Prof. Dr. Dezsö Szalay
© Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Office hours
By appointment. Please send an email.Teaching
- Microeconomics (Master)
- Research Module in Microeconomic Theory
- Spieltheorie / Game Theory (Engl.)
Administrative assistant
Affilations
Research interests
- Contract Theory,
- Economics of Information
- Financial Contracting
- Industrial Organization
- Game Theory
Curriculum vitae
Publications
Articles
- Communication in the shadow of catastrophe (joint with Inga Deimen), J. Econ. Theory 222 (2024) 105916
- Information and Communication in Organizations (joint with Inga Deimen), AEA p&p, 2019, Vol 109 (May), 545-49.
- Delegated Expertise, Authority, and Communication (joint with Inga Deimen), American Economic Review, 2019, Vol 109(4), 1349-74.
- Cash breeds Success: The Role of Financing Constraints in Patent Races (joint with Enrique Schroth), Review of Finance, 2010, Vol 14(1), 73-118.
- Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs (joint with Paul Beaudry and Charles Blackorby), American Economic Review, 2009, Vol. 99(1) pp. 216-242.
- Contracts with Endogenous Information Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, Vol. 65, 586-625.
- The Economics of Extreme Options and Clear Advice Review of Economic Studies, 2005, 72, 1173-1198.
Older Papers:
- Authority in a theory of the firm (2020), (joint with Inga Deimen)
- Smooth, strategic communication (2014), (joint with Inga Deimen); this is a predecessor version of the two papers published in 2019.
- Managerial Incentive Problems and Return Distributions (October 2014), (joint with Venuga Yokeeswaran).
- Pricing a package of services (2014), (joint with Felix Ketelaar).
- Regulating a Multiproduct and Multitype Monopolist (March 2013).
- Strategic Information Transmission and Stochastic Orders (September 2012).
- Sequential Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights (September 2008), (joint with Frederic Payot).
- Monopoly, Non-linear Pricing, and Imperfect Information: A Reconsideration of the Insurance Market (September 2008).
- Regulating a Monopolist with unknown costs and unknown quality capacity (June 2008), (joint with Chuck Blackorby).
- Innnovation Races and the Strategic Role of Cash Holdings: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patents (October 2007), (joint with Enrique Schroth).
- Multidimensional Screening, Affiliation, and Full Separation (June 2007), (joint with Chuck Blackorby).
- Communicating with a Team of Experts (November 2005), (joint with Ramon Arean).
Active Working Papers & Work in Progress
- Creating Experts: Optimal Delegation vs Information Design (joint with Sopie Kreutzkamp & Péter Esö)
- Brevity (2020), (joint with Peter Esö).
- Advice from an overconfident sender
- Optimal Contracting and Strategic Interaction (joint with Armin Schmutzler and Enrique
Schroth)
Press articles
- Formule magique, collégialité, bientôt concordance sous le feu de l'UDC? (avec Ramon Arean, apparu 21 septembre 2004 dans Le Temps)