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 (with Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi)
[PDF]
(supplement, booklet with court rulings),
R&R Review of Economic Studies
Screening Adaptive
Cartels (with
Sylvain Chassang,
Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi)
[PDF]
A Theory of Security Issuance (with Martin Schmalz) [PDF]
Publications
Mediated Collusion (with Takuo
Sugaya and Alexander Wolitzky) [PDF],
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy
Regulating Collusion (with Sylvain Chassang)
[PDF],
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 (with Sylvain Chassang,
Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi)
[PDF],
Review of Economic Studies, 2023
Paths to the Frontier (with Avidit Acharya)
[PDF],
AEJ-Micro, 2022
Robust Screens for
Non-Competitive Bidding in Procurement Auctions (with Sylvain
Chassang, Kei
Kawai and Jun
Nakabayashi) [PDF]
(repo), Econometrica, 2022
Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence
from Public Procurement (with Sylvain
Chassang) [PDF]
(supplement, repo), 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 (with Sylvain
Chassang) [PDF]
(supplement), Journal of Political Economy, 2018
Progressive Learning (with Avidit Acharya)
[PDF]
(supplement), 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 (with Avidit Acharya)
[PDF],
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