Teemu

Pekkarinen

Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics


Teemu Pekkarinen

I am a postdoctoral researcher in microeconomic theory. My research interests are in information economics and game theory. I work on questions related to auctions and mechanism design.

Currently, I am continuing my research at the MIT Department of Economics. From Fall 2024 onwards, I will be part of the Bonn Economic Theory Group.

Contact

Email: teemupek@mit.edu & pekkariselle@gmail.com

Tel.: +1(203) 285-7465

Office: E52-508 

Postal Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

Department of Economics

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building E52-300

Cambridge, MA 02139

Publications

'Equilibrium Pricing under Concave Advertising Costs', The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2022. (With Klaus Kultti) 

'Equilibrium Price and Advertisement Distributions', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 97: 102535, 2021. (With Klaus Kultti)

Working Papers

'Optimal Auction Design with Royalty Payments', 2023. (With Ian Ball)

'On Bilateral Trade with Interdependent Values', SSRN: 3950363, 2023.

'Optimal Regulation with Costly Verification', SSRN: 3729347, 2022. (With Petteri Palonen) 

'Mechanism Design with Auditing and Avoidance: Tax Evasion Story', SSRN: 4230382, 2022. (With Petteri Palonen)

'Why Are Branded Goods So Expensive?', SSRN: 4317792, 2023. (With Klaus Kultti)

'Free Riding in Status Competition', SSRN: 4648688, 2023. (With Klaus Kultti)

'When Aiyagari meets Piketty: Growth, Inequality and Factor Income Shares', SSRN: 3782991, 2022. (With Toni Juuti, Kari Heimonen, and Juha-Pekka Junttila)

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Email: teemupek@mit.edu or pekkariselle@gmail.com