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Contact Information
rabole@iu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Economics
Duke University, 2009
B.S. in Economics and Mathematics
New York University, 2001
Employment
Business Economics and Public Policy
Kelley School of Business
Indiana University
Associate Professor since July 2022
Weimer Faculty Fellow since July 2023
Department of Economics
Miami Herbert Business School
University of Miami
Associate Professor June 2016-June 2022
Assistant Professor August 2009-June 2016
Publications
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Maher Said. 2013.
”Progressive Screening: Long Term Contracting With a Privately Known Stochastic Process.”
Review of Economic Studies 80(1): 1-34
Boleslavsky, Raphael and David L. Kelly. 2014.
”Dynamic Regulation Design Without Monetary Payments: the Importance of Timing.”
Journal of Public Economics 120: 169-180
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2015.
”Information and Extremism in Elections.”
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 7(1): 165-207
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2015.
”Grading Standards and Education Quality.”
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 7(2): 248-79
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Tracy Lewis. 2016.
”Evolving Influence: Mitigating Extreme Conflicts of Interest in Advisory Relationships.”
Games and Economic Behavior, 98: 110-134
Boleslavsky, Raphael, David L. Kelly, and Curtis Taylor. 2017.
”Selloffs, Bailouts, and Feedback: Can Asset Markets Inform Policy?”
Journal of Economic Theory 169: 294-343
Boleslavsky, Raphael, Christopher Cotton, and Haresh Gurnani. 2017.
”Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release.”
Management Science, 63(6): 2016-2026
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2018.
”Limited Capacity in Project Selection: Competition Through Evidence Production.”
Economic Theory, 65(2): 385-421
Boleslavsky, Raphael, Mehdi Shadmehr, and Konstantin Sonin. 2021.
”Media Freedom in the Shadow of Coup.”
Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(3): 1782-1815
Shadmehr, Mehdi and Raphael Boleslavsky. 2022.
”Institutions, Repression, and the Spread of Protest.”
Journal of Politics, 84(1):148-165
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Hennessy and David L. Kelly. 2022.
”Markets vs. Mechanisms.”
Review of Financial Studies, 35(7): 3139-3174
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Curtis Taylor. 2024.
”Make It ‘Til You Fake It”
Journal of Economic Theory, accepted
Working Papers
Competitive Advertising and Pricing (with Ilwoo Hwang and Kyungmin Kim) R&R Review of Economic Studies
Judicial Independence and Government Repression in Autocracies (with Mehdi Shadmehr and Tom Ginsburg)
Bayesian Persuasion and Moral Hazard (with Kyungmin Kim) R&R American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Disincentive Effects of Evaluation (with Bruce Carlin and Christopher Cotton)
Waiting for Fake News
Evaluating Applicants: Prestige vs. Merit
Signaling With Commitment (with Mehdi Shadmehr)
Work In Progress
Political Power and Obstruction
Conference Presentations
Workshop in Applied and Theoretical Economics, Apr 2021
Allied Social Science Association, Jan 2019
Southern Economics Association, Nov 2018
Multi-U IO/NBER Organizations, Nov 2018
Transparency in Procurement, May 2018
Canadian Public Economic Group (Discussant), Nov 2017
Econometric Society European Meeting, Aug 2017
Allied Social Science Association, Jan 2017
American Political Science Association, Sep 2016
Midwest Economic Theory, Apr 2016
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Jul 2015
Midwest Economic Theory, May 2014
TOI 6, Jul 2013
Economics of Organizations Workshop #3, Jun 2013
World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Jun 2012
North American Summer Meetings of Econometric Society, Jun 2012
First Caribbean Game Theory Conference, Jan 2012
Multi-U IO Conference, Nov 2011
Midwest Economic Theory, Nov 2011
Invited Seminars
University of Chicago (Booth), Oct 2021
Indiana University (Kelley), Sept 2021
Texas A&M University (Virtual), Jan 2021
Diego Portales University (Virtual), Oct 2020
PennTheon (Penn State Virtual), July 2020
Duke University, Mar 2020
University of Pennsylvania, Dec 2019
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Oct 2019
University of Texas Austin, Finance, Sep 2019
University of Texas Austin, Economics, Mar 2019
University of Southern California, Dec 2018
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Finance, Dec 2018
Florida State University, Mar 2018
Northwestern University, Oct 2018
University of Central Florida, Mar 2017
Boston Federal Reserve, Apr 2015
University of North Carolina, Jan 2015
Drexel University, Jan 2015
Emory University, Jan 2015
University of Toronto, Oct 2014
Universite Quebec a Montreal, Sep 2014
Queen’s University, Sep 2014
University of Iowa, Sep 2014
Duke University, Jun 2012
Texas A&M, Sep 2011
Florida Atlantic University, Nov 2010
Boston University, Nov 2010
Northwestern University, Nov 2010
Teaching
ECO444: Game Theory in Economic Applications, undergraduate elective
ECO510: Mathematical Economics, undergraduate elective
ECO300: Intermediate Microeconomics (Without Calculus), undergraduate core
ECO533: Advanced Microeconomics, Ph.D. core
ECO634: Advanced Microeconomics III, Ph.D. elective
Awards and Grants
Provost Research Award
January 2021
University of Miami
William C. Johnson Jr. Faculty Research Award
April 2016
Miami Herbert Business School
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Grant Collaborator
Grant managed by Bard Harstad
PI: Christian Traeger
Service
School Committees
Miami Herbert Business School Council, 2017-2022
Miami Herbert Business School Committee on Standards, since May 2020-May 2021
Advising
Huaqing Wang (management, committee member)
Cheng Li (economics, committee member)
Sercan Demir (engineering, committee member)
Hewen Liu (economics, co-chair)
Chris Paik (economics, committee member)
Professional Activities
Board of Editors, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Referee:
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
American Economic Review
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
Econometrica
Economic Journal
Economic Letters
Economic Theory
Environmental and Resource Economics
Games and Economic Behavior
International Economic Review
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of the European Economic Association
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Finance
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations
Journal of Public Economics
Management Science
Operations Research
Rand Journal of Economics
Review of Economic Design
Review of Economic Studies
Theoretical Economics