Ilia Krasikov
Ilia Krasikov

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University and a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I work on various topics in economic theory including mechanism design and repeated games. I also study public finance with a focus on optimal taxation.

Working Papers

R&R at Econometrica

Uncertain repeated games  

R&R at Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Optimal Taxation of Couples

Pareto-improving Tax Reforms (Draft coming soon) 

The APS Approach for Undiscounted Quitting Games 

Hard Information Design 

Behavioral epidemiology: An economic model to evaluate optimal policy in the midst of a pandemic 

Scoring And Favoritism (Draft coming soon) 

Publications

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

On Dynamic Pricing 

Journal of Economic Theory

A Theory of Dynamic Contracting with Financial Constraints 

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Implications of unequal discounting in dynamic contracting 

with Rohit Lamba and Thomas Mettral
Mathematical Programming Series B

Absorption Paths and Equilibria in Quitting Games 

In Progress

Optimal Taxation in a Job Ladder Model 

Uncertain Repeated Games for Fixed Discounting 

Multi-Dimensional Taxation  

Optimal Dynamic Allocation with Costly Verification