▪️Full name: Mohammad Akbarpour
🏫Education:
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Sharif University of Technology)
Ph.D. in Economics (Stanford University)
▪️Position:
Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor (by Courtesy), Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Referee for Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, American Economic Review
▪️Field: Market Design, Redistributive Mechanisms, Network Theory
📝Top 3 Papers:
Thickness and information in dynamic matching markets (Journal of Political Economy)
Credible auctions: A trilemma (Econometrica)
Socioeconomic network heterogeneity and pandemic policy response (National Bureau of Economic Research)
🎧Podcast:
Discussion Section with Kevin Murphy and Mohammad Akbarpour (Uchicago Economics Events and Conversations)
📽Presentation:
Information aggregation in overlapping generations and the emergence of experts (Harvard Center Of Mathematical Sciences And Applications)
Timing “Versus” Matching: Thickness and Information in Dynamic Markets (Complexity and Simplicity in Economics, Simon Institute for the theory of computing)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Economics (2020-2022)
Best Paper Award, 19th ACM Conference on Economics and Computations (2018)
Best Paper Award, 13th Workshop in Internet and Network Economics (2017)
Sean Buckley Memorial Award, Best 2nd Year Paper Prize, Stanford University Economics Department and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (2012)
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2- © Big Data 2017 Video/ Harvard CMSA Youtube Channel
3- © Mohammad Akbarpour via Twitter
Author: Hasti Mighati
