Alexander Frug

UPF and BSE

PhD, Tel Aviv University

Research interests

  • Information Economics
  • Game Theory
  • Economic Theory
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Teaching at the Barcelona School of Economics

Alexander Frug is Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a BSE Affiliated Professor. His research interests include Information Economics, Game Theory, and Economic Theory.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

  • 2021: BSE Seed Grant, “Time Management and Optimal Scheduling of Attention”
  • 2017: BSE Seed Grant, “Training with Strategic Feedback”

Working Papers

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A Theory of Front-Line Management

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1537
November 2025
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On the Impossibility of Stability-Based Equilibria in Infinite Horizon: An Example

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Alexander FrugandMalachy James Gavan
BSE Working Paper 1536
December 2025
Working Paper

Clerks

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Kfir Eliaz,Daniel Fershtman, andAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1535
November 2025
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Keeping in the Dark with Hard Evidence

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1534
November 2025
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Toxic Types and Infectious Communication Breakdown

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Kfir EliazandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1224
December 2020
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Optimal Contracts with Randomly Arriving Tasks

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1147
January 2020
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On Strategic Transmission of Gradually Arriving Information

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Alexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1146
January 2020
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Monotone Contracts

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 1085
April 2019
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Dynamic Nonmonetary Incentives

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 938
October 2016
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Strategic Gradual Learning and Information Transmission

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Alexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 937
October 2016
Working Paper

When to Learn what in Bilateral Trade

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Kfir EliazandAlexander Frug
BSE Working Paper 936
October 2016

Publications

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When Half a Boycott Makes a Winner: On Eurovision Voting

Open Access
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Alexander Frug
Economic Letters

October 2025
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On Optimal Scheduling

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Kfir Eliaz, Daniel Fershtman, and Alexander Frug
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

November 2024
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Toxic types and infectious communication breakdown

Open Access
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Kfir EliazandAlexander Frug
Games and Economic Behavior

October 2023
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Optimal Contracts with Randomly Arriving Tasks

Open Access
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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
The Economic Journal

October 2022
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Monotone Contracts

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
Theoretical Economics

July 2022
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Strategic Gradual Learning and Information Transmission

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Alexander Frug
Journal of Economic Theory

January 2019
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Dynamic Nonmonetary Incentives

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Daniel BirdandAlexander Frug
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

January 2019
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Bilateral trade with strategic gradual learning

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Kfir EliazandAlexander Frug
Games and Economic Behavior

January 2018
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A note on optimal cheap talk equilibria in a discrete state space

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Alexander Frug
Games and Economic Behavior

January 2017
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Dynamic cheap talk with static informational control

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Alexander Frug
Economics Letters

July 2016
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