Arjada Bardhi

CONTACT Department of Economics INFORMATION Mobile: +1-773-543-8666 419 Drive E-mail:[email protected] 223 Social Sciences Bldg. Web:www.arjadabardhi.com Durham, N.C. 27708

EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University, 2018-present.

EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of Economics, , 2012-2018. Thesis: “Essays on Sampling, Persuasion, and Experimentation” Committee Co-chairs: Bruno Strulovici, Asher Wolinsky

M.A., Economics, Northwestern University, 2015.

B.A., Economics, Mathematics, Law and Society, Bates , 2008-2012. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Betta Kappa, Sigma Xi

RESEARCH Microeconomic theory, Information economics, Political economy INTERESTS PUBLICATIONS “Modes of Persuasion Toward Unanimous Consent,” with Yingni Guo, Theoretical Economics, 13(3) 1111-1149, September 2018.

WORKING PAPERS “Attributes: Selective Learning and Influence.” R&R, Econometrica “Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?”, with Yingni Guo and Bruno Strulovici. “Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics”, with Nina Bobkova. “The Strategic Role of Public Information in the Rise and Growth of Ponzi Schemes: The Case of Albania, 1993-1997.”

FELLOWSHIPS, NSF Award SES-1919329, “Models of Complex Experimentation: Attribute Discovery, Con- AWARDS, GRANTS textual Experimentation, and Experimentation on Causal Graphs” (2019-2022).

Conference Travel Grant, Center for Economic Theory (NU), 2017.

Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 2014-2016.

Conference Travel Grant, TGS (NU), 2015, 2016.

Travel Grant, Center for Economic History (NU), 2015.

Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Buffett Institute (NU), 2015, 2017.

PROFESSIONAL Referee: AEJ: Micro, Econometrica, Economic Journal, International Journal of Game The- SERVICE ory, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Theoretical Economics.

1 of 2 CONFERENCES 2021: Yale (scheduled) AND INVITED SEMINARS 2020: Columbia Political Economy Seminar, Organizational Economics Workshop, Princeton Political Economy Workshop, Aalto, SITE Summer Workshop: Political Economic Theory, SaMMF Workshop on Theories of Discrimination, Penn State PennTheon

2019: NYU Stern IO Seminar, ASU Annual Theory Conference, SEA Annual Conference, Columbia, University of Bonn Theory Workshop, UChicago BFI Theory Conference, North American Summer Meetings, UCSD, Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Stanford GSB,

2018: Cambridge, UCL, SEA Annual Meetings, SITE Summer Workshops (Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets), 29th Stony Brook International Conference in Game Theory, York University, University of Southern California, Duke, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Col- legio Carlo Alberto, Bocconi, European University Institute, (Booth), Stanford GSB

2017: Oxford, Summer School of Econometric Society

2016: EconCon (Princeton), 27th Stony Brook International Conference in Game Theory

CONFERENCE “Robust Voter Persuasion” by Carl Heese and Stephan Lauermann (AEA Meetings, 2019) DISCUSSIONS TEACHING Duke University, 2019-present EXPERIENCE ECON 490/690: Political Economics (Undergraduate / Graduate, Spring 2021) ECON 690: Continuous-Time Methods in Economic Theory (Graduate, Spring 2019-20) ECON 885: Persuasion and Information Design (Graduate, Spring 2020)

Northwestern University, Teaching Assistant, 2013-2016

Introduction to Microeconomics (2013), Introduction to Microeconomics (2014, 2015), In- termediate Microeconomics I / II (2014), Graduate Microeconomics (2015), Behavioral Economics (2016), Mathematical Methods of Economic Theory — Math Camp (2016)

PERSONAL Citizenship: Albanian. U.S. Permanent Resident. INFORMATION

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