Overview
Giuseppe (Pino) Lopomo is the Alan D. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Business Administrations at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He also has a courtesy appointment at the Economics Department of Duke University.
He has a Laurea Magna cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Before joining the faculty at Duke, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business of New York University, and visited the Economics department of the University of Michigan for one year.
Currently, Professor Lopomo teaches Managerial Economics and Competitive Analysis to MBA students. He has taught courses on similar topics to undergraduate and PhD students.
Professor Lopomo's research focuses on applied game theory, auction and mechanism design. His work has been published in leading journals of economics including The Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, The Rand Journal of Economics and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
He has a Laurea Magna cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Before joining the faculty at Duke, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business of New York University, and visited the Economics department of the University of Michigan for one year.
Currently, Professor Lopomo teaches Managerial Economics and Competitive Analysis to MBA students. He has taught courses on similar topics to undergraduate and PhD students.
Professor Lopomo's research focuses on applied game theory, auction and mechanism design. His work has been published in leading journals of economics including The Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, The Rand Journal of Economics and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Alan D. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
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2021 - Present
Fuqua School of Business
Professor of Business Administration
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2011 - Present
Fuqua School of Business
Professor of Economics
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2011 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Optimal Procurement with Quality Concerns
Journal Article American Economic Review · June 1, 2023 Adverse selection in procurement arises when low-cost bidders are also low-quality suppliers. We propose a mechanism called LoLA (lowball lottery auction) which, under some conditions, maximizes any combination of buyer’s and social surplus, subject to inc ... Full text CiteDetectability, duality, and surplus extraction
Journal Article Journal of Economic Theory · September 1, 2022 We study surplus extraction in the general environment of McAfee and Reny (1992), and provide two alternative proofs of their main theorem. The first is an analogue of the classic argument of Crémer and McLean (1985, 1988), using geometric features of the ... Full text CiteUncertainty and robustness of surplus extraction
Journal Article Journal of Economic Theory · January 1, 2022 This paper studies a robust version of the classic surplus extraction problem, in which the designer knows only that the beliefs of each type belong to some set, and designs mechanisms that are suitable for all possible beliefs in that set. We derive neces ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Applied Mechanism Design
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2011View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
1994
Ph.D.
Bocconi University (Italy) ·
1988
B.S.