Nima Haghpanah

415 Kern building
Department of Economics
Penn State University

nima.haghpanah@gmail.com

Resume
Research statement

I am an associate professor of Economics at Penn State.

I am a microeconomic theorist (and also a CS theorist). I study mechanism design, information design, and price discrimination.

Work in Progress

with Ron Siegel
Screening Two Types [Slides]
with Ron Siegel

Publications

with Aditya Kuvalekar and Elliot Lipnowski
American Economic Review 2024
Abstract in ACM EC 2021
with Ron Siegel
Journal of Political Economy 2023
Abstract in ACM EC 2019 as Consumer-Optimal Market Segmentation
with Itai Ashlagi and Constantinos Daskalakis
Operations Research 2023
Abstract in ACM EC 2016
with Ron Siegel
American Economic Review: Insights 2022
with S. Nageeb Ali, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel
Quarterly Journal of Economics 2022
with Jason Hartline
Review of Economic Studies 2021
Abstract in ACM EC 2015 as Reverse Mechanism Design
with Hu Fu, Jason Hartline, and Robert Kleinberg
Journal of Economic Theory 2021
with Nikhil Devanur and Alex Psomas
Games and Economic Behavior 2020
Abstract in ACM EC 2017
with Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Jason Hartline, and Azarakhsh Malekian
Mathematics of Operations Research 2019
Abstract in ACM EC 2012
with MohammadHossein Bateni, Balu Sivan, and Morteza Zadimoghaddam
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation 2015
Preliminary version in WINE 2013
with Nicole Immorlica, Vahab Mirrokni, and Kamesh Munagala
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation 2013
Abstract in ACM EC 2011
with Nima Anari, Shayan Ehsani, Mohammad Ghodsi, Nicole Immorlica, Hamid Mahini, and Vahab Mirrokni
Theoretical Computer Science 2013
Preliminary version in WINE 2010

Conference Papers

with Zeinab Abbassi and Vahab Mirrokni
WINE 2015
with Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, and Jason Hartline
FOCS 2013
with Hessamedin Akhlaghpour, Mohammad Ghodsi, Hamid Mahini, Vahab Mirrokni, and Afshin Nikzad

WINE 2010

Thesis

Northwestern University 2014

Mechanism Design Topics Lecture Notes

I use these notes for my PhD topics class. If you find typos, please email me and let me know.

Week 1: Screening
Week 2: Auctions
Week 3: VCG and implementability
Week 4: Dynamic mechanisms
Week 5: Multi-dimensional screening
Week 6: Robustness and worst case analysis
Week 7: Information design
Week 8: Robust contracts