Alumni Profiles

Jakub Steiner is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, and a 2011 recipient of the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which will allow him to return to CERGE-EI as tenured faculty member in 2012. After completing his PhD at CERGE-EI in 2006, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh until 2009. His research interests, which lie within game theory and economic theory, are focused on studying behavior in strategic situations with a possibility of self-fulfilling prophecies, such as those arising during currency attacks, bank runs, revolutions, etc. Before his postgraduate studies, Jakub worked as a social worker for a Roma community and since then has been interested in the economics of discrimination.

He has two published articles in Games & Economic Behavior,  plus articles in the Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Economics Bulletin. An article on “Communications, Timing and Common Learning” (with Colin Stewart) is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Theory, and his paper on “Who Matters in Coordination Problems?” (with József Sákovics) is under revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.