Resume - Ecares

Nicolas F. GOTHELF - Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics - ECARES
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP139
B. 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 650 38 55
Fax: +32 2 650 44 75
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2004 - 2010
2002 - 2004
1998 - 2002
Ph.D. in Economics, ULB
Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics, ULB
B.S. Quantitative Economics, ULB, Magna Cum Laude
LANGUAGES
French (native), English (fluent), Dutch (Basic knowledge).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Auction and market design, Electronic markets and Computerized systems, Microeconomics.
WORKING PAPERS
1. Information revelation in an English Auction
Abstract: This paper asks whether revealing the identity of dropping bidders is in the interest
of the auctioneer in an ascending price auction with asymmetric bidders and interdependent values.
We show that revealing no information about bidders identities may increase the expected revenue.
In art auctions, for example, bidders often use a representative in order to hide their identities. In
this setup, we identify the underlying mechanism for the failure of the often-heard recommendation
that more transparency increases revenue. We also consider bidder ranking over auction formats.
2. About the choice between a reversed multi attribute auction and a reversed auction
with a quality threshold (with Yves de Smet and Gilles Havelange)
Abstract: We consider a reversed English Auction model with a 2-dimensional utility function:
the buyer cares about the price and the quality of a single and indivisible good or service. The
buyer may choose to conduct a Multi-Attribute Auction - MAA - and to reveal her utility function
and the parameters of the functional form. Alternatively, she may choose to conduct a Reversed
Auction with a Quality threshold - RAQ. In the latter, she reveals a minimum level of quality K to
select a subset of qualified bidders and then organizes a reversed auction based on price. These two
implementations significantly differ in the information revealed. The question raised is to quantify
the expected utility loss of choosing RAQ instead of MAA. Moreover, we determine values of K
that minimize this cost to the buyer. Finally, we compare the efficiency of the implementation of a
RAQ with that of a MAA. We restrict our analytical approach to the case where only two bidders
participate in the auction. Then, we use simulations to extend our results when more than two
bidders are qualified.
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3. Slave Auction and credit facilities (with Vincenzo Verardi, work in progress)
Abstract: We investigate the impact of credit facilities on prepackaged slave auction on the New
Orleans Slave Market in a common value model with heterogeneous goods. We show that credit
increases the price of imposed prepackages (mother with children) and has an ambiguous effect on
divisible prepackages. We also address identification issues.
4. On the impacts of weakening the information structure in a multi attribute auction
context (with Aurélie Casier and Yves de Smet, work in progress)
5. Quel enfant, dans quelle école ? Réflexions sur la régulation des inscriptions scolaires
en Belgique (with Estelle Cantillon, in French)
6. It’s Magic... It’s Disney ! (Do themeparks deserve their success?) (with Denis Herbaux
and Vincenzo Verardi, work in progress)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2004 - present
2003 - Present
2003 - Present
2003 - Present
Fall 2002
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Graduate Information Systems Management , ULB.
Undergraduate Microeconomic Theory I, ULB.
Undergraduate Mathematics II, ULB.
Undergraduate Mathematics I, ULB.
Undergraduate Introductory Economics, ULB.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
November 2009
July 2009
June 2009
March 2009
February 2007
December 2006
June 2006
January 2006
July 2005
FUNDP seminar, Namur, Belgium.
The Economics of Art and Culture conference, Steyr, Austria.
IDEP, Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet #8, Marseille, France.
ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
ENTER meeting, Mannheim, Germany.
IDEI, CEPR, NCAER, ”Sustaining Fast Growth” conference, New Dehli, India.
ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
ENTER meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
REFEREE
European Journal for Operational Research (EJOR)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2004 - 2009
2004 - 2009
2009 - Present
Elected representative of teaching assistants and researchers on the Board of the
Faculty of Social, Political sciences/ SBS-EM.
Elected representative of teaching assistants and researchers on the Board of the
Dept. of Economics/SBS-EM.
Board of directors’ member of Solvay Alumni.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2007 - 2009
Consultant, Basel II validation and stress-testing, Risk Dynamics, Brussels.
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REFERENCES
Prof. Estelle Cantillon
ECARES
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP114
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel +32 (0) 2 650 3840
E-mail : [email protected]
Prof. Mathias Dewatripont
ECARES
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP114
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel +32 (0) 2 650 4212
E-mail : [email protected]
Prof. Marjorie Gassner
ECARES
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP139
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel +32 (0) 2 650 3843
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Victor Ginsburgh
ECARES
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP114
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel +32 (0) 2 650 3846
E-mail : [email protected]
Last Update: 2009/10
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