ANDREI BARBOS

4202 East Fowler Ave CMC 206 This version: August 2015
Tampa, FL 33620-5500
E-mail: andreibarbos@gmail.com
Phone: 813-974-6514
Fax: 813-974-6510
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/andreibarbos/

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 2015-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 2009-2015

EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009
B.A.: Mathematical Economics, Academia de Studii Economice, Bucharest, Romania, 2001

PUBLICATIONS
1. “Context Effects: A Representation of Choices from Categories” - Journal of Economic Theory, 2010
2. “De-synchronized Clocks in Preemption Games with Risky Prospects”- Mathematical Social Sciences,
2013
3. “A Reference Dependent Representation with Subjective Tastes” - Journal of Mathematical
Economics, 2013
4. “Project Screening with Tiered Evaluation” - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2013
5. “An Alternative Interpretation of Random Noise in Rank-Order Tournaments” - Economics Letters,
2013
6. “Imperfect Evaluation in Project Screening” - Journal of Economics, 2014
7. “Information Acquisition and Innovation under Competitive Pressure” - Journal of Economics and
Management Strategy, 2015
8. “The Impact of a Public Option in the U.S. Health Insurance Market” (with Yi Deng) - Economic
Inquiry, 2015

WORKING PAPERS
1. “Optimal Contracts with Random Auditing” - under review
2. “Dynamic Contracts with Random Auditing
3. “Random Auditing without Communication
4. “Rivalry in an Investment Decision Game” (with Julian Romero)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Uwe and Soizic Derboven Scholarship (awarded to two
students from each Department in the University), 2001-2002
Academia de Studii Economice, Bucharest, Romania, graduated with the highest GPA in my class of 500
students, 2001
Romanian Government Excellence Scholarship (awarded to one student from each University in
Romania), 2000-2001
Procter & Gamble Scholarship (awarded to 24 students from 8 East European countries), 2000-01
Academia de Studii Economice, Bucharest, Romania, First Prize at the Professional Contest “The Best
Programmer”, 1998
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Main Instructor, University of South Florida, 2009-present
Mathematical Economics I (graduate); Mathematical Economics II (graduate), Microeconomics
II (graduate), Game Theory (undergraduate)

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
Boris Nikolaev, Berna Colak, Natallia Gray, Stacey Gelsheimer, Felipe Feijoo Palacios (Engineering),
Youssef Fassi Fehri (co-chair), Nicole Schoenecker, Brian Hornung, Alireza Ghalebani (Engineering),
John Hartman (chair)

PRESENTATIONS
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy (2015)
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Cambridge, UK (2015)
Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Columbus, OH (2015)
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
University of Alabama (2013)
International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY (2013)
Conference on Economic Design, Lund, Sweden (2013)
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (2013)
Florida International University (2013)
University of South Florida (2012)
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Brisbane, Australia (2012)
Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Nashville, TN (2011)
International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, MA (2011)
Florida State University (2011)
Econometric Society World Congress, Shanghai, China (2010)
International Industrial Organization Conference, Vancouver, Canada (2010)
Midwest Economic Theory Conference, State College, PA (2009)
Rutgers Business School (2009)
University of Waterloo (2009)
University of South Florida (2009)
Maastricht University (2008)
Northwestern University (2007)

OTHER EXPERIENCE
Director of Ph.D. Program, Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 2015-present
Member in the Scientific Committee of the Annual Conference of Romanian Economists, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania, 2015
Organizer of the Departmental Seminar Series, University of South Florida, 2010-2012
Consultant, Behavioral Research Associates, Evanston, IL, 2008-2009

REFEREEING ACTIVITY
Canadian Journal of Economics; Econometrica; Economics Bulletin; International Economic Review;
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Economics;
Mathematical Social Sciences; Review of Economic Design; Review of Economic Studies; Social Choice
and Welfare

CITIZENSHIP
Romania and United States