. Since 2001, he has played a lead role in the design and implementation of electricity auctions in France and Belgium, gas auctions in Germany, and the world’s first auction for greenhouse gas emissions held in the UK in 2002. He has advised numerous governments on market design and has advised dozens of bidders in high-stake auction markets. Since 1997, he has advised ISO New England on electricity market design and was a lead designer of New England’s forward capacity auction. He led the design of electricity and gas markets in Colombia, including the Firm Energy Market, the Forward Energy Market, and the Long-term Gas Market. Since June 2006, he played a leading role in the design and development of Ofcom’s spectrum auctions in the UK. He has advised the UK, the US, and Australia on greenhouse gas auction design. He led the development of the FAA’s airport slot auctions for the New York City airports. He received his B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Business from Stanford University.
Dan Friedman's 1977 dissertation on market dynamics (supervised by Stephen Smale) earned him a Mathematics PhD from University of California, Santa Cruz. He learned something about real-world finance and economics from two years at Bank of America, and then began his academic career at UCLA. He joined the UCSC Economics Department in 1985. Best known for his work in evolutionary game theory and laboratory markets, Dan is currently investigating e-commerce market institutions and the evolutionary foundations of behavioral economics.
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Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
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David Parkes is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard
University. He was the recipient of the NSF Career Award, the
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Thouron Scholarship, the Harvard
University Roslyn Abramson Award for Teaching and named as one of
Harvard Class of 2010 Favorite Professors. Parkes received his
Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Science from the
University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and an M.Eng. (First class)
in Engineering and Computing Science from Oxford University in
1995. At Harvard, Parkes founded the Economics and Computer
Science research group and teaches classes in artificial
intelligence, machine learning, optimization, multi-agent
systems, and topics at the intersection between computer science
and e conomics. Parkes is Chair of the ACM SIG on Electronic
Commerce, and serves as co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior,
and on the boards of ACM TEAC, Journal of Autonomous Agents and
Multi-agent Systems and INFORMS Journal of Computing. Previously,
Parkes served as Program Chair for ACM EC'07 and AAMAS'08,
General Chair of ACM EC'10, and on the editorial board of Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Research. His research interests
relate to electronic commerce, market design, mechanism design,
social choice and social computing.
Tuomas Sandholm is Professor in the Computer Science Department at
Carnegie Mellon University and a serial entrepreneur. He has published
over 450 papers on market design; game theory; search and integer
programming; electronic commerce; artificial intelligence; multiagent
systems; auctions and exchanges; automated negotiation and contracting;
coalition formation; voting; safe exchange; normative models of bounded
rationality; resource-bounded reasoning; and machine learning. He has
over 20 years of experience building optimization-based electronic
marketplaces, and has fielded several of his systems. He was Founder,
Chairman, and CTO/Chief Scientist of CombineNet, Inc. from 1997 until its
acquisition in 2010. During this period the company commercialized over
800 large-scale generalized combinatorial auctions, with over $50 billion
in total spend and over $6 billion in generated savings. Dr. Sandholm's
algorithms also run the US-wide kidney exchange. Since early 2009, he has
been the design consultant of Baidu's sponsored search auctions; Baidu's
market cap increased 5x to $50 billion during this period due to better
monetization. He has also consulted for Yahoo!, Netcycler, Google, and
others. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996 and 1994. He earned an
M.S. (B.S. included) with distinction in Industrial Engineering and
Management Science from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in
1991. He is recipient of the NSF Career Award, the inaugural ACM
Autonomous Agents Research Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Fellowship, the Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence, and the
Computers and Thought Award. He is Fellow of the ACM and AAAI.
Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of Trento. He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve. He joined the University of Trento in 1994, after the University of Venice and the University L. Bocconi of Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research on Organisation, Coordination and Knowledge. He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and modularization. Current research is focussed on two main topics: coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.
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