Sjaak Hurkens

IAE-CSIC and BSE

PhD, Tilburg University

Research interests

  • Game Theory
  • Microeconomics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Regulation
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Sjaak Hurkens is a Research Professor at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor.

He has previously been an Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and an HCM Fellow at University College London (UCL).

His main research interests are Game Theory, Microeconomics and Industrial Organization. He has contributed to the literature on equilibrium refinements, learning, communication, and information acquisition. In recent work he studies models of bargaining where deadlines play a role. He is also interested in Experimental Economics and telecom regulation issues.

Working Papers

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Crowdfunding with Sequential Moves and Costly Common Value Signals

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
BSE Working Paper 1548
January 2026
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Optimal Investment-Based Crowdfunding: Crowdblessing Versus Scale

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
BSE Working Paper 1540
December 2025
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The Limits of Crowdfunding with Common Values

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
BSE Working Paper 1477
February 2025
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A Theory of Crowdfunding -A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard: Comment

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
BSE Working Paper 1012
January 2018
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Who Should Pay for Two-Way Interconnection?

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Sjaak HurkensandAngel Luis López
BSE Working Paper 774
September 2015
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On the Optimality of Pure Bundling for a Monopolist

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Sjaak Hurkens,Doh-Shin Jeon, andDomenico Menicucci
BSE Working Paper 771
September 2015
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Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in ‘Linear’ Cournot Models with Private Information about Costs

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Sjaak Hurkens
BSE Working Paper 674
September 2015
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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities, and Consumer Expectations

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Sjaak HurkensandAngel Luis López
BSE Working Paper 441
September 2015
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Mobile Termination and Mobile Penetration

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Sjaak HurkensandDoh-Shin Jeon
BSE Working Paper 393
September 2015
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing

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Sjaak HurkensandDoh-Shin Jeon
BSE Working Paper 324
September 2015
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Dynamic Matching and Bargaining: The Role of Deadlines

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Sjaak HurkensandNir Vulkan
BSE Working Paper 188
September 2015
Working Paper

Endogenous Private Information Structures

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Sjaak HurkensandNir Vulkan
BSE Working Paper 38
September 2015

Publications

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Mobile termination rates and retail regimes in Europe and the US: A unified theory of CPP and RPP

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Sjaak HurkensandAngel Luis López
Information Economics and Policy

July 2021
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Optimal crowdfunding design

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
Journal of Economic Theory

September 2019
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Fraud tolerance in optimal crowdfunding

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Matthew EllmanandSjaak Hurkens
Economics Letters

May 2019
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Dominance and Competitive Bundling

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Sjaak Hurkens, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Domenico Menicucci
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

January 2019
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On the optimality of pure bundling for a monopolist

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Sjaak Hurkens, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Domenico Menicucci
Journal of Mathematical Economics

March 2016
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Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in ‘Linear’ Cournot Models with Private Information About Costs

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Sjaak Hurkens
International Journal of Economic Theory

December 2015
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Dynamic Matching and Bargaining with Heterogeneous Deadlines

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Sjaak HurkensandNir Vulkan
International Journal of Game Theory

December 2015
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Interbank Competition with Costly Screening

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Xavier Freixas, Sjaak Hurkens, Alan D. Morrison, and Nir Vulkan
B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

December 2015
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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities, and Consumer Expectations

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Sjaak HurkensandAngel Luis López
The Economic Journal

December 2015
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Would I Lie to You? on Social Preferences and Lying Aversion

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Sjaak HurkensandNavin Kartik
Experimental Economics

December 2015
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Promoting Network Competition By Regulating Termination Charges

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Sjaak HurkensandDoh-Shin Jeon
International Journal of Industrial Organization

January 2012
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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation in Asymmetric Oligopolies: the Case of Spain

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Sjaak HurkensandAngel Luis López
Telecommunications Policy

January 2012
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: No Termination-Based Price Discrimination

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Sjaak Hurkens
The RAND Journal of Economics

January 2008
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Endogenous Private Information Structures

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Sjaak HurkensandNir Vulkan
European Economic Review

January 2006
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