Michael Ostrovsky

Associate Professor of Economics

Stanford Graduate School of Business
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305

Email: ostrovsky at gsb dot stanford dot edu

Phone: (650) 724-7280

Ph.D. students on the market (2011 - 2012)

Working papers

• Information Aggregation in Dynamic Markets with Strategic Traders, October 2011, Revised and resubmitted, Econometrica.
  • Online Appendix.
• Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks (with John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, and Alexander Westkamp), January 2011, Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
  • Online Appendix.
• Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment (with Michael Schwarz), December 2009.

Publications

• Heterogeneity and Peer Effects in Mutual Fund Proxy Voting (with Gregor Matvos), Journal of Financial Economics, v. 98(1), October 2010, pp. 90-112.
• Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets (with Michael Schwarz), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, v. 2(2), May 2010, pp. 34-63.
• Two-Sided Matching with Interdependent Values (with Archishman Chakraborty and Alessandro Citanna), Journal of Economic Theory, v. 145(1), January 2010, pp. 85-105.
• Cross-Ownership, Returns, and Voting in Mergers (with Gregor Matvos), Journal of Financial Economics, v. 89(3), September 2008, pp. 391-403.
• Stability in Supply Chain Networks, American Economic Review, v. 98(3), June 2008, pp. 897-923.
  • Intermediate steps for Appendix B.
• Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games, with Entry/Exit Examples (Ariel Pakes, Michael Ostrovsky, and Steve Berry), RAND Journal of Economics, v. 38(2), Summer 2007, pp. 373-399.
  • Additional simulation results summarized but not reported in detail in the published article are available in the June 2005 working paper.
  • Matlab code.
• Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords (with Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz), American Economic Review, v. 97(1), March 2007, pp. 242-259.
• Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions (with Benjamin Edelman), Decision Support Systems, v. 43(1), February 2007, pp. 192-198.
• Synchronization under Uncertainty (with Michael Schwarz), International Journal of Economic Theory, v. 2(1), March 2006, pp. 1-16.
• Adoption of Standards under Uncertainty (with Michael Schwarz), RAND Journal of Economics, v. 36(4), Winter 2005, pp. 817-833.
  • Online Appendix.

Book Review

• Review of "Combinatorial Auctions" by Cramton, Shoham, and Steinberg (eds), Journal of Economic Literature, v. 45(1), March 2007, pp. 183-185.

Teaching

• Mgtecon 615 - Topics in Market Design (PhD).
  • Reading lists: Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011.
• Mgtecon 200/203 - Managerial Economics (MBA).