David Ahn is a Professor of Economics at the Olin Business School, specializing in economic theory with a focus on voting theory, mechanism design, game theory, and decision theory. He has held editorial roles in journals like Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory. Before joining Olin, he was a Professor in the Economics Department of UC Berkeley. Currently, he is actively involved in the WUSTL Cluster Hire Review Committee and the Olin Racial Equity Task Force.
Ana Babus is an Associate Professor of Economics. Prior to joining WUSTL in 2017, Ana Babus was a financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Previously, she served as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, a postdoc at Princeton University’s Bendheim Center for Finance, and an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London. Babus’ research has appeared in journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, and RAND Journal of Economics. Her recent research topics include over-the-counter markets and financial intermediation.
Mariagiovanna Baccara is a Professor of Economics at the Olin Business School. She is a fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), and she holds editorial positions at the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Theoretical Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and other leading academic journals. Currently, her main research interests involve matching, the markets for information, and organization theory. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2003, and she was faculty at NYU Stern before joining Olin.
Marcus Berliant is a mathematical economist at WUSTL who works primarily in urban economics and public finance. After graduating from Cornell University as a College Scholar with a BA in nothing in particular, he received an MA in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley with Betty Scott as his adviser, and then a Ph.D. in economics as Gerard Debreu’s advisee. His first job was at the University of Rochester, a cold and distant outpost, where he interacted with many faculty including Lionel McKenzie and Bill Riker, both of whom had a big impact on his research. Moving to WUSTL in 1994, he received the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards in 2000 and 2002 for his work with graduate students, and was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2005 and a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2023. Uncle Marcus is fond of dogs and his graduate students, 42 of whom have completed their doctorates and one of whom was his boss.
Armando Gomes is an Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, specializing in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and economics. His research leverages game theory and economic tools to develop and assess models, with a focus on recurring themes such as asymmetric information, incentive problems, and topics related to bargaining and contracting. Prior to joining Olin, Armando was at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Brett Green is an economist and a Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School. Prior to joining Olin, Brett was a tenured associate professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a M.S. in financial mathematics from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree of science in economics and engineering from Duke University. His areas of expertise include financial economics, corporate finance, contract theory, and microeconomic theory. In his research, Brett studies the behavior of strategic agents in dynamic settings with an emphasis on the role of learning in markets with information frictions. Recently, he has been working on how to design contracts to make credit markets more efficient in developing countries. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics.
SangMok Lee is an Associate Professor of Economics, specializing in microeconomic theory, matching, and revealed preferences. His current research focuses on dynamic matching markets using queues and exchange economies with indivisible goods. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 2012 and joined the economics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as a lecturer before becoming an Assistant Professor. In the fall of 2017, he joined WUSTL.
John Nachbar is a professor in the WUSTL Department of Economics. He is a microeconomic theorist who has worked in both general equilibrium theory and game theory. He is particularly known for his work on the learning and evolutionary foundations of equilibrium in games. He is a fellow of both the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
Paulo Natenzon is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Olin Business School. His areas of expertise include Economic Theory, Decision Theory, and Behavioral Economics. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Journal of Political Economy. He got a PhD in Economics from Princeton in 2011.
Werner Ploberger is Thomas H. Eliot Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. His research focus is in the areas of statistics, econometric methodology and time-series econometrics. Prior to joining WashU in 2006, he has been affiliated with Vienna University of Technology (Austria), the University of St. Andrew (Scotland) and the University of Rochester. He was tenured in 1993 (Vienna University of Technology) and promoted to full in 1995 (University of St. Andrews). Werner received his Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics at Vienna University of Technology in 1981 and his Habilitation in Econometrics there in 1993.
Brian Rogers is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Missouri Social Science Experimental Laboratory. He specializes in microeconomic theory, in particular the fields of network formation, social learning, and applied game theory. Prior to joining WUSTL in 2013, Brian was an Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology.
Jonathan Weinstein is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at WUSTL. His research focuses on microeconomic theory and game theory. Before joining WUSTL in 2013, he served as an Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.
M. Bumin Yenmez is a professor in the WUSTL Department of Economics. He studies economic design, recently focusing on affirmative action and diversity issues. Policies that he helped design have been adopted in various settings, such as assigning students to schools in New York and Chile, and state-level vaccine allocation. He taught at Boston College and Carnegie Mellon University and worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research New England before joining WUSTL in the summer of 2023. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Economic Theory. He received his bachelor’s degree at the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate at Stanford University.