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Laura Doval

Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Business
Economics Division
Laura Doval
Areas of Expertise
Marketplace Design, Microeconomics, Organizations & Markets, Strategy
Contact
Office: 581 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Laura Doval is the Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Business in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. She is a microeconomic theorist working in the areas of mechanism design, market design, and information economics. Her work has been published in Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy.

Professor Doval is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (Industrial Organization), and an Associate Editor at Theoretical Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Economic Theory.

Professor Doval received her Ph.D. from Northwestern in 2016. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

Education
B.A., Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2009; M.A., Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2010; M.A., Economics, Northwestern University, 2012; Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 2016
Joined CBS
2020

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Buchholz, Nicholas, Laura Doval , Jakub Kastl, Filip Matejka, and Tobias Salz
. “Personalized Pricing and the Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides.”
Econometrica
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Doval, Laura and Alex Smolin
. “The welfare impact of recommendation algorithms.”
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
vol.
22
, no.
2
(March 01, 2025):
56
-
65
.
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Journal Article
Doval, Laura
. “Dynamically Stable Matching.”
Theoretical Economics
vol.
17
, (January 01, 2022):
687
-
724
.
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Journal Article
Doval, Laura and Jeffrey Ely
. “Sequential Information Design.”
Econometrica
vol.
86
, (November 01, 2020):
2575
-
2608
.
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Journal Article
Doval, Laura
. “Whether or Not to Open Pandora's Box.”
Journal of Economic Theory
vol.
175
, (May 01, 2018):
127
-
158
.
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Journal Article
Doval, Laura and V. Skreta
. “Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment.”
Econometrica
vol.
90
, (January 01, 2011):
1463
-
1500
.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura
. The Value of TimeAcross Space: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides. June 01, 2022.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and A. Smolin
. Information Payoffs: An Interim Perspective. September 01, 2021.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and Vasiliki Skreta
. Purchase History and Product Personalization. June 17, 2021.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and Vasiliki Skreta
. Constrained Information Design. June 10, 2021.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and Vasiliki Skreta
. Optimal Mechanism for the Sale of a Durable Good. May 28, 2021.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and Vasiliki Skreta
. Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment. March 21, 2021.
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Working Paper
Buchholz, Nicholas, Laura Doval , Jakub Kastl, Filip Matejka, and Tobias Salz
. The Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides. August 13, 2020.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and J. Ely
. Bayes’ rule where possible. January 01, 2020.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura and Balázs Szentes
. On the Efficiency of Queueing in Dynamic Matching Markets. July 18, 2019.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura
. A theory of stability in Dynamic Matching Market. March 01, 2018.
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Working Paper
Doval, Laura
. Dynamic and Many-to-many matching. May 01, 2016.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Course
B9219: Topics in Industrial Organizations
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Course
B8216: Economics of Strategic Behavior
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Course
B7216: Economics of Strategic Behavior
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  • Awards & Honors
2019

Review of Economic Studies

2018

American Economic Review

2012

Northwestern University

2010

Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas

2009

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

2009

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

2009

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

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Designing Smarter Economic Systems: A New Approach to Mechanism Design

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