Alumni Profiles

Dmitry Ryvkin is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He entered the PhD program at CERGE-EI in 2000, after having completed his BS and MS degrees in Physics at Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He defended his thesis at CERGE-EI in 2006, titled “Essays on Tournament Design”. In that same year, he also defended another PhD dissertation in Physics at Michigan State University. He took the position at Florida State University which he still holds that same year.

His primary research interests focus on the areas of microeconomic theory, experimental economics and economic psychology. Some of his recent publications include "How corruptible are you? Bribery under uncertainty" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, "The optimal sorting players in contest between groups" in Games and Economic Behavior and "The selection efficiency of tournaments" in the European Journal of Operational Research.