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Emir Kamenica

Assistant Professor of Economics

Emir Kamenica studies a variety of topics including behavioral industrial organization, dating markets, and discrimination. He has published work in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.

He earned a PhD in economics in 2006 and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in 2001, both from Harvard University.

Selected Publications

"Contextual Inference in Markets: On Informational Content of Product Lines," American Economic Review (forthcoming).

With Dan Ariely and Drazen Prelec, "Man's Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming).

With Ray Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, and Itamar Simonson, "Racial Preferences in Dating," Review of Economic Studies (2008).

With Ray Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, and Itamar Simonson, "Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006).

 
   

Courses
33610 Applied Economics Workshop 2009(Spring)
42001 Competitive Strategy 2009(Winter)

Other Interests
Literature, film, food.