All Posts | Jeffery Ely

Optimal Feedback in Contests

Joint with George Georgiads, Sina Khorasani and Luis Rayo We derive optimal contests for environments where output takes the form of...

A wide-ranging discussion about my research.

An excellent write-up by Kellogg Insight of my work with Jakub Steiner and Andrea Galeotti. Read it here.

Joint with Andrea Galeotti and Jakub Steiner We study rotation schemes that govern individuals’ activities within an organization during...

Joint with Jakub Steiner and Andrea Galeotti A health authority chooses a binary action for each of several individuals that differ in...

Joint with Laura Doval We study games of incomplete information as both the information structure and the extensive-form vary. An analyst...

My response to Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen's persuasive argument that advances in information technology may allude to the end of...

A great write-up at Crain’s Chicago Business of the tremendous success we had with Purple Pricing for the Northwestern-Ohio State...

It’s a pretty cool blog, they ask people from different walks what their productivity setup is. I am a control freak when it comes to my...

I was interviewed for about 45 minutes about auctions, purple pricing, sports, advertising and in the end they went with an off-the-cuff...

Sandeep Baliga and I are interviewed by Sarah Green for the HBR Ideacast. The topic is dynamic pricing from airlines to sports....

From Fast Company: For redefining ticket sales. Under the direction of two in-house economists, the university is testing out a new...

Daniel Krieger wrote this for FastCompany magazine and someone named Jeremyville added some fantastic illustrations. Click on the...

Sandeep Baliga and I discuss our research on the evolutionary origins of the sunk cost fallacy. It’s an example of a kludge, this...

This was a fun talk to give. Watch and listen below:

The Wall Street Journal Numbers Guy blog covered my auction scrabble idea. Besides learning that Scrabble can be fun for him when...

I teach undergraduate intermediate microeconomics, a 10 week course that is the second in a two-part sequence at Northwestern...

I propose a mechanism for redistricting inspired by cake-cutting mechanisms for fair division. The majority party proposes a partition of...

Joint with Martin Szydlowski We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard frame- work. An agent works on a task...

Joint with Alex Frankel and Emir Kamenica We model demand for non-instrumental information, drawing on the idea that people derive...