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ANDREW ELLIS
Department of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE UK
Phone: +44(0)20-7955-6868
Email: a.ellis@lse.ac.uk
Web site: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ellisa1/
Last updated May 2015
EMPLOYMENT
July 2013--: Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, May 2013
Committee: Larry Epstein (main), Jawwad Noor, Bart Lipman, Laurent Bouton
M.A., Political Economy, Boston University, May 2010
B.A., Mathematics and Economics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, May 2007
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Political Economy
WORKING PAPERS
“Foundations for Optimal Inattention,” April, 2014.
“Condorcet Meets Ellsberg,” May 2015. Conditionally accepted, Theoretical Economics
“Advertising with Costly Attention,” May, 2013.
“Complexity, Correlation and Choice,” with Michele Piccione, May 2015
WORK IN PROGRESS
“On Costly Transmission and Acquisition of Information” with Caroline Thomas (Texas)
“Dynamic Optimal Inattention”
CONFERENCES AND EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS
2014-2015: SOCRATES workshop, Cowles Foundation Conference, East Anglia,
LSE Choice Group, London Business School, Texas
2013-2014: European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee),
Royal Economic Society (Manchester), Rochester, Oxford, Warwick
2012-2013: Bounded Rationality in Choice Workshop (St Andrews), Johns Hopkins,
Duke, Bocconi, Penn State, Northwestern (Kellogg MEDS), Michigan, LSE,
NYU Decision Theory Workshop, NSF/NBER/CEME Conference in
Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium Theory (Indiana)
2011-2012: North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society
(Northwestern), Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Conference (Northwestern),
Interactions Among Ambiguity-Averse Agents Workshop (Max Planck
Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
2010-2011: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Conference (Collegio Carlo Alberto),
Midwest Economic Theory Conference (Notre Dame)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Mathematics for MRes, PhD (LSE)
Lecturer, Microeconomic Theory for Research Students, PhD (LSE, 2x)
Lecturer, Economic Theory and its Applications. Undergraduate: (LSE, 2x)
Lecturer, Behavioral Economics, Undergraduate: Fall 2012 (BU)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Spring 2011 & 2012: Research Assistant, Professor Jawwad Noor.
Summer 2010, Spring 2011 & 2012: Research Assistant, Professor Larry Epstein.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Fall 2008- Spring 2009 & Fall 2012: Teaching Fellowship, BU Economics Department.
Summer 2009 & 2011: Summer research grant, BU Economics Department.
Fall 2011: Huse Foundation Scholarship .
Fall 2010 & Spring 2010: Special research fellowship, BU Economics Department.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrica,
Theoretical Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Public Choice,
and Games and Economic Behavior
OTHER: BU Economics Department soccer team captain (3 time intramural champions)
CITIZENSHIP/VISA: United States of America, Tier 2 UK visa
REFERENCES
Professor Larry Epstein (lepstein@bu.edu)
Professor Jawwad Noor (jnoor@bu.edu)
Professor Barton Lipman (blipman@bu.edu)
Professor Laurent Bouton (lbouton@bu.edu)