Carlos Vich茅 Montahud
Carlos Vich茅
Ph.D. 1st Year Student
Research Interests
- Game Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Microeconomic Theory
Contact details
Email: Carlos dot Viche at warwick dot ac dot uk
Advice and feedback hours:
- Tuesdays: 11:30 - 13:30
- Thursday: 13:00 - 15:00
Please email me or use this to schedule an appointment during my weekly Advice & Feedback hours.
Working Papers:
- Optimal Subsidy Design: We study a principal–agent model with observable actions and private costs and introduce a constructive 鈥�constraint-ironing鈥� method mapping primitives to optimal subsidies. It provides exact tests for pooling via an effective virtual marginal cost, implies zero subsidies/rents when the default is optimal, and shows that stronger diminishing returns shrink pooling and payments, while a default farther from the principal鈥檚 preferred action expands pooling and subsidies.
- Epistemic Coalition Formation: We study coalition formation when players can merge only by sharing their knowledge; with actions conditioned on posterior knowledge structures within coalitions, equilibria are characterized by the initial knowledge profile.
Teaching
- EC107: Economics 1 (Term 1)
- EC109: Microeconomics 1 (Term 2)