Viplav Saini Office: Mergenthaler Hall 440 Cell Phone: (410) 952-0592 Office Phone: (410) 516-7601 Fax: (410) 516-7600 E-mail: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Thesis:

"Competition and Collusion in Dynamic Procurement Auctions." Abstract Advisors: Prof. Joe Harrington (JHU) and Prof. Matt Shum (CalTech)

Fields:

Industrial Organization (Theory and Empirical), Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics.

Research:

Job Market Paper
"Endogenous Asymmetry in a Dynamic Procurement Auction," PDF
Web Appendix (coming soon)

Papers in progress

"Dynamic Auction Design: Empirical Insights from Highway Procurement in California."

"Distinguishing Collusion from Competition with Capacity Constraints in Procurement Auctions," with Joe Harrington.

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

Federal Trade Commission
Washington DC, October 2008.

International Industrial Organization Conference
Arlington, VA, May 2008.

Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association
Vancouver, BC, June 2008.

La Pietra-Mondragone Workshop
Florence, June 30-July 2, 2008.

Teaching:

Instructor

Industrial Organization, Fall 2008

Elements of Microeconomics, Summer 2006-2008

Game Theory and the Social Sciences, Summer 2007

Seminar in Financial Literacy, Intersession 2007-2008
(joint with Prof. Louis Maccini)

Expository Writing: Understanding Globalization, Fall 2005
(writing-intensive)

Teaching Assistant

Intermediate Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory and the Social Sciences, Elements of Microeconomics

References

Professor Joe Harrington (primary) -

Professor Matthew Shum (secondary) -

Professor Bruce Hamilton (teaching reference) -

Professor Louis Maccini (teaching reference) -