GRIGORY V. KOSENOK

SUAL Assistant Professor of Economics
New Economic School

Office 1721-10
Nakhimovsky pr. 47
Moscow 117418, Russia
Tel: (+7-495) 129 - 3844, 129-1700, ext.119
Fax: (+7-495) 129 - 3722
E-mail: gkosenok(at)nes.ru
Personal web-page: http://www.nes.ru/~gkosenok/

Teaching at NES

Intermediate Microeconomics, Empirical IO, Industrial Organization, Game Theory

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., Economics, 2002. Major in Microeconomic theory, minor in Econometrics and Mathematics.
  Dissertation: Topics in Dynamic Games.
  Reading Committee: Larry Samuelson (Chair), Barton Lipman, William Sandholm.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.Sc., Economics, 1998
• New Economic School, Moscow, M.A., Economics, 1995
• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Diploma, Applied Mathematics, 1992

Research Interests

Theoretical and Empirical IO, Game Theory, Econometrics

Publications and Research Papers

Articles in Refereed Journals:

• Philip Haile, Ali Hortacsu, and Grigory Kosenok (2008) "On the empirical content of quantal response equilibrium", American Economic Review, forthcoming
• Grigory Kosenok and Sergei Severinov (2008) "Individually rational, budget-balanced mechanisms and allocation of surplus", Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Anatolyev, Stanislav and Kosenok, Grigory (2005) "An alternative to maximum likelihood based on spacings", Econometric Theory, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 472-476
  

Current Work:

• "Public markets tailored for the cartel: favoritism in procurement auctions", with Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky
• "Efficient collusion with private monitoring"
• "Limits of acquisition in price competing industry"
• "What does a small business fear most? A study of shake-out process driven by dominant firms", with Olga Martynova and Alexei Savvateev
• "Tests in contingency tables as regression tests", with Stanislav Anatolyev
  

Conference and Seminar Participation

Conferences:

• 2007 North American Summer Meeting of Econometric Society, Duke University, 2007 (limits of acquisition)
• 2006 North American Summer Meeting of Econometric Society, University of Minnesota, 2006 (procurement auctions)
• XVIII New Economic School research conference, Moscow, 2005 (quantal response equilibrium)
• XVI New Economic School research conference, Moscow, 2004 (limits of acquisition, procurement auctions)
• Econometric Society European meeting, University Carlos III-Madrid, Spain, 2004 (efficient collusion)
• Economics workshop, Central European University, Budapest, 2004 (efficient collusion)
• IX Spring Meeting of young economists, Warsaw University, Poland, 2004 (efficient collusion)
  

Seminars:

• Higher School of Economics, Russia, 2007 (procurement auctions)
• Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2006 (procurement auctions)
• University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2006 (procurement auctions)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2006 (procurement auctions)
• EERC-Kyiv, Ukraine, 2006 (procurement auctions)
• University of Bonn, Germany, 2005 (budget-balanced mechanisms)
• University of Helsinki, Finland, 2004 (budget-balanced mechanisms)
• University of British Columbia, Canada, 2003 (budget-balanced mechanisms)
• New Economic School, 2003 (budget-balanced mechanisms)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2001 (efficient collusion)
  

Other Professional Activities

Referee for Scientific Journals:

• American Economic Review
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Ekonomika i Matematicheskie Metody

Expert:

EERC research workshop, Moscow, 2002

Departmental Service:

Chair of the NES Library Committee, 2003-present

Grants and Honors

• SUAL Assistant Professor of Economics, Access Industries, 2005-present
• Swedish Professorship Award, Economics Education and Research Consortium-Russia and Eurasia Foundation, 2002-2003
• Bullis Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, Department of Economics, 1996-1997
• Open Society Institute grant, 1996-1997

References

• William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706, phone (608) 263-3858, fax (608) 263-3876,
  e-mail: whs (at) ssc.wisc.edu
• Phil Haile, Yale University, 37 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, phone (203) 432-3568, fax (203) 432-6323, e-mail: philip.haile (at) yale.edu