I am an Associate Professor of Economics and Gilbert F. Schaefer Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame. My research and teaching focus on microeconomic theory. I am interested in auctions, market design, matching markets, and economic networks.
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Maciej H. Kotowski
Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame
3060 Jenkins Nanovic Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
tel: +1 (574) 631-3418
email: mkotowsk@nd.edu
office: 3016 Jenkins Nanovic Hall [ map ]
office hours: By appointment only. [ Click here or email to schedule a meeting. ]
I am teaching the following courses in the 2024/25 academic year:
| Microeconomic Theory I [econ 60101 :: fall 2024] |
| The first half of the core sequence in microeconomic theory at the graduate level. Topics include consumer and producer theory, general equilibrium, and related topics. |
| [ pdf ] Syllabus | August 15, 2024. |
| Market Design [econ 40041 :: spring 2025] |
| An advanced undergraduate course on the theory and practice of market design, with focus on auctions, matching mechanisms, and platforms. |
| [ pdf ] Syllabus from Fall 2022 | August 22, 2022. |
Other recent courses:
| Contracts and Agency Theory [econ 70102 :: spring 2023] |
| Selected topics in mechanism design, contract theory, and agency theory. Intended for PhD students in economics and related disciplines. |
| [ pdf ] Syllabus | March 19, 2023. |
| Microeconomic Theory II [econ 60102 :: spring 2023] |
| The second half of the core sequence in microeconomic theory at the graduate level. Topics include game theory, information economics, and applications. |
| [ pdf ] Syllabus | January 7, 2023. |
| A Perfectly Robust Approach to Multiperiod Matching Problems |
| [ link ] Journal of Economic Theory 222:105919, 2024. |
| The Property Rights Theory of Production Networks (with Ivan Balbuzanov) |
| [ link ] Theoretical Economics 19(4):1619–1658, 2024. |
| The Demand For Protection and the Persistently High Rates of Gun Violence Among Young Black Males (with William N. Evans) |
| [ link ] Journal of Public Economics, 234:105114, 2024. |
| Economies with Complex Property Rights: The Role of Exclusion (with Ivan Balbuzanov) |
| [ link ] ACM SIGecom Exchanges 19(1):30-44, 2021. |
| First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints |
| [ link ] Theoretical Economics 15(1):199-237, 2020. |
| Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange (with Ivan Balbuzanov) |
| [ link ] Econometrica 87(5):1663-1692, 2019. |
| Multiperiod Matching (with Sangram V. Kadam) |
| [ link ] International Economic Review 59(4):1927-1947, 2018. |
| Time Horizons, Lattice Structures, and Welfare in Multi-period Matching Markets (with Sangram V. Kadam) |
| [ link ] Games and Economic Behavior 112:1-20, 2018. |
| Liquidity Risk in Sequential Trading Networks (with Shachar Kariv and C. Matthew Leister) |
| [ link ] Games and Economic Behavior 109:565-581, 2018 |
| On Asymmetric Reserve Prices |
| [ link ] Theoretical Economics 13(1):205-238, 2018. |
| If Many Seek, Ye Shall Find: Search Externalities and New Goods (with Richard J. Zeckhauser) |
| [ link ] American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 9(4):42-73, 2017. |
| Bribing in First-Price Auctions: Corrigendum (with Shiran Rachmilevitch) |
| [ link ] Games and Economic Behavior 87:616-618, 2014. |
| Rules and Standards when Compliance Costs are Private Information (with David A. Weisbach and Richard J. Zeckhauser) |
| [ link ] Journal of Legal Studies 43(S2):S297-S329, 2014. |
| The War of Attrition and the Revelation of Valuable Information (with Fei Li) |
| [ link ] Economics Letters 124:420-423, 2014. |
| Audits as Signals (with David A. Weisbach and Richard J. Zeckhauser) |
| [ link ] University of Chicago Law Review 81(1):179-202, 2014. |
| On the Continuous Equilibria of Affiliated-Value, All-Pay Auctions with Private Budget Constraints (with Fei Li) |
| [ link ] Games and Economic Behavior 85:84-108, 2014. |
| Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty: Comment |
| [ link ] Games and Economic Behavior 72(2):448-451, 2011. |
| Efficient Division When Preferences are Private: Using the Expected Externality Mechanism (with Christina Aperjis and Richard J. Zeckhauser) |
| [ link ] HKS Faculty Research Working Paper RWP19-014 | March 19, 2019. |