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Associate Professor 
Department of Economics
University of Lausanne

E-mail: rustamdjan.hakimov@unil.ch

Address: University of Lausanne, Internef 536, Quartier de Chamberonne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcome to my webpage. I am an Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne (since August 2022). 
My research interests are behavioral and experimental economics, matching markets, and market design.
Education

Technical University Berlin, Doctor of Economic Science, 2016

  • Dissertation title: Three essays on behavioral market design. Summa cum laude

  • Main advisor: Dorothea Kübler

  • PhD courses by Berlin doctoral program in economics and management science (2010-2013)

Humboldt University Berlin

M.Sc. Economics and Management science, 2010

Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University

Diploma in Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, 2007

Publications

Breaking bad: Malfunctioning institutions erode good behavior

(with Agne Kajackaite)

Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming

Aversion to hiring algorithms: Transparency, gender profiling, and self-confidence

(with Marie-Pierre Dargnies and Dorothea Kübler)

Management Science, forthcoming

Pick -an-object mechanisms

(with Inacio Bo)

Management Science, 70(7), 4693-4721, 2024

Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan

(with Maja Adena and Steffen Huck)

Management Science, 70(1), 633-646, 2024

Costly information acquisition in centralized matching markets

(with Dorothea Kübler, and Siqi Pan)

Quantitative Economics, 14 (4), 1447-1490, 2023

The iterative deferred acceptance mechanism

(with Inacio Bo) 

Games and Economic Behavior, 135, 411-435, 2022

How to avoid black markets for appointments with online booking systems

(with C-Philipp Heller, Dorothea Kübler, and Morimitsu Kurino)

American Economic Review, 111.7, 2127-51, 2021

Parallel markets in school choice

(with Mustafa Oguz Afacan, Piotr Evdokimov, and Bertan Turhan)

Games and Economic Behavior, 133, 181-201, 2022

Experiments on centralized school choice and  college admissions: A survey

(with Dorothea Kübler)

Experimental Economics, 24(2), 434-488, 2021

Iterative versus standard deferred acceptance: Experimental evidence

(with Inacio Bo)

The Economic Journal, 130(626), 356-392, 2020

Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets

(with Marie-Pierre Dargnies and Dorothea Kübler)

Management Science, 65(12), 5603-5618, 2019

Equitable top trading cycles mechanism for school choice

(with Onur Kesten)

International Economic Review, 59.4, 2219-2258, 2018

College admissions with entrance exams: Centralized versus decentralized

(with Isa Hafalir, Morimitsu Kurino, and Dorothea Kübler)

Journal of Economic Theory, 176, 886-934, 2018

The effectiveness of top-down advice in strategy-proof mechanisms: A field experiment

(with Pablo Guillen)

European Economic Review, 101, 50-511, 2018

Not quite the best response: Truth-telling, strategy-proof matching, and the manipulation of others

(with Pablo Guillen)

Experimental Economics, 20(3), 670-686, 2017

The willingness to pay-willingness to accept gap: A failed replication of Plott and Zeiler

(with Dietmar Fehr and Dorothea Kübler)

European Economic Review, 78, 202-214, 2015

Common components of risk and uncertainty attitudes across contexts and domains: Evidence from 30 countries

(with Ferdinand M. Vieider, Mathieu Lefebvre, Ranoua Bouchouicha, Thorsten Chmura, Michal Krawczyk, Peter Martinsson)

The Journal of European Economic Association, 13(3), 421-452, 2015

Working papers

Improving transparency in school admissions: Theory and experiment

(with Madhav Raghavan)

R&R Management Science

Strategic Responses to Personalized Pricing and Demand for Privacy: An Experiment

(with Inacio Bo and Li Chen)

R&R Games and Economic Behavior

Teaching

Advanced Topics in Industrial Organization, University of Lausanne, Spring 2023, 2024 (Master)

Market Design, University of Lausanne, Spring 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 (Bachelor)

Experimental methods, University of Lausanne, Fall 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, Spring 2023, 2024 (Master)

Research seminar in behavioral and experimental economics, Technical University Berlin, Summer 2016 (Master)

Behavioral and experimental economics, Technical University Berlin, Summer 2016 (Master)

Introduction to econometrics, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Spring 2008, Fall 2007 (Bachelor)

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