Lars Stole

Lars A. Stole studies strategic pricing, contracts and incentives theory, industrial economics, game theory and price theory. Stole's research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of International Economics to name a few. Most recently, his article titled "Price Discrimination in Competitive Environments" was published 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. He was selected for the Review of Economic Studies 1991 Conference Tour.

Stole is a research fellow for CESifo. He has also taught courses 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 was appointed editor of the Rand Journal of Economics in 1997, a position he held for four years. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1991.

Selected Publications

"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 Canice Prendergast, "The Non-monetary Nature of Gifts," European Economic Review (2002).

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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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