Dirk Bergemann is the Douglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. He received his Vordiplom in

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...

in 1989, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

in 1992 and 1993, respectively. Bergemann's research is concerned with

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed ...

contract theory From a legal point of view, a contract is an institutional arrangement for the way in which resources flow, which defines the various relationships between the parties to a transaction or limits the rights and obligations of the parties. From an ...

and

mechanism design Mechanism design (sometimes implementation theory or institution design) is a branch of economics and game theory. It studies how to construct rules—called Game form, mechanisms or institutions—that produce good outcomes according to Social ...

. His research has been supported by grants from the

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the German National Science Foundation. Bergemann is the foreign editor for the ''

Review of Economic Studies ''The Review of Economic Studies'' (also known as ''REStud'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics. The journal is widely considered one of the top 5 journals in economics. It is managed by the editorial board currently ...

'', and the associate editor of several other publications, including '' American Economic Journal'', ''Econometrica'', ''Games and Economic Behavior'', and the ''

Journal of Economic Theory The ''Journal of Economic Theory'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of economic theory. Karl Shell has served as editor-in-chief of the journal since it was established in 1968. Since 2000, he has shared the editor ...

''. Bergemann has made important contributions to the theory of mechanism design. In his work with Stephen Morris on robust mechanism design, they relaxed common knowledge assumptions which were prevalent in the early mechanism design literature. By formulating the mechanism design problem more precisely, they showed that simple mechanisms arise endogenously. This provided a theoretical justification for the relatively simple

auction An auction is usually a process of Trade, buying and selling Good (economics), goods or Service (economics), services by offering them up for Bidding, bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from th ...

designs employed in practice, when compared to the complexity of optimal auctions suggested by the early literature. Bergemann has also pioneered work with

consumer behavior Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services. It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affe ...

around dynamic

pricing Pricing is the Business process, process whereby a business sets and displays the price at which it will sell its products and services and may be part of the business's marketing plan. In setting prices, the business will take into account the ...

structures. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.

Publications

1. “Robust Monopoly Pricing”, 2011, Journal of Economic Theory, 146, 2527–2543, joint with Karl Schlag. 2. “Mechanism Design with Limited Information: The Case of Nonlinear Pricing”, 2011 2nd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Shanghai, 2011, joint with Ji Shen, Yun Xu, and Edmund Yeh. 3. “Targeting in

Advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a Product (business), product or Service (economics), service. Advertising aims to present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages, and qualities of int ...

Markets: Implications for Online vs Online Media”, 2011, RAND Journal of Economics, 42, 414-443 (lead article) joint with Alessandro Bonatti. 4. “Rationalizable Implementation”, 2011, Journal of Economic Theory, 146, 1253–1274, joint with Stephen Morris and Olivier Tercieux. 5. “Robust Implementation in General Mechanisms”, 2011, Games and Economic Behavior, 71, 261–281, joint with Stephen Morris. 6. “The Dynamic Pivot Mechanism”, 2010, Econometrica, 78, 771–789, joint with Juuso Valimaki. 7. “Robust Implementation in Direct Mechanisms” 2009, Review of Economic Studies, 76, 1175–1204, (lead article), joint with Stephen Morris. 8. “Information Acquisition in Interdependent Value Auctions”2009, Journal of the European Economic Association, 7, 61-89, joint with Xianwen Shi and Juuso Valimaki. 9. “Robust Virtual Implementation” 2009, Theoretical Economics, 4, 45–88, joint with Stephen Morris. 10. “The Role of the Common Prior in Robust Implementation”, 2008, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 6, 551–559, joint with Stephen Morris. 11. “Pricing without Priors”, 2008, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 6, 560–569, joint with Karl Schlag. 12. “Ex Post Implementation” 2008, Games and Economic Behavior, 63, 527–566, joint with Stephen Morris. 13. “Information Structures in Optimal Auctions”, 2007, Journal of Economic Theory, 137, 580–609, joint with Martin Pesendorfer. 14. “Dynamic Pricing of New Experience Goods”, 2006, Journal of Political Economy, 114, 713–743, joint with Juuso Valimaki. 15. “Optimal Pricing with Recommender Systems”, 2006, Proceedings of ACM-EC 06; 43–51, ACM Press, New York, joint with Deran Ozmen. 16. “Efficient Recommender Systems”, 2006, Proceedings of IEEE-CEC 06; joint with Deran Ozmen. 17. “Dynamic Price Competition”, 2006, Journal of Economic Theory, 127, 232–263, joint with Juuso Valimaki. 18. “Flexibility as an Instrument in Digital Rights Management,”2005, Proceedings of Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS), joint with Thomas Eisenbach, Joan Feigenbaum, and Scott Shenker. 19. “The Financing of Innovation”, 2005, RAND Journal of Economics, 36, 719–752, (lead article) joint with Ulrich Hege.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergemann, Dirk Living people Fellows of the Econometric Society Goethe University Frankfurt alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Yale University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the European Economic Association