I am a Senior Lecturer in the Australian National University.
CV
Research
Infection arbitrage.
Mathematica code. Short popular science video. SEIR model spreadsheet.Costlier switching strengthens competition even without advertising.
Greater search cost reduces prices.
Online appendix. Older version in which firms have asymmetric costs and valuation distributions. Slides.Herding driven by the desire to differ.
Slides.Price competition with uncertain quality and cost.
Investing in trading opportunities in dynamic adverse selection.
Signalling with breakthroughs.
Corrigendum to "Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective".
Promotion of (interaction) abstinence increases infection prevalence.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming 2021.Investing to access an adverse selection market.
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020. Mathematica code.Older version in which the seller observes the prices before entry.
Older version that allows a small positive costless entry probability.
Reversals of signal-posterior monotonicity imply a bias of screening.
Journal of Economic Theory, 2020. Mathematica code.Competitive pricing despite search costs when lower price signals quality.
Economic Theory, 2020. Online Appendix. Slides.Older version with a minimal monetary unit. Online Appendix. Slides.
Dynamic noisy signalling.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018. Online appendix. Slides.Good signals gone bad: dynamic signalling with switched effort levels.
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2017.Universal type structures with unawareness.
Games and Economic Behavior, 2014. Working paper version.
Equivalence of the information structure with unawareness to the logic of awareness.
Journal of Economic Theory, 2012. Working paper version.
Unofficial research
Effects of foods on gastrointestinal symptoms. A web app that analyses the effects of inputs on outputs in the data in a CSV file uploaded by the user. Source code in GitHub.Organising
Australasian Economic Theory Workshop 2018
Economic Theory seminars 2017-2018
Teaching
Australian National University
Game theory (econ3152/4453/8053, undergraduate, Honours and Masters course) 2020. Lecture recordings.
Optimisation for economics and finance (econ8013, Masters course) 2020. Lecture recordings.
Game theory (econ3152/3153/4453/8053, undergraduate, Honours and Masters course) 2019
Topics in game theory (econ4476/8076, Honours and Masters course) 2018
University of Queensland
Mathematical techniques for economics (econ7150, Masters course) 2015
Microeconomics A (econ6010/8010, Honours and PhD course) 2015
Guest lectures
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Game theory with unawareness IAP 2020
University of Tartu: Introduction to game theory (mathematics undergraduate 1st year course) 2019
Contact
E-mail: sander.heinsalu [at] anu.edu.au
Address:
Research School of Economics
Australian National University
HW Arndt Building 25a Kingsley St
Acton ACT 2601
Australia
Tel: +61 2 612 55180
Orcid: 0000-0003-4136-6175, arXiv: heinsalu_s_1
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