Aaron Bodoh Creed

Primary Fields:

Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics

Secondary Fields:

Political Economics, Organizational Economics, Finance

Publications

• Bodoh-Creed, A. (2019) Optimizing for Distributional Goals in School Choice Problems, Management Science, forthcoming.

• Bodoh-Creed, A.; J. Boehnke; and B. Hickman (2019) How Efficient are Decentralized Auction Platforms?, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
  Expanded Theoretical Version (under title: Approximation of Large Dynamic Games)

• Bernheim, B.D. and Bodoh-Creed, A. (2019) A Theory of Decisive Leadership, Games and Economic Behavior, Conditionally Accepted

• Bodoh-Creed, A. (2019) Institutional Selection, Building Trust, and Economic Growth, Games and Economic Behavior, 114, pp. 169-176.
  Original submission with online appendices

• Bodoh-Creed, A. (2019) Mood, Memory, and Biased Beliefs and Actions, Review of Finance, forthcoming.

• Bodoh-Creed, A. and B. Hickman (2018) College Assignment as a Large Contest, Journal of Economic Theory, 175, pp. 88-126.
  Working Paper

• N. Augenblick and A. Bodoh-Creed (2017) To Reveal or Not to Reveal: Privacy Preferences and Economic Frictions Games and Economic Behavior, 110, p. 318-329.
  Older Version (under title: Conversations About Type: Privacy, Grammars and Taboos)

• Bodoh-Creed, A. (2013) Efficiency and information aggregation in large uniform-price auctions, Journal of Economic Theory, 148 (6), p. 2436 - 2466.

• Bodoh-Creed, A. (2012) Ambiguous Beliefs and Mechanism Design, Games and Economic Behavior, 75, p. 518-537.
  Correction to Ambiguous Beliefs and Mechanism Design

Under Review

• Identifying the Sources of Returns to College Education Using Affirmative Action (with Brent Hickman) Abstract
  R&R at Econometrica

• Using Machine Learning to Explain Price Dispersion (with Joern Boehnke and Brent Hickman) Abstract

• Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines (with C.L. Benkard and J. Lazarev) Abstract

• Pervasive Signaling (with B.D. Bernheim) Abstract
  Previously circulated as "Costless Signaling with Costly Signals"

Working Papers

• Base-Rate Neglect: Foundations and Implications (with D. Benjamin and M. Rabin)
  
• Risk and Conflation in Matching Markets (Online Appendix)

Works in Progress

• Incentives as Opinions
• The Non-pecuniary Effects of College (with B. Hickman)

Older Projects

• Legal Competition in the Medieval World Abstract

Honors and Awards

• Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship
• SIEPR Bradley Research Fellowship
• Banneker-Key Full Scholarship

Education

• PhD Stanford University (2005 — 2010)
• B.S. University of Maryland College Park (1997 — 2001)

Companies

• Senior Economist Amazon (2020)
• Assistant Professor Haas School of Business (2013 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2013 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Cornell University (2010 — 2013)
• Physicist and Software Engineer Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (2002 — 2005)