Santiago Oliveros

Assistant Professor
Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business 545 Student Services Building #1900 Berkeley, California 94720-1900 Office: xxxxxxxxx Office Phone: xxxxxxxx e-mail: xxxxxxxx webpage: xxxxxxx

Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, UW-Madison. 2006. MA in Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella , Argentina. 2005. MS in Economics, UW- Madison. 2003. Licentiate in Economics (6 year program), UBA, Argentina. 1998.

Honors and Awards

University Dissertator Fellowship, UW- Madison. 2005-2006. Microeconomic Theory Prelim passed with Distinction. 2002. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, UW- Madison. 2001-2002. Philip Loring Allen Fellowship, UW- Madison. 2001.

Research
Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy. Dissertation: Strategic acquisition and use of information in committees.

Working Papers
"Information acquisition and flexible preferences in committees". Nov 2005. "Choosing what to protect. Strategic defensive allocation against an unknown attacker". Joint with Vicki Bier and Larry Samuelson. Oct 2005. Forthcoming Journal of Public Economic Theory.

Work in Progress
"Equilibrium bluffs: a model of rational feints". Feb 2005. "Dirty Campaigns". Oct 2004. "A note on communication with partial coincidence of preferences". Sep 2004.

Seminar Presentations
"Information acquisition and flexible preferences in committees", Econ UWMadison. (Oct 05), UTDT- Argentina (Dec 05), Univ. of Virginia (Jan 2006), Nuffield College- Oxford (Jan 06), Univ. of Maryland (Jan 06), Univ. of Texas-

Austin (Jan 06), Haas- Berkeley (Feb 06), ITAM- Mexico (Feb 06), Polisci UWMadison (Mar 06). "Endogenous information and optimal rules of election", UW- Madison (Nov 04).

Congress Presentations
"Choosing what to protect. Strategic defensive allocation against an unknown attacker" (with V. Bier and L. Samuelson), INFORMS, San Francisco (Nov 05).

Previous Work Experience

Research Assistant. Professor: Larry Samuelson, UW- Madison. 2004-2005. Project Assistant. Professor: Larry Samuelson, UW- Madison. Summer 2004. Project Assistant. Professor: Igal Hendel, UW- Madison. 2002-2004. Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Economics and Finance, UADE. 20002001. Research Assistant, Institute of Economic Research- I.D.E., UADE. 1999- 2000. Part Time Research Assistant (UNDP Contract), Special Studies Department, A.D.I. Secretariat of Industry, Trade and Mining, Ministry of Economy, Argentina. 1997-1998. Part time Research Assistant, Programa Crecer, Argentina. 1997.

Teaching Haas School of Business

UGBA 117-2 Game Theory for Negotiations. Fall 2006.

Undergraduate
TA- Econ 101: Principles-Microeconomics. UW- Madison, Prof.: Marvin B. Johnson. Summer 2003. TA- Econ 101: Principles-Microeconomics. UW- Madison, Prof.: Marvin B. Johnson. Summer 2004. Lecturer- Microeconomic Analysis and Advanced Macroeconomics. UADE. Best Teacher (students poll). UADE. 2000-2001 TA- Advanced Microeconomics. Best TA (students poll). UADE. 2000. TA- Money, Credit and Banks, Microeconomics II, Macroeconomics II, Microeconomics I. UBA. 1997-2001

High School
Teacher- Economics. 4th and 5th year, St. John's School, Argentina. 1997-1999

Executive Programs
Lecturer: Applied mathematical economics, ISEG., Argentina, March 2001.

Lecturer: Economics of Information and Contracts. Program in Economics of Regulation of Public Utilities, UADE- CEER- World Bank. Montevideo, Uruguay (Sep 2000); Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sep 2000, Jan 2000, Sep 1999, Apr 1999). Lecturer: Microeconomics. Introduction to Welfare economics. Program in Economics of Regulation of Public Utilities, UADE- CEER- World Bank. Montevieo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sep 1999). TA: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. ISEG, Argentina (Jul 1999) Last updated: June 2006