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Attila Ambrus
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Associate Professor
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Economics
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220B Social Sciences Building
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Phone: (919) 660-1835
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Curriculum Vitae
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Bio
Attila Ambrus joined the Duke faculty in the fall of 2011. He is a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Ambrus received both his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Princeton in 2003 and a M.A. and B.A. from Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1994. He spent the first eight years of his teaching career at Harvard University.
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Specialties
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Economic Theory
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Game Theory
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Industrial Organization
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Development Economics
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Economic History
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Working Papers
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- A. Ambrus, E. Calvano, M. Reisinger.
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- Either or both competition: A "two-sided" theory of advertising with overlapping viewerships.
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- A. Ambrus, G. Egorov.
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- Commitment-flexibility trade-off and withdrawal penalties.
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- A. Ambrus, G. Egorov.
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- Delegation and nonmonetary incentives.
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- A. Ambrus, S. En Lu.
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- Robust almost fully revealing equilibria in multi-sender cheap talk.
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- A. Ambrus, K. Rozen.
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- Rationalizing choice with multi-self models, NEW version.
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- A. Ambrus, J. Burns, Y. Ishii.
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- Gradual bidding in ebay-like auctions.
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- A. Ambrus, L. Sandor, H. You.
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- Testing an informational theory of legislation: Evidence from the U.S. Hosue of Representatives.
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- A. Ambrus, L. Sandor, H. You.
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- Supplementary Appendix to Testing an informational theory of legislation: Evidence from the U.S. Hosue of Representatives.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Azevedo, Y. Kamada, Y. Takagi.
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- Legislative committees as information intermediaries: a unified theory of committee selection and amendment rules.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Azevedo, Y. Kamada, Y. Takagi.
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- Supplementary Note to Legislative committees as information intermediaries: a unified theory of committee selection and amendment rules.
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- A. Ambrus, G. Egorov.
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- Supplementary Appendix to Commitment-flexibility trade-off and withdrawal penalties.
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- A. Ambrus, Y. Ishii.
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- Asynchronous choice in battle of the sexes games: Unique equilibrium selection for intermediate levels of patience.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Chaney, I. Salitskiy.
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- Pirates of the Mediterranean: An empirical investigation of bargaining with transaction costs.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Chaney, I. Salitskiy.
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- Supplementary Appendix to Pirates of the Mediterranean: An empirical investigation of bargaining with transaction costs.
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- A. Ambrus, S. En Lu.
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- A continuous-time model of multilateral bargaining.
- revision requested by AEJ: Microeconomics
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- A. Ambrus.
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- Dynamic Coalitional Agreements - coalitional rationalizability in multi-stage games.
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Research Description
Professor Ambrus’ research focuses on a wide range of subjects including game theory, experimental economics, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, political economics, development economics and economic history. He has received various grants from the National Science Foundation. His most recent work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Theory, and The American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
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Selected Publications
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- A. Ambrus.
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- Coalitional rationalizability.
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
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- A. Ambrus, S. Takahashi.
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- Multi-sender cheap talk with restricted state spaces.
- Theoretical Economics
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- A. Ambrus.
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- Theories of coalitional rationality.
- Journal of Economic Theory
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- A. Ambrus, R. Argenziano.
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- Asymmetric networks in two-sided markets.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Field.
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- Early marriage, age of menarche and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh.
- Journal of Political Economy
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- A. Ambrus, J. Weinstein.
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- Price dispersion and loss leaders.
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- A. Ambrus, E. Field, M. Torrero.
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- Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh.
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
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- A. Ambrus, P. Pathak.
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- Cooperation over finite horizons: a theory and experiments.
- Journal of Public Economics
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- A. Ambrus, B. Greiner.
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- Imperfect public monitoring with costly punishment - An experimental study.
- American Economic Review
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- A. Ambrus, E. Azevedo, Y. Kamada.
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- Hierarchical cheap talk.
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- A. Ambrus, M. Mobius, A. Szeidl.
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- Consumption risk-sharing in social networks (including the supplementary appendix).
- American Economic Review
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- A. Ambrus, G. Egorov.
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- A comment on commitment and flexibility.
- Econometrica
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