Economic theory · Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
Ali Shourideh

Ali Shourideh

I am an economic theorist. My research is on mechanism design and its applications in taxation, market regulation, and communication.

Associate Professor of Economics

shourideh [at] gmail [dot] com
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Research

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New papers
with Majid Mahzoon and Ariel Zetlin-Jones
September 2026
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with Maryam Saeedi
New Draft: August 2026
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with Maryam Farboodi and Nima Haghpanah
Reject & Resubmit at AER · November 2025
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with James Best, Dan Quigley and Maryam Saeedi
R&R at Review of Economic Studies · May 2026
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with Maryam Saeedi and Yikang Shen
February 2025
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with Alexey Kushnir
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with Hugo Hopenhayn and Maryam Saeedi
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Publications
with Ben Lester, Venky Venkateswaran, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Journal of Economic Theory · September 2023
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with Mostafa Beshkar
Journal of Monetary Economics · January 2020
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with Roozbeh Hosseini
Econometrica · July 2019
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with Ben Lester, Venky Venkateswaran, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Journal of Political Economy · February 2019
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with Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Journal of Monetary Economics · December 2017
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with V. V. Chari and Ariel Zetlin-Jones
American Economic Review · December 2014
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with Roozbeh Hosseini and Larry E. Jones
Journal of Economic Theory · September 2013
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with Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin and Aleh Tsyvinski
American Economic Review P&P · May 2013
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Working papers
with Roozbeh Hosseini
February 2022
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with Alessandro Dovis and Mikhail Golosov
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with V. V. Chari and Ariel Zetlin-Jones
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with Nick Hoffman
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with Maxim Troshkin
July 2017
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PhD Students

Current students
Aditya Kiran
Microeconomics, Market Design · Stability and Information in Matching Markets
Iris Chung
Microeconomics · Content Provision with Digital Addiction
Aranya Pal
Microeconomics · Community Formation in Repeated Games
Heyang Zhang
Banking and Macroeconomics · Contagion in Banking Networks
Amirhossein Vaziri
Microeconomics, Political Economy · Reputation, Cheap Talk and Persuasion
Parand Akbari
Macro · Differential Impact of AI on Workers: A Multi-Factor Approach
Hoang Anh Nguyen
Applied Economics · Saving Policies with Persistent Shocks (co-advised with Liyan Shi)
Minhyuk Nam
Environmental, Microeconomics · A Delegation Approach to Environmental Treaties
Arnav Sood
Microeconomics · Frequentist Persuasion
Yikang Shen
Microeconomics, Media Economics · Getting the Agent to Wait (with Maryam Saeedi)
Shuoqi Sun
Microeconomics, Information Economics · Essays on Consumer Information in Online Markets
Recent graduates
Martin Michelini
Public Finance, Applied Economics · Matching and Optimal Taxation · 2025 · now at CMU
Nick Hoffman
Macroeconomics, Public Economics · Wealth, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Policy · 2025 · now at Joint Committee on Taxation
Majid Mahzoon
Microeconomics, Organizational Economics · Hierarchical Bayesian Persuasion · 2023 · now at University of Central Florida
Andre Mouton
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics · Firm-Bias, Skill-Bias, and Wage Inequality · 2022 · now at Wake Forest University
Xuege Zhang
Macroeconomics, Trade, Urban · External Economies of Scale and Place-Based Industrial Policies · 2022 · now at IMF
Hakki Ozdenoren
Macroeconomics, Labor · Technological Advancements and Labor Reallocation · 2020 · now at Revelio Labs
Wenting Yu
Macroeconomics, Trade · A Tale of Many Cities: Industrial Networks and Urban Productivity · 2019 · now at Amazon
Daniel Wills
Macroeconomics, Public Finance · Taxing Firms Facing Financial Frictions · 2017 · now at Asofondos de Colombia

Coauthors

Teaching

PhD classes
  • Mechanism Designsyllabus soon
  • Microeconomics 3syllabus soon
  • Macroeconomics 1syllabus soon
  • Macroeconomics 2syllabus soon
  • Macroeconomics 3syllabus soon
  • Public Economicssyllabus soon
MBA & undergraduate classes
  • Fundamentals of Businesssyllabus soon
  • Strategies in Information Marketssyllabus soon
  • Statistical Decision Makingsyllabus soon
  • Intermediate Macroeconomicssyllabus soon

Resources