Ilya R. Segal is an economist who is currently Roy and Betty Anderson Professor in the Department of Economics at

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''. His research focuses on microeconomic theory, particularly

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, mechanism design and

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. His research interests include the design of competition policy, property rights, contracts, auctions, and other economic mechanisms. Segal has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and member of the Toulouse Network for Information Technology. His other awards include Compass Lexecon prize for “the most significant contribution to the understanding and implementation of competition policy,” a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Hoover Fellowship.

Biography

Segal obtained his MS in applied mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1991 and PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1995. He joined the University of California, Berkeley shortly after receiving his PhD in 1995 and worked as an assistant professor of economics until 1998 before moving to

in 1999 as an assistant professor of economics and professor in the humanities and sciences since 2002. Segal has also received a courtesy appointment at the

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in 2004. He has been foreign editor of '' The Review of Economic Studies'' since 2010, associate editor of '' Econometrica'' since 2015 and editor-in-chief of ''

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'' since 2017, and was associate editor of '' Journal of Economic Theory'' in the period 2013–2015. Segal was awarded a

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in the period 2002–2003. He was elected an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2013 and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Segal is fluent in Russian, English and Ukrainian, and has also basic command in

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Selected publications

* Segal, I. (1999).
Contracting with externalities
. '' The Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 114 (2), pp. 337-388. * Segal, I. (1999).
Complexity and renegotiation: A foundation for incomplete contracts
. '' The Review of Economic Studies'', 66 (1), pp. 57-82. * Segal, I. (2000).
Naked exclusion: comment
. '' The American Economic Review'', 90 (1), pp. 296-309. * Milgrom, P. & I. Segal (2002).
Envelope theorems for arbitrary choice sets
. '' Econometrica'', 70 (2), pp. 583-601. * Segal, I. (2003).
Optimal pricing mechanisms with unknown demand
. ''The American Economic Review'', 93 (3), pp. 509-529. * Nisan, N. & I. Segal (2006).
The communication requirements of efficient allocations and supporting prices
. '' Journal of Economic Theory'', 129 (1), pp. 192-224. * Segal, I. & M. D. Whinston (2007).
Antitrust in innovative industries
. ''The American Economic Review'', 97 (5), pp. 1703-1730. * Rayo, L. & I. Segal (2010).
Optimal information disclosure
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'', 118 (5), pp. 949-987. * Athey, S. & I. Segal (2013).
An efficient dynamic mechanism
. ''Econometrica'', 81 (6), pp. 2463-2485. * Pavan, A.; Segal, I. & J. Toikka (2014).
Dynamic mechanism design: A myersonian approach
. ''Econometrica'', 82 (2), pp. 601-653.

References

External links

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biography page at

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Segal, Ilya Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American economists Harvard University alumni Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Stanford University faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20th-century American economists