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Dr Suren Basov Title: Senior Lecturer Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 406 Tel: +61 3 9479 1330 Email: s.basov@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

Dr Suren Basov

I graduated from the Moscow Institute for Engineering and Physics in 1992 with a diploma in Theoretical Physics and conducted postgraduate studies at the Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", during 1992-1995. I held a Soros Grant for Research in Critical Phenomena in Nuclear Spectra, 1994-1995 and Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" Fellowship, 1992-1995 and published two papers in refereed physics journals. I entered the New Economic School in 1994 and graduated with an MA in Economics in 1996. In 1996 I entered Boston University and earned my Ph.D in Economics in 2001.

Employment History

• Senior Lecturer (with tenure), La Trobe University, since January 2008
• Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University, December 2006-January 2008
• Lecturer, Melbourne University, 2002-2006
• Visitor to Economic Theory Centre, Melbourne University, June-December 2001
• Instructor, Principles of Microeconomics (for undergraduate students), Boston University, Fall 2000
• Instructor, Economics of Eastern Europe (for undergraduate students), Boston University, Fall 2000
• Visiting Professor, Labour Economics (for graduate students), New Economic School, Moscow, Russia, Spring 1999

Publications

During my professional career, I have published two books, eight papers in refereed economics journals, including such high ranking journals as Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Contributions to Theoretical Economics and The Manchester School; two papers in top refereed physics journals and two chapters in edited volumes. I also presented my research in numerous domestic and international conferences.

Teaching

At La Trobe I teach three third year undergraduate courses: Decision Analysis with Spreadsheets (ECO3DAS), Organisations, Economics and Incentives (EC03/4OEI) and Computational Finance (FIN3CLF).

Research Interests

My main research interests are in areas of bounded rationality and mechanism design and I am currently the Chief Investigator for ARC Discovery grant DP0881381 "Mechanism design under bounded rationality: The optimal contracts in the complex world", (with Ishaq Bhatti) 2008-2010.

Recent Publications

• Snobs and Quality Gaps, 2006, Contributions to Theoretical Economics: Vol.6(1), pp 1-18.
• Competition, Market Niche, and the Option to Wait, 2006, forthcoming in to The Manchester School (with Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait).
• Auctions with Opportunistic Experts (with Svetlana Danilkina), Topics in Theoretical Economics: 7(1), pp. 1-11

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