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CONTACT: simon.finster@ensae.fr
I am a postdoctoral fellow at CREST (ENSAE and Institut Polytechnique de Paris) in the Inria group FairPlay, hosted by Patrick Loiseau and Bary Pradelski. I received my PhD from the University of Oxford, Nuffield College, where I was advised by Paul Klemperer.
My research is on auctions and market design, industrial organization and experimental economics.
In the fall term 2023, I was an Associate Fellow at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Berkeley.
I enjoy bringing market design to the lab and field and develop solutions for real-world problems. For indivisible goods markets, I have developed a framework for preferences over how goods should be partitioned between buyers. We also devised pooled testing mechanisms for infectious diseases in populations with heterogeneous welfare weights. We reconcile welfare and revenue concerns in quasi-Fisher markets, and I study strategic behavior in multi-object auctions.
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May 2025 -- My solo paper Selling Multiple Complements with Packaging Costs and our joint paper Equitable Auctions are accepted at EC'25
May 2025 -- I'm giving talks at Luiss University in Rome and the Paris School of Economics
April 2025 -- Our paper Competitive and Revenue-Optimal Pricing with Budgets is accepted for publication at Theoretical Economics
March 2025 -- We are organizing GAIMSS'25, the second edition of our summer school + conference on game theory in Toulouse, and are officially funded by the ACM
January 2025 -- I'm giving invited talks at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Séminaire parisien de Théorie des Jeux, the Chaire Économie du Climat, and the Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (CES) in Paris
November 2024 -- I'm presenting at the Economic Theory Workshop in Oxford, at CEPS/ENS-Saclay, and the Virtual Market Design Seminar
June 2024 -- We were fortunate to welcome 44 students and 17 speakers at GAIMSS'24, deeply indebted to our distinguished professors Nicolas Vieille (HEC Paris), Roberto Cominetti (UAI Chile) and Panayotis Mertikopoulos (CNRS Grenoble)
June 2024 -- This summer you can meet me in Nashville (NASMES), Metz (GAIMSS), Budapest (CMID), Rotterdam (ESEM), Amsterdam (EARIE), and Oxford (MATCH-UP)
Dec 2023 -- We are organizing GAIMSS'24, a multidisciplinary summer school and conference on game theory in June 2024 in Metz/France
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