Mohammad Akbarpour Assistant Professor of Economics Graduate School of Business Stanford University Address: 655 Knight way, E251, Stanford, CA Email: mohamwad@stanford.edu Assistant: Odette Aranzamendez (email: odetteaz@stanford.edu)

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My research is focused on marketplace design, social/economic networks, and the economics of organ transplantation. I teach an MBA class on the economic aspects of online marketplaces, and a PhD class on market design. Here is my C.V.

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Papers

1. Credible Mechanism Design, [SSRN]
   with Shengwu Li.
   
   

2. Thickness and Information in Dynamic Matching Markets, [SSRN]
   with Shengwu Li and Shayan Oveis Gharan.
   A quick way to learn this paper is to watch the short videos:
   Model (8mins)
   Matching and Objective (6mins)
   Designing algorithms (7mins)
   Main theorems (5mins)
   Proof ideas I (12mins)
   Proof ideas II (6mins)
   Value of information (9mins)
   
   

3. Approximate Random Allocation Mechanisms, [SSRN]
   with Afshin Nikzad.
   
   

4. Diffusion in Networks and the Unexpected Virtue of Burstiness, [SSRN]
   with Matthew Jackson.
   Video of presentation at EC’17
   
   

5. Information Aggregation in Overlapping Generations, [SSRN]
   with Amin Saberi and Ali Shameli.
   
   

6. A New Interpretation of Dictatorship with Application in Social Choice Theory, [SSRN]
   with Sam Nariman.
   
   

7. High Probability Guarantees in Repeated Games: Theory and Applications in Information Theory, [arXiv]
   with Payam Delgosha and Amin Gohari.
   Published in Proceedings of the IEEE 105.2 (2017): 189-204.