Nima Haghpanah

I am an associate professor of Economics at Penn State. I study mechanism design, information design, and price discrimination.

Here is my resume.

Work in Progress

• A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations
  • With Ron Siegel
  • Slides
• Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination
  • With Maryam Farboodi, Ali Shourideh
  • Status: In progress
• Screening Two Types
  • With Ron Siegel
  • Slides

Publications

• Buying from a Group
  • With Aditya Kuvalekar, Elliot Lipnowski
  • American Economic Review, 2024
• Pareto Improving Segmentation of Multi-Product Markets
  • With Ron Siegel
  • Journal of Political Economy, 2023
• Sequential Mechanisms with ex-post IR
  • With Itai Ashlagi, Constantinos Daskalakis
  • Operations Research, 2023
• The Limits of Multi-Product Price Discrimination
  • With Ron Siegel
  • American Economic Review: Insights, 2022
• How to Sell Hard Information
  • With S. Nageeb Ali, Xiao Lin, Ron Siegel
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
• When Is Pure Bundling Optimal?
  • With Jason Hartline
  • Review of Economic Studies, 2021
• Full Surplus Extraction from Samples
  • With Hu Fu, Jason Hartline, Robert Kleinberg
  • Journal of Economic Theory, 2021
• Optimal Multi-Unit Mechanisms with Private Demands
  • With Nikhil Devanur, Alex Psomas
  • Games and Economic Behavior, 2020
• Efficient Computation of Optimal Auctions via Reduced Forms
  • With Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Jason Hartline, Azarakhsh Malekian
  • Mathematics of Operations Research, 2019
• Revenue Maximization with Non-excludable Goods
  • With MohammadHossein Bateni, Balu Sivan, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
  • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2015
• Optimal Auctions with Positive Network Externalities
  • With Nicole Immorlica, Vahab Mirrokni, Kamesh Munagala
  • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2013
• Equilibrium Pricing with Positive Externalities
  • With Nima Anari, Shayan Ehsani, Mohammad Ghodsi, Nicole Immorlica, Hamid Mahini, Vahab Mirrokni
  • Theoretical Computer Science, 2013

Conference Papers

• Exchange Market Mechanisms without Money
  • With Zeinab Abbassi, Vahab Mirrokni
  • Workshop on Internet & Network Economics (WINE), 2015
• The Simple Economics of Approximately Optimal Auctions
  • With Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Jason Hartline
  • IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2013
• Optimal Iterative Pricing over Social Networks
  • With Hessamedin Akhlaghpour, Mohammad Ghodsi, Hamid Mahini, Vahab Mirrokni, Afshin Nikzad
  • Workshop on Internet & Network Economics (WINE), 2010

Thesis

• Optimal Multi-parameter Auction Design
  • Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2014