JAKUB KASTL

Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

Phone (office): 650-725-3995

E-mail: jkastl@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~jkastl

PERSONAL INFORMATION
            Age: 30
            Married to Michaela Kastlova
            Citizenship: Czech Republic, U.S. permanent resident

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
            Primary:            Industrial Organization
            Secondary:        Applied Econometrics, Game Theory, Economics of Information

EDUCATION
            Ph.D. in Economics, Northwestern University, 2006
                        Dissertation: Essays in Auctions and Vertical Contracting
                        Primary Advisor: Prof. Michael Whinston
            M.A. in Economics, Northwestern University, 2003
            B.A. in International Business, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Rep., 2001
            B.A. in Economics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2000

EMPLOYMENT
            Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2007-

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
            Cowles Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, 2006-07
            Review of Economic Studies European Tour 2006
            Center for the Study of Industrial Organization Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06
           Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2004-05
            Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant, 2004, 2005
            Northwestern University Fellowship, 2001-02
 

GRANTS
           National Science Foundation Grant: SES-0752860, 2008-2011 (Award amount: $217,199)

WORKING PAPERS
“Discrete Bids and Empirical Inference in Divisible Good Auctions,” 2005
 “Anticompetitive Vertical Delegation,” (coauthored with S. Piccolo) - circulated previously as “Vertical Hierarchy as a Collusive Device,” 2005  
“On the Properties of Equilibria in Private Value Divisible Good Auctions with Constrained Bidding,”  2008
“Wily Welfare Capitalists: Werner von Siemens and the Pension Fund,” (with Lyndon Moore), 2007
“Delegation and R&D Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Italy,” (with David Martimort and Salvatore Piccolo), 2008
“Testing for Common Values in Canadian Treasury Bill Markets,” (with Ali Hortacsu), 2008

WORK IN PROGRESS
“Self-Advertising in Media: Empirical Evidence from Hungarian Female Magazines,” (with Jozsef Molnar), 2007
 “Effect of the Subprime Market Crisis on the Primary Market for Liquidity," with Nuno Cassola and Ali Hortacsu, 2008

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Econometric Society, American Economic Association
 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Referee for American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Review of Finance

PRESENTATIONS
Seminars:
2005/06: Arizona State University, Columbia University (Econ and GSB), Northwestern University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, University College London, University of California - Berkeley (Econ and Haas), University of California - San Diego, University of Essex, University of Oslo, University of Pennsylvania (Econ), Yale University (SOM)

2006/07: MIT, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Wisconsin at Madison, Yale University (Econ)

2007/08: Harvard University, Minneapolis Fed, CERGE, UC Davis

Conferences:
ES Summer Meetings, Evanston, 2003
International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago, 2004
EEA-ESEM Summer Meetings, Madrid, 2004
Summer School on Game Theory, Bolzano, 2005
Econometrics of Auctions, Toulouse, 2006
MTS Conference on Financial Markets, Istanbul, 2006
SED, Prague, 2007
UMinn Applied Micro, Minneapolis, 2007
AEA, New Orleans, 2008
Penn State Conference on Auctions, State College, 2008
SED, Boston, 2008