Alexander Frankel

Alexander Frankel studies mechanism design, game theory, and contracting. In addition to researching at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Chicago Booth, he has worked outside of academia at Yahoo! Research. Frankel’s recent papers include “Aligned Delegation,” published in the American Economic Review, and “Suspense and Surprise,”published in the Journal of Political Economy.

Frankel earned his BS (mathematics) and BA (economics) from the University of Chicago before pursuing his PhD in economic analysis and policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Other Interests Politics, the internet.

Research Activities Mechanism design, repeated games, and contract theory.

Working Papers

Information Hierarchies (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica) September 2019 View Abstract

Improving Information from Manipulable Data (with Navin Kartik) arXiv First version posted August 2019; Updated September 2019 View Abstract

Which Findings Should Be Published? (with Max Kasy) First version posted June 2018; Updated April 2019 View Abstract

Selecting Applicants First version posted May 2015; Updated February 2019 Revision requested at Econometrica View Abstract

Forthcoming and Published Papers

Quantifying Information and Uncertainty (with Emir Kamenica) American Economic Review, October 2019 [109(10):3650-3680] View Abstract

Muddled Information (with Navin Kartik) Journal of Political Economy, August 2019 [127(4):1739-1776] View Abstract

A Note on Interval Delegation (with Manuel Amador and Kyle Bagwell) Economic Theory Bulletin, October 2018 [6(2):239-249] View Abstract

What Kind of Central Bank Competence? (with Navin Kartik) Theoretical Economics, May 2018 [13:697-728] An earlier version with a different focus was circulated under the title What Kind of Transparency? View Abstract

Discounted Quotas Journal of Economic Theory, November 2016 [166:396-444] View Abstract

Delegating Multiple Decisions AEJ: Micro, November 2016 [8(4):16-53] View Abstract

Suspense and Surprise (with Jeff Ely and Emir Kamenica) Online Appendix Journal of Political Economy, February 2015 [123(1):215-260] Press: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Freakonomics (1), Freakonomics (2) View Abstract

Taxation of Couples under Assortative Mating AEJ: Policy, August 2014 [6(3):155-177] View Abstract

Aligned Delegation Online Appendix American Economic Review, January 2014 [104(1):66-83] View Abstract

Experts and Their Records (with Michael Schwarz) Economic Inquiry, January 2014 [52(1):56-71] View Abstract