Antonio Penta is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. Prior to joining UPF and BSE, he was Assistant Professor (2010-2016) and then tenured Associate Professor (2016-2018) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He graduated in economics from Bocconi University in 2004, and then obtained a M.A. in 2008 and a Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics and Decisions in Economics and Finance, Associate Faculty at Toulouse School of Economics and a member of the TSE Digital Center.
His research – which has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, and others – focuses on game theory, auctions, mechanism design, decision theory and bounded rationality, and it involves both theoretical and experimental work.
- European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant: "Personality, Preferences and Reference Dependence" (2022)
- European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant: "Strategic Uncertainty in Economic Environments and Digital Marketing Agencies" (2017)
Working Papers
Safe Implementation
Publications
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the Case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Review of Economic Studies, Vol.90, No 5, 2517–2554, October 2023, 10.1093/restud/rdac084Bid Coordination in Sponsored Search Auctions: Detection Methodology and Empirical Analysis
Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.71, No 2, 570 - 592, July 2023, 10.1111/joie.12331Open Access