Nathan Larson Associate Professor Economics
- Additional Positions at AU
- Director, Economics PhD Program
- Degrees
- BS Duke University, PhD MIT
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Summer 2024
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ECON-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Fall 2024
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ECON-345 Introduction to Game Theory
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ECON-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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ECON-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Spring 2025
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ECON-813 Microeconomic Analysis II
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ECON-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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ECON-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Recent Publications
Ìý(with Sheetal Sekhri), Water Resources and Economics, 2016, Vol. 14, 44-64.
,ÌýB.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics,Ìý2015, 16(1), 83-117.
, Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, Vol. 159, 596-626. (Previously circulated as In with the New or Out with the Old: Bottlenecks in Social Learning)
, with Alicia Baik and Simon Anderson, Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, Vol. 92, 53-73.
(with Wedad Elmaghraby), Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 76(1), 131-159.
, Economic Theory, 2011, September, 1-40.
, with Marco Angrisani, Antonio Guarino, and Steffen Huck, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances), 2011, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Article 9.
, Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, vol. 65(2), pp 430-460.
, Journal of Economic Theory, 117 (2004).
Papers Under Revision
Clustering on the Same News Source in an Asset Market (previously circulated as On the Concentration of Information in Equilibrium), revision requested at the Journal of Financial Markets
Working Papers
Price Discrimination in the Information Age: List Prices, Poaching, and Retention with Personalized Targeted Discounts (with Alicia Baik and Simon Anderson), submitted to the Review of Economic Studies
Word-of-Mouth Recommendations and Discounts in Consumer Search
Network Security
Dynamic Viral Marketing on a Social Network
The Effect of Mergers, Divestitures, and Board Composition on CEO Compensation Before and After the Financial Crisis (with Ralph Sonenshine and Mike Cauvel)