I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. My research is in economic theory, with a special focus on information design, mechanism design, and the digital economy.
I am spending the 2024-2025 academic year at Northwestern University and Columbia University.
My CV is here.
Contact Information:
Office: 571, Henry R. Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School, 665 W 130th St, New York, NY 10027
E-mail: alexey.v.smolin [at] gmail.com
Academic Profile: Google Scholar
Working Papers:
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing,
with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti, February 2025. [arXiv]Buyer-Optimal Algorithmic Consumption, with Shota Ichihashi, September 2024. [arXiv]
Media coverage: UPenn EODS.Information Design in Smooth Games, with Takuro Yamashita, December 2023. [arXiv] [VSET talk]
Theoretical Economics, revision requested.Data Provision to an Informed Seller, with Shota Ichihashi, March 2023. [arXiv]
Publications:
Persuasion and Welfare, with Laura Doval.
Journal of Political Economy, 132(7), pp. 2451–2487, 2024, [published], [working]Optimal Technology Design, with Daniel Garrett, George Georgiadis, and Balázs Szentes, Online Appendix.
Journal of Economic Theory, 209, 105621, 2023, [published], [working]Disclosure and Pricing of Attributes.
RAND Journal of Economics, 54(4), pp. 570-597, 2023, [published], [working]Dynamic Evaluation Design.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(4), pp. 300-331, 2021. [published], [working]Cream Skimming and Information Design in Matching Markets, with Gleb Romanyuk.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(2), pp. 250-276, 2019. [published], [working]
Media coverage: AEA Research Highlights.Dynamic Communication with Biased Senders, with Chiara Margaria.
Games and Economic Behavior, 110, pp. 330-339, 2018. [published], [working]The Design and Price of Information, with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti.
American Economic Review, 108(1), pp. 1-48, 2018. [published], [working]
Media coverage: LSE Business Review.
Conference Proceedings:
Information Design in Concave Games (extended abstract), with Takuro Yamashita.
The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 870, 2022. [link]The Optimality of Upgrade Pricing, with Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, and Andreas Haupt.
The 17th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, pp. 41-58, 2021. [published], [working]