ROMANS PANCS

romanspancs.co
rpancs@gmail.co

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professo
ITAM, August 2019 to present
Assistant Professo
ITAM, August 2015–July 201
Assistant Professo
Department of Economics, University of Rochester, August 2008–July 201

VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Schola
Department of Economics, UCLA, January 2013–August 2013
Visiting University Lecture
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, January 2010–July 201

EDUCATIO
Ph.D. in Economics (adviser: Ilya Segal), Stanford University, 2003–200
M.Sc. in Economics (with Distinction), LSE, 2002–200
B.A. in Economics, University of Latvia, 1998–200
Visiting Student, Queen Mary, University of London, Spring 200

BOO
Lectures on Microeconomics: The Big Questions Approach, 2018, MIT Press.

PUBLICATIONS
“A Review of Robert Sugden's  Community of Advantage”, forthcoming in the Journal of
Economic Literature (with Patrick Harless
“Mean Reversion in Investment Decisions: The Case of Hollywood,” Journal of Industrial
Economics, 2020, Vol. 68, Issue 1, 156-190 (with Ryan Lampe)
“Dynamic Project Selection,” Theoretical Economics, 2018, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 115–144 (with
Arina Nikandrova)
“Conjugate Information Disclosure in an Auction with Learning,” Journal of Economic
Theory, 2017, Vol. 171, 174–212 (with Arina Nikandrova)

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 “Tight and Loose Coupling in Organizations,” The  B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
(Research Articles), 2016, DOI: 10.1515/bejte-2015-0081
“Ef cient Dark Markets,” Economic Theory, 2015, Vol. 59, Issue 3, 605–624.
“The Negative Value of Public Information in the Glosten-Milgrom Model,” Economics
Letters, 2014, Vol. 124, Issue 2, 207–210
“Designing Order-Book Transparency in Electronic Communication Networks,”  Journal
of the European Economic Association, 2014, Vol. 12, Issue 3.
“Workup,” Review of Economic Design, 2013, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 37–71.
“Sequential Negotiations with Costly Information Acquisition,” Games and Economic
Behavior, 2013, Vol. 82, 522–543.
“Communication, Innovation, and Growth,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 10,
Issue 1 (Contributions) (2010), Article 3
“Schelling's Spatial Proximity Model of Segregation Revisited,” Journal of Public
Economics, Vol. 91, Issues 1–2 (2007), pp. 1-24 (with Nicolaas J. Vriend).
“Free Riding on Altruism and Group Size,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 4, Issue
3 (2002) pp. 335–346 (with Jean Hindricks)

WORKING PAPER
“Electoral Maldistricting” (with Andrei Gomberg and Tridib Sharma
“A Social-Status Rationale for Repugnant and Protected Market Transactions” (with
Patrick Harless)

TEACHIN
Doctoral courses
ECO521 Advanced Economic Theory (Rochester: 2011, 2012, 2014
ECO471 Modern Value Theory I (Rochester: 2008–2014
PhD10 Advanced Course in Economic Theory (Cambridge: 2010
Undergraduate courses
Advanced Microeconomics II: (ITAM: 2016–2021
ECO207H Honors Intermediate Microeconomics (Rochester: 2014
ECO274 Market Design (Rochester: 2009, 2011, 2012
2B P4 Economics of Matching (Cambridge: 2010
Master’s Courses
General Equilibrium (ITAM: 2017–2020
Financial Microeconomics I (ITAM: 2015, 2016
Financial Microeconomics II (ITAM: 2016, 2017

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 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIE
Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of
Public Economics, Management Science, Theoretical Economics, Games and Economic Behavior,
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Adaptive Behavior,
Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of
Industrial Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, Review of
Industrial Organization, International Journal of Game Theory, Review of Economic Design,
Operational Research, Social Choice and Welfar
Program Committees: EC’21, EC’20, EC’19, The Lionel McKenzie Memorial Conference
(2011
Reviewing Committee: LACEA-LAMES 201

SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARD

200 Kohlhagen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Stanford
200 Best Ph.D. Candidacy Paper Sean Buckley Prize (Stanford
200 The British Chevening Scholarship

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