PhD Candidate, Department of Economics


 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Department of Economics

Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 872-203-3319

tomerys@u.northwestern.edu

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 2025 (expected)

MA, Economics, Northwestern University, 2020

MA, Economics, Tel-Aviv University, 2019. Summa Cum Laude

BA, Economics, The Open University of Israel, 2018. Summa Cum Laude

Fields of Specialization

Microeconomic Theory

Curriculum Vitae

TBA

Working Papers

Coming Soon: Robust Contracting in a Dynamic Settings

Experimentation with Voluntary Disclosure (joint with Maren Vairo and Udayan Vaidya) [Slides]

Communication with Costly Information Acquisition [Slides]

Optimal Delegation with Learning Agent (with Maren Vairo)

Bitcoin: A Mechanism Design Approach

The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Education Attainment in 20th Century Spain [Paper]

Teaching

Graduate Microeconomic Theory, ECON 410-3, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Northwestern University. (Professor Wojciech Olszewski 2022, Professor Alessandro Pavan 2023)

Graduate Microeconomic Theory, ECON 410-2, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024. Northwestern University. (Professor Marciano Siniscalchi)

Foundations of Mathematical Social Science, MMSS-300, Fall 2021 Northwestern University. (Professor Eddie Dekel)

Intermediate Microeconomics, ECON 310-2, Northwestern University.

Graduate Microeconomic Theory, Tel-Aviv University.

Experience

Research Assistant – Professor Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern University.

Research Assistant – Professor Harry Pei, Northwestern University.

Research Assistant – Professor Zvika Neeman, Tel-Aviv University.

Awards and Fellowships 

Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, Northwestern University. 2020-2021, 2021-2022.

Tel Aviv University Excellence Scholarship for Academic Achievements. 2018-2019

Open University of Israel President’s List. 2014-2018.

References

Professor Marciano Siniscalchi (Committee Chair)

Professor Alessandro Pavan (Committee Co-Chair)

Professor Yingni Guo (Committee Member)

Professor Piotr Dworczak (Committee Member)