Jeff Ely Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Evolution

Jeff Ely

Economic Theorist

Professor of Economics

Economics Researcher

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Statistical Techniques

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Mathematics Analysis

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About Jeffrey Ely

Jeff Ely is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and an accomplished latte-artist. He is the director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences at Northwestern, a member of several editorial boards and co-author of the blog Cheap Talk.

Research

Feedback Design in Dynamic Moral Hazard Joint with George Georgiadis and Luis Rayo

We study the joint design of dynamic incentives and performance feedback for an environment with a coarse (all-or-nothing) measure of

Ruth, Anthony, and Clarence

Non-partisan voters can become polarized not because of ideology but because it is optimal for them to remain uninformed and cancel out the votes of uninformed voters on “the other side.”

Sequential Information Design Joint with Laura Doval

We study games of incomplete information as both the information structure and the extensive form vary. An analyst may know the payoff-

Moving the Goalposts Joint with Martin Szydlowski

We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard frame- work. An agent works on a task of uncertain difficulty, modeled

Beeps

I introduce and study dynamic persuasion mechanisms. A principal privately observes the evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to an agent.

Critical Types Joint with Marcin Peski

How can we know in advance whether simplifying assumptions about beliefs will make a difference in the conclusions of

Teaching

Intermediate Micro Course

I teach undergraduate intermediate microeconomics, a 10 week course that is the second in a two-part seqeunce at Northwestern University. I have developed a unique approach to intermediate micro based originally on a course designed by my former colleague Kim-Sau Chung.

Signal & Noise

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Videos

Invited Lecture by
Professor Jeffrey Ely on "Moving the Goalposts"

2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society UCI Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science