Samuel Taggart (Preferred)
Samuel Taggart
Associate Professor, Oberlin College
- Joined September 2023
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@oberlin.edu (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Associate Professor
Oberlin College (oberlin.edu)
2023 – Present
Assistant Professor
Oberlin College (oberlin.edu)
2017 – 2023
PhD student
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University (eecs.northwestern.edu)
2012 – 2017
Undergrad student
Oberlin College (oberlin.edu)
2007 – 2012
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Matthew von Allmen
2021 – Present
Coauthor
Rishi Patel
2021 – Present
Coauthor
Meryem Essaidi
2020 – Present
Expertise
mechanism design, allocation of social services, money burning
Present
mechanism design for social good, resource allocation
Present
contract theory, simple versus optimal mechanisms, assortment optimization
Present
dynamic pricing, mechanism design without commitment, persuasion
Present
economics of privacy, behavioral economics
Present
non-truthful mechanisms, ad auctions, sample complexity
Present
price of anarchy, first-price auctions, all-pay auctions
Present
development economics, AI in finance
Present