Department of Economics
M.I.T., E52-252C
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 253-6407
Fax: (617) 253-6915
E-mail: athey@mit.edu
http://mit.edu/athey/www/

PERSONAL

Born November 29, 1970.
U.S. citizen.

EDUCATION

Duke University 

Majors in economics, mathematics, and computer science.
Magna Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Dissertation: “Comparative Statics in Stochastic Problems with Applications.”
Advisors: Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (co-chairs), Edward Lazear.

CURRENT POSITIONS

1999-present Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1997-present Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research.

PAST POSITIONS

1997-1999 Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

OTHER POSITIONS

1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University.
May, 1998 Visiting Professor, I.D.E.I. Toulouse.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• NBER, Faculty Research Fellow, 1997-.
• Co-editor, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1997-2001.
• Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001-.
• Associate Editor, B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics, 2000-.
• Program Committee, Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, 1997 and 1998; 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society, 2000; Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, 2001.

HONORS

• Elaine Bennett Research Award, 2001.
• Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 2000.
• Undergraduate Economics Association Teaching Award, 1995-1996.
• Review of Economic Studies Tour, 1995.
• Stanford University Lieberman Fellow, 1994-1995.
• State Farm Dissertation Award in Business, 1994.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994.
• Jaedicke Scholar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1992-1993.
• Mary Love Collins Scholarship, Chi Omega Foundation, 1991-1992.
• Duke University Alice Baldwin Memorial Scholarship, 1990-1991.

GRANTS AND RESEARCH AWARDS

• “Private Information in Auctions, Pricing Games, and Ongoing  Relationships,” NSF CAREER Award No. SES-9983820.
• “Bidding Behavior in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions,” MIT Provost's Fund for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Award, 1997.
• “Empirical Tests for Complementarities: A Structural  Approach,” MIT Sloan School of Management, Creative Research Award, 1996 (with Scott Stern).
• “Comparative Statics: Theory and an Empirical Framework for Testing Predictions,” NSF Grant No. SBR-9631760.
• “Product and Process Innovation,” William Miller Fund, Stanford GSB.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1. “Product and Process Flexibility in an Innovative Environment, “(with Armin Schmutzler), RAND Journal of Economics, 26 (4) Winter1995: 557-574.
2. “Mentoring and Diversity," (with Chris Avery and Peter Zemsky), American Economic Review 90 (4) September 2000: 765-786.
3. “Information and Competition in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions,” (with Jonathan Levin), Journal of Political Economy, 109 (2), April 2001.
4. “Investment and Market Dominance,” (with Armin Schmutzler), RAND Journal of Economics 32 (1), Spring 2001: 1-26.
5. “Monotone Comparative Statics Under Uncertainty,”  forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics.
6. “Single Crossing Properties and the Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information,” forthcoming in Econometrica.
7. “Optimal Collusion with Private Information,” (with Kyle Bagwell), forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics.

BOOKS/PAPERS & PROCEEDINGS/CONFERENCE VOLUMES

1. Robust Comparative Statics (with Paul Milgrom and John Roberts), research monograph (draft form).
2. “Information Technology and      Training in Emergency Call  Centers.”  (with Scott Stern).      Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meetings (New York, Jan 3-5, 1999). Madison, WI: Industrial Relations  Research Association, pp. 53-60.
3. “Adoption and Impact of Advanced Technologies in Emergency Response Systems,” (with Scott Stern), in The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions, David Cutler, ed.  University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 113-155.
4. “Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts,” (with John Roberts), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2001.

WORKING PAPERS/UNDER REVIEW

1. “Characterizing Properties of Stochastic Objective Functions,”  MIT Working Paper 96-1R. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory.
2. “The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes,”(with Scott Stern), NBER Working Paper 7887.  Revise & Resubmit, RAND Journal of Economics.
3. “Identification in Standard Auctions,” (with Philip Haile).  MIT Working Paper No. 00-18. Revise & Resubmit, Econometrica.
4. “Investment and Information Value for a Risk-Averse Firm,” MIT Working Paper No. 00-30.  Revise & Resubmit, B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics.
5. “The Value of Information in Monotone Decision Problems” (with Jonathan Levin), MIT Working Paper No. 98-24, November 1998.
6. “Collusion and Price Rigidity,” (with Kyle Bagwell and Chris Sanchirico).  MIT Working Paper 98-23.
7. “An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories about Complementarities in Organizational Design,” (with Scott Stern).  NBER Working Paper 6600, February 1998.
8. “Authority and Incentives,” (with John Roberts), Mimeo, Stanford, 2001.
9. “On the Optimality of Transparent Monetary Policy,” (with Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe), Mimeo, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, 2001.
10. “The Allocation of Decisions in Organizations,” (with Joshua Gans and Scott Stern), Mimeo, MIT, 1996.

TEACHING

• Graduate: Contract Theory, Microeconomic Theory.
• Undergraduate: Intermediate Applied Microeconomics.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member: Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
• Referee for: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Industrial Relations, International Economic Review, International Review of Finance and Economics, Journal of Econometrics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, National Science Foundation, RAND Journal of Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal.