December 28th, 2024

Doron Ravid

Mailing Address Email: dravid@uchicago.edu

University of Chicago Website: http://www.doronravid.com
Kenneth C. Griffin Office: Saieh Hall 433
Department of Economics
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Employment

July 2024 – Present Associate Professor (without tenure),

University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Sep 2024 Visiting Fellow, Cowls Foundation, Yale University

July 2015 – June 2024 Assistant Professor,

University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Sep 2018 – Dec 2018 Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Education
Ph.D. in Economics, June 2015
Princeton University, Princeton NJ

M.A. in Economics, 2011

Princeton University, Princeton NJ

M.A. in Economics, Magma Cum Laude, 2009

Tel Aviv University, Israel

B.A. in Economics and Psychology, 2006

Summa Cum Laude in Economics
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Editorial Service
Aug 2024 – Present Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory.

Published, Forthcoming, and Accepted Papers

 Knowing the Informed Player's Payoffs and Simple Play in Repeated Games (with Takuma Habu and Elliot
Lipnowski), Journal of Economic Theory 221 (2024): 105888.
 Flexible Moral Hazard Problems (with George Georgiadis and Balazs Szentes): Econometrica (2024).
  Persuasion via Weak Institutions (with Elliot Lipnowski and Denis Shishkin): Journal of Political Economy
(2022).
 Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information (with Anne-Katrin Roesler and
Balázs Szentes): Journal of Political Economy (2022).
 Pooled Testing for Quarantine Decisions (with Elliot Lipnowski): Journal of Economic Theory 198 (2021):
105372.
 "Bad Temptation." (with Kai Steverson), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2021): 102480.
 "Ultimatum Bargaining with Rational Inattention.", American Economic Review 110, no. 9 (2020): 2948-
63.
 "Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives." (with Elliot Lipnowski), Econometrica 88, no. 4 (2020): 1631-1660.

Working Papers

 Robust Predictions in Games with Rational Inattention (with Tommaso Denti, abstract published at
Economics and Computation 2024).
 Predicting Choice from Information Costs (with Elliot Lipnowski, abstract published at Economics and
Computation 2023).
 Monopoly, Product Quality, and Flexible Learning (with Jeffrey Mensch, abstract published at Economics
and Computation 2024).
 Perfect Bayesian Persuasion (with Elliot Lipnowski and Denis Shishkin, R&R at JPE: Micro).
 Focus, Then Compare (with Kai Steverson).

Presentations

2024: European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Persuasion and Information Design: Theory and
Applications (Venice), University of Hong Kong Business School, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins University,
Arizona State University, University of Michigan, UCSD Theory Seminar, Emory Theory Seminar, Yale
Theory Lunch, Columbia Conference on Economic Theory, Berkeley Microeconomic Theory Seminar,
Economics and Computation 2024 (presented two papers), Tutorial at Economics and Computation
2024 (Credibility, Strategic Communication, and Information Design), Semi-plenary Lecture at the
Econometric Society’s NASM, Warwick Theory Workshop, QMUL/City workshop in economic theory,
Cowles Summer Conference 2024, Conference in Honor of Faruk Gul, Northwestern-UChicago Economic
Theory Conference, Conference in Honor of Roland Benabou, NAWM of the Econometric Society.

2023: Purdue, University of Rochester, SEA Conference, Cornell, Boston College, CERGE-EI, ETH Zurich and the
University of Zurich, Bocconi, NYU Stern, USC Marshall, Plenary Lecture at Stony Brook International
Conference on Game Theory, SAET Conference, Bounded Rationality in Choice 2023, UCLA.

2022: University of Toronto, SEA Conference, Caltech, Princeton University, BFI Summer Theory Conference,
Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, SAET Conference, Conference in Memory and
Honor of Hugo Sonnenschein, UC Riverside, University College London, The University of Hong
Kong/City University of Hong Kong/Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Online Seminar for

2
 Kyoto University/Osaka University/Academia Sinica/National Taiwan University/Hong Kong Baptist
University/Peking University/Tsinghua University.

2021: Econometric Society European Summer Meetings, Harvard-MIT, Yale, Cornell, Econometric Society
Winter Meetings.

2020: Paris School of Economics ROY seminar, Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory, Boston University,
University of Essex, 4th Bargaining: Experiments, Empirics and Theory Workshop, St. Andrews Seminar
Series on Persuasion, Caltech Theory Seminar, Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Georgetown,
Florida State University.

2019: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Michigan State University, NYU, CRC Junior Workshop on Economic
Theory (@Bonn): Information and Markets, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Ohio State, Columbia Conference on Economic Theory, University of Arizona, Arizona State
University, Stanford, UCSD.

2018: Penn State, University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, Foundations of Risk and Uncertainty
(round table discussion); Barcelona GSE Forum on Bounded Rationality, Cognition and Strategic
Uncertainty, 3rd Glasgow workshop on Mechanism Design and Behavioural Economics, Canadian
Economic Theory Conference, University of Michigan, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv University, London
School of Economics, University of Warwick, University College London.

2017: University of Calgary, European Meetings of the Econometric Society, Society for the Advancement of
Economic Theory conference, 9th annual conference of the Israeli chapter of the Game Theory Society,
Brown University.

2016: University of Toronto, 69th European Meetings of the Econometric Society, The Econometric Society
North American Summer Meetings.

2015: Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, Bocconi
University, Toulouse School of Economics, UCLA, Northwestern University, University of Chicago.

2014: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University.

2012: University of Pittsburgh Decisions: Theory, Experiments and Applications.

Discussions

Northwestern Kellogg Mini-Conference and Schwartz Lecture 2022, NBER Decentralization Conference 2021, Cowls
Conference in Economic Theory 2016,

3
Conference, Session Organization, and Program Committees

2025: Economics and Computation 2025 (Senior Program Committee), Econometric Society World Congress
2025 (Program Committee), SAET (2025) session organizer, Rational Inattention Conference II,
NorthwesternU-UChicago Economic Theory Conference 2025

2024: European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (Program Committee), Economics and
Computation 2024 (Program Committee), Faruk Gul’s 65 Birthday Conference (2024, Organizer),
NorthwesternU-UChicago Economic Theory Conference 2024,

2023: SAET session organizer 2023, NorthwesternU-UChicago Economic Theory Conference 2023, Rational
Inattention Conference 2023, Economics and Computation (Program Committee, 2023),

2022: Faculty sponsor for Women in Economic Theory Conference (WiET) 2022, NorthwesternU-UChicago
Economic Theory Conference 2022,

2019: NWU-UChicago Economic Theory Conference 2019, SAET Program Committee 2019,

2028: CEME 2018 Conference Organizer (Nov 2018), Economic Theory IV BFI Conference Organizer (August,
2018), Economic Theory III BFI Conference Organizer (July, 2017), EconCon (now known as YES) 2012
Conference Organizer.

Refereeing Services

Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review
of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Review: Insights,
Games and Economic Behavior, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Political Economy: Micro,
Journal of Mathematical Economics, International Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic
Theory, Journal of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic
Letters, Management Science, Journal of Health Economics.

Grants, Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

2017-2021 NSF Grant SES-1730168 – Credibility in Persuasion

2012 The Stephen Goldfeld Memorial Summer Fellowship
2010 Berglass Prize for the best MA thesis
2006 – 2008 Tel-Aviv University Economics Department merit-based scholarship
2006 – 2007 Hendelsman scholarship for excellent academic achievements
2004 – 2005 Memorial scholarship for excellent academic achievement

Students (committee member or advisor)

Hazen Eckert (2023-24), Christoph Schlom (2023-24), Sulagna Dasgupta (2023-24), Takuma Habu (2022-23), Kai
Hao Yang (2019-20).