PUBLICATIONS
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Maher Said. 2013. "Progressive Screening: Long Term Contracting With a Privately Known Stochastic Process."
Review of Economic Studies, 80(1): 1-34.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and David L Kelly. 2014.
"Dynamic Regulation Design Without Payments: the Importance of Timing."
Journal of Public Economics, 120: 169-180. (supplement)
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2015.
"Information and Extremism in Elections."
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(1): 165-207.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2015.
"Grading Standards and Education Quality."
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(2): 248-279.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Tracy Lewis. 2016. "Evolving Influence: Mitigating Extreme Conflicts of Interest in Advisory Relationships."
Games and Economic Behavior, 98:110-34.
Boleslavsky, Raphael, David Kelly, and Curtis Taylor. 2017.
"Selloffs, Bailouts, and Feedback: Can Asset Markets Inform Policy?"
Journal of Economic Theory, 169: 294-343.
Boleslavsky, Raphael, Christopher Cotton, and Haresh Gurnani. 2017.
"Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release."
Management Science, 63(6): 2016-2026.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Cotton. 2018. "Limited Capacity in Project Selection: Competition Through Evidence Production."
Economic Theory, 65(2):385-421.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Mehdi Shadmehr and Konstantin Sonin. 2021
“Media Freedom in the Shadow of a Coup.”
Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(3): 1782-1815.
Shadmehr, Mehdi and Raphael Boleslavsky. 2022.
“International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest.”
Journal of Politics, 84(1): 148-165.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Christopher Hennessy and David Kelly. 2022 “Markets vs. Mechanisms”
Review of Financial Studies, 35(7): 3139-3174.
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Curtis Taylor. 2024.
“Make It ‘Til You Fake It”
Journal of Economic Theory, 217: Article 105812. (supplement)
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Aaron Kolb. 2026
”The Design and Price of Influence”
RAND Journal of Economics, accepted (supplement)
Boleslavsky, Raphael and Cheng Li. 2026
”Evaluating University Graduates: Prestige vs. Merit”
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, accepted
Hwang, Ilwoo and Kyungmin Kim and Raphael Boleslavsky. 2026
”Competitive Advertising and Pricing”
Review of Economic Studies, accepted
WORKING PAPERS
Limits of Disclosure in Search Markets
(with Silvana Krasteva) R&R
Signaling With Commitment
(with Mehdi Shadmehr) R&R
Judicial Independence and Government Repression in Autocracies
(with Mehdi Shadmehr and Tom Ginsburg)
Disincentive Effects of Evaluation
(with Bruce Carlin and Christopher Cotton)
Bayesian Persuasion and Moral Hazard
(with Kyungmin Kim). (slides)
Repression Backfire
(with Mehdi Shadmehr).
Note: Some of these findings appear in the followup
“International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest.”
PEOPLE
Bruce Carlin (Jones School of Business, Rice University)
Christopher Cotton (Department of Economics, Queen's University)
Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago School of Law)
Haresh Gurnani (College of Business, Stony Brook University)
Christopher Hennessy (London Business School)
Ilwoo Hwang (Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
David Kelly (Department of Economics, University of Miami)
Kyungmin Kim (Department of Economics, Emory University)
Aaron Kolb (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)
Silvana Krasteva (Department of Economics, Texas A&M)
Tracy Lewis
Cheng Li (Wenlan School of Business, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)
Maher Said (Stern School of Business, New York University)
Mehdi Shadmehr (Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Konstantin Sonin (Harris School, University of Chicago)
Curtis Taylor (Department of Economics, Duke University)
