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1 Prof. Dr. Benny Moldovanu Curriculum Vitae Education 1995 Habilitation, University of Bonn 1991 Ph.D. Economics (summa cum laude), University of Bonn. Advisor: Prof. Reinhard Selten M.Sc. Mathematics (with distinction), Hebrew 1989 University Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Bezalel Peleg B.Sc. Mathematics (with distinction), Hebrew University 1986 Jerusalem Employment Spring 2005 Visiting Professor of Economics, University College London Fall 2004 Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University 2002-present Full Professor of Economics, University of Bonn Spring 1999 ENTER Research Professor, University College London Fall 1998 Visiting Research Professor, Northwestern University Full Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bonn Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann- Arbor Spring 1992 Visiting Lecturer, University of Tel-Aviv Summer 1991 Landau Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Honors and Grants Invited Lecture, European Congress of the Econometric Society in Milano, 2008 Invited Lecture, World Congress of the Econometric Society in London, 2005 Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected 2004 Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association, 2004 Invited Lecture, Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille 2004 Member of the Nordrhein - Westfalian Academy of Science Invited Lecture, Econometric Society European Meeting, Venice 2002 Invited Lecture, Econometric Society US Meeting, Evanston 2003 Max Planck Research Prize, 2001

2 Landau Fellow, Jerusalem 1991 W.A. Jörn Prize for Best Dissertation, Bonn 1991 Research Grant, SFB Transregio, German Science Foundation, 2004-present Research Grant, SFB 504, German Science Foundation, Research Grant, SFB 303, German Science Foundation, Professional Activities Council Member, Game Theory Society, Co-Director of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (German Science Foundation Excellence-Initiative), Co-Director of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (German Science Foundation Excellence-Initiative), Member of the Fellows Nominating Commitee, Econometric Society, 2006 Associate Editor, Econometrica, Associate Editor, Games and Economic Behavior, Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory, Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association, Panel Member, Economic Policy, Coordinator of the European Symposium on Economic Theory, Research Fellow, CEPR, Organizer, Conference on Multidimensional Mechanism Design, Bonn 1994 Organizer, Conference on Auctions and Market Structure, Mannheim 2000 Organizer, Conference on Matching and Two Sided Markets, Bonn 2006 Chairman of scientific commitee, Econometric Society meeting, Madrid 2004 Member of scientific committee, Econometric Society meeting, Maastricht 1994, Stockholm 2003 Member of scientific committee, European Economic Association meeting, Toulouse 1997 Chairman of scientific committee, German Economic Association meeting, Magdeburg 2001 Member of scientific committee, German Economic Association meeting, Lugano 1991,

3 Mainz 1999, Berlin 2000 Member of Economic Theory Panel, German Economic Association, Consulting Auction design for large governmental projects (telecommunications, natural resources); Auction design for the electricity sector; Development of internet-based auction procedures for B2B e-commerce firms; Analysis of procurement mechanisms for large industrial firms; Freelance Consultant for CRA International, Boston USA; Member of scientific advisory board, Portum AG, Frankfurt. Selected clients: General Electric, RWE, DaimlerChrysler, Trans-Elect, Fonterra, Dutch Government Benny Moldovanu - Publications "Learning About The Future and DynamicEfficiency", (joint with Alex Gershkov), forthcoming in American Economic Review "The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals", (joint with Heidrun Hoppe and Aner Sela), Review of Economic Studies, 2009, vol. 76, issue 1, pages "Dynamic Revenue Maximization withheterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism DesignApproach", (joint with Alex Gershkov), forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics "Efficient Sequential Assignment with Incomplete Information",(joint with Alex Gershkov), fourthcoming in Games and Economic Behaviour. "Competing Auctions with Endogenous Quantities", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 141 (2008), "Ex-post Implementation and Preference Aggregation via Potentials", (joint with Philippe Jehiel and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn), Economic Theory, Vol. 37 (2008), No. 3, "Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments", (joint with Christian Groh, Aner Sela and Uwe Sunde), forthcoming in Economic Theory "Contests for Status", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 115 (2007), "Mixed Bundling Auctions", (joint with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and Philippe Jehiel), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 134 (2007), "Posterior Implementation vs Ex-Post Implementation", (joint with Philippe Jehiel, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and William R. Zame), Economics Letters Vol. 97 (2007), "The Limits of Ex-Post Implementation", (joint with Philippe Jehiel, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and William R. Zame), Econometrica, Vol. 74, No. 3, May 2006, "Allocative and Informational Externalities in Auctions and Related Mechanisms", (joint with

4 Philippe Jehiel), in The Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University Press, "Contest Architecture", (with Aner Sela), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 126, No. 1, January 2006, "License Auctions and Market Structure", (with Heidrun Hoppe and Philippe Jehiel), Journal of Economics and Managment Strategy, Vol. 15, No 2, Summer 2006, "Priority Auctions and Queue Disciplines that Depend on Processing Time", (joint with Thomas Kittsteiner), Management Science, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2005, "The Design of an Efficient Private Industry", (joint with Philippe Jehiel), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 2, 2-3, April- May 2004, "An Experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuations", (with Oliver Kirchkamp), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 48 (1), July 2004, Allocation Mechanisms and Post-Allocation Interaction (with M. Janssen), Auctioning Public Assets Analysis and Alternatives, M. Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press, An Analysis of the European 3G Licensing Process (with E. Maasland), Auctioning Public Assets Analysis and Alternatives, M. Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press, Matching Markets, Auctioning Public Assets Analysis and Alternatives, M. Janssen ed., Cambridge University Press, "Partnerships, Lemons and Efficient Trade", (with Karsten Fieseler and Thomas Kittsteiner), Journal of Economic Theory 113 (2003), "An Economic Perspective on Auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel), Economic Policy, Vol. 36, April 2003, "Licensing Bertrand Competitors", (with Aner Sela), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 21, 2003, "The German UMTS Design: Insights From Multi-Object Auction Theory", (with Christian Ewerhart), ifo studies, 1/2001, , reprinted in Spectrum Auction and Competition in Telecommunications, Illing, G.(ed.), MIT Press "Bid Costs and Endogenous Bid Caps", (with Arieh Gavious and Aner Sela), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 33(4), Winter 2002, "How to Dissolve a Partnership", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 158, 2002, A Practical Approach to Multi-Attribute Auctions (with B. Burmeister, T. Ihde, T.Kittsteiner and J. Nikutta), DEXA Workshops 2002, "Efficient Design with Interdependent Valuations", (with Philippe Jehiel), Econometrica

5 69(5), 2001, "The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests", (with Aner Sela), American Economic Review, Vol 91(3), June 2001, "A note of revenue maximization and efficiency in multi-object auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, 2001, No.2, 1-5. "Auctions with Downstream Interaction among Buyers", (with Philippe Jehiel), RAND Journal of Economics, 31 (4), 2000, Multidimensional Mechanism Design for Auctions with Externalities (with Philippe Jehiel and Ennio Stacchetti), Journal of Economic Theory 85(2), 1999, Resale Markets and the Assignment of Property Rights (with Philippe Jehiel), Review of Economic Studies 66(4) 1999, Goethe\'s Second-Price Auction, (with Manfred Tietzel), Journal of Political Economy, 106(4), 1998, How (not) to Sell Nuclear Weapons (with Philippe Jehiel and Ennio Stacchetti), American Economic Review 86(4), 1996, Are Stable Demand Vectors in the Core of Two-Sided Markets? Some Graph-Theoretical Considerations, in Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten, Springer Verlag, Strategic Non-Participation (with Philippe Jehiel), RAND Journal of Economics 27(1), 1996, 84-98, reprinted in The Economic Theory of Auctions, Paul Klemperer(ed), Edward Elgar The Provision and Cost-Sharing of an Excludable Public Good, EconomicTheory 7, 1996, William Vickrey und die Auktionstheorie, Wirtschaftsdienst, December Negative Externalities May Cause Delay in Negotiation (with Philippe Jehiel), Econometrica 63(6), 1995, Cyclical Delay in Infinite Horizon Bargaining with Externalities (with Philippe Jehiel), Review of Economic Studies 62(4), 1995, Order Independent Equilibria (with Eyal Winter), Games and Economic Behavior 9, 1995, Consistent Demands for Coalition Formation (with Eyal Winter), in Essays in Game Theory in Honor of Michael Maschler, Nimrod Megiddo ed., Spinger Verlag, Heidelberg, Core Implementation and Increasing Returns to Scale (with Eyal Winter), Journal of Mathematical Economics 23, 1994, Price Indeterminacy and Bargaining in a Market with Indivisibilities, Journal of

6 Mathematical Economics 22, 1993, Coalition-Proof Nash Equilibria and the Core in Three-Player Games, Games and Economic Behavior 4, 1992, Stable Bargained Equilibria for Assignment Games without Side Payments, International Journal of Game Theory 19, 1990, A Note on a Theorem of Aumann and Dreze, International Journal of Game Theory 18, 1989, Discussion Papers NEW "Revenue Maximization in the Dynamic Knapsack Problem" (joint with Deniz Dizdar and Alex Gershkov), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2009 NEW "Optimal Search, Learning, and Implementation",(joint with Alex Gershkov), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2009 NEW "Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests", (joint with Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2008 "Coarse Matching with Incomplete Information", (joint with Heidrun Hoppe and Emre Ozdenoren), discussion paper, University of Bonn, revised 2008 "Auction-Based Queue Disciplines", (joint with Thomas Kittsteiner), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2003 "A Stylized Model of the German UMTS Auction", (with Christian Ewerhart), discussion paper, University of Bonn, 2003, in revision for European Economic Review "The European UMTS/IMT-2000 License Auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel),discussion paper, University of Mannheim, 2001 The contents of the paper appear in "An Economic Perspective on Auctions", (with Philippe Jehiel), Economic Policy,Vol. 36, April 2003, pp Books Understanding Strategic Interaction- Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten, W. Albers, W. Güth, P. Hammerstein, B. Moldovanu and E. van Damme (editors), Springer, Berlin 1996 Articles in the Popular Press "Regeln für eine Welt unvollkommener Märkte", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "Für ein Plätzchen am Himmel der Funker", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Der Spieltheoretiker", Die Zeit, "Kleine Verfahrensfehler mit großen Folgen", Financial Times Deutschland, "Auktionen", Wirtschaftswoche,

7 "William Vickery und die Auktionstheorie", Wirtschaftsdienst,

Organizational Economics, Personnel Economics, Behavioral Economics

Organizational Economics, Personnel Economics, Behavioral Economics CURRICULUM VITAE Professor Dr. Jenny Kragl Professor of Economics (Microeconomics) EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht EBS Business School Department of Management & Economics Rheingaustr. 1 D - 65375