Vitor Farinha Luz
Associate Professor
email
vitor.farinhaluz@ubc.ca
phone
604 822 6217
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Iona Building 213
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About
My main research interests are Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design and Public Finance.
Teaching
Research
Published papers:
- Risk Classification in Insurance Markets with Risk and Preference Heterogeneity (with Piero Gottardi and Humberto Moreira), accepted for publication at theReview of Economic Studies
- “Robust Mechanisms: the Curvature Case” (with H. Moreira, V. Carrasco and P. Monteiro), Economic Theory 68.1 (2019): 203-222
- “Optimal Selling Mechanisms under Moment Conditions” (with H. Moreira, V. Carrasco, P. Monteiro, M. Messner and N. Kos), Journal of Economic Theory 177 (2018): 245-279
- “The Private Memory of Aggregate Uncertainty” (with C. da Costa), Review of Economic Dynamics 27 (2018): 169-183
- “Characterization and uniqueness of equilibrium in competitive insurance”, Theoretical Economics 12.3 (2017): 1349-1391
- “Surplus Extraction with Rich Type Spaces” Journal of Economic Theory, 148 (2013), 2749–2762
Work in progress:
- (NEW) Optimal dynamic insurance contracts, working paper
- Arxiv version
- Older version entitled Dynamic Competitive Insurance
- “Signal design and costly entry” – slides
- “Mixed-strategy equilibria with non-exclusive contracts” (with Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti and Francois Salanié)
- Constrained inefficiency in the Huggett Model (with Nicolas Werquin)