Lars Stole

Lars A. Stole studies strategic pricing, contracts and incentives theory, industrial economics and game theory. Stole's research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies , and the RAND Journal of Economics to name a few. He has published a comprehensive survey of recent research in strategic price discrimination in "Price Discrimination in Competitive Environments" which has appeared in the Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume 3.

He has been awarded numerous prizes for his research. Stole has received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics from the Harvard Law School. Stole is currently a research fellow for CESifo. In the past he has lectured at MIT, CERGE in Prague, and CES in Munich.

After earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1985 and a master's degree from the London School of Economics the following year, Stole studied at Yale University, MIT, and Harvard University Law School before earning a PhD in economics from MIT in 1991. As a student, he worked as a consultant for the Rand Corporation and served as editor of the Rand Journal of Economics from 1997 to 2001. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1991. He currently serves as Co-Director of the Applied Theory Initiative which he co-founded in 2009.

Selected Publications

With David Martimort, “Market Participation in Delegated and Intrinsic Common-Agency Games,” RAND Journal of Economics (2009).

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"Price Discrimination in Competitive Environments," Handbook of Industrial Organization (2008).

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With Jeffrey Zwiebel, "Involuntary Unemployment and Intrafirm Bargaining," American Economic Review (2003).

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With David Martimort, "The Revelation and Delegation Principles in Common Agency Games," Econometrica (2002).

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With Jean-Charles Rochet, "Nonlinear Pricing with Random Participation," Review of Economic Studies (2002).

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