Dr Andrew Ferdowsian
Lecturer in Economics
A.B.Ferdowsian@exeter.ac.uk
Streatham Court SC 0.48
Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
Overview
Andrew Ferdowsian joined the University of Exeter in 2023, after completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University.
His research focuses on improving market places, such as the market place for public housing in Singapore and the labor market for medical residents.
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Princeton University)
- Goldfeld Fellowship, 2022
- Dietrich Economic Theory Center Grants, 2018 – 2022
- Harvard's Distinction in Teaching Award, 2016
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Research
Research interests
- Game Theory
- Market Design
- Social Norms
Andrew’s research is motivated by problems in applied market design and employs techniques from operations research and industrial organization. In practice, market designers often assume agents have complete information about their environment. His work shows that the presence of incomplete information drastically changes the outcomes of real-world algorithms. For instance, current research often focuses on stable matchings, with an implicit assumption that decentralized market interactions will push unstable matchings towards stable matchings. He examines how incomplete information faced by agents can lead to outcomes that are unstable in the classical sense. How do these agents’ incentives to learn interact with competition
in matching markets? He shows that when agents learn about their preferences through matching and must compete over those matches, standard policy interventions such as improved access to information and increases to unemployment benefits can exacerbate competitive forces, leading to unintended consequences, increasing inefficient competition at desirable firms.
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