Juan Ortner 

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Boston University

 

Address: 

Boston University

Department of Economics 
270 Bay State Road                                                                        
Boston, MA 02215

           

Email: jortner@bu.edu 

CV: [PDF]

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Political Economy

 

                                                                         

Working Papers

The Value of Privacy in Cartels: An Analysis of the Inner Workings of a Bidding Ring [PDF] (supplement, booklet with court rulings)

with Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi, accepted Review of Economic Studies

Screening Adaptive Cartels [PDF]

with Sylvain Chassang, Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi

A Theory of Security Issuance [PDF] 

with Martin Schmalz

 

Publications                                              

Mediated Collusion [PDF]

with Takuo Sugaya and Alexander Wolitzky, Journal of Political Economy, 2024

Regulating Collusion [PDF]

with Sylvain Chassang, Annual Review of Economics, 2023  

Bargaining with Evolving Private Information [PDF]

Theoretical Economics, 2023

Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency to Detect Collusion: A Regression Discontinuity Approach [PDF]

with Sylvain Chassang, Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi, Review of Economic Studies, 2023

Paths to the Frontier [PDF]

with Avidit Acharya, AEJ-Micro, 2022

Robust Screens for Non-Competitive Bidding in Procurement Auctions [PDF] (repo)

with Sylvain Chassang, Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi, Econometrica, 2022

Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement [PDF] (supplement, repo)

with Sylvain Chassang, Journal of Political Economy, 2019

A Continuous Time Model of Bilateral Bargaining [PDF]

Games and Economic Behavior, 2019

Making Corruption Harder: Asymmetric Information, Collusion and Crime [PDF] (supplement)

with Sylvain Chassang, Journal of Political Economy, 2018 

Progressive Learning [PDF] (supplement)

with Avidit Acharya, Econometrica, 2017  

A Theory of Political Gridlock [PDF]

Theoretical Economics, 2017

Durable Goods Monopoly with Stochastic Costs [PDF]

Theoretical Economics, 2017

Direct Implementation with Minimally Honest Individuals [PDF]

Games and Economic Behavior, 2015

Delays and Partial Agreements in Multi-Issue Bargaining [PDF]

with Avidit Acharya, Journal of Economic Theory, 2013 (older version with additional results [PDF])

Optimism, Delay and (In)Efficiency in a Stochastic Model of Bargaining [PDF]

Games and Economic Behavior, 2013