Contact Information:
University of Chicago Office: (773) 702-1933
1126 E 59th St. Chicago, Il 60637 Fax: (773) 702-8490
http://wfuchs.googlepages.com/ wfuchs (@) uchicago (.) edu
Education:
2000-2005 Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford, CA
• PhD. in Economics
• Advisors: T. Sargent and A. Skrzypacz
1995-1999 Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Licenciatura in Economics and Licenciatura in Business
• Advisor: Juan Pablo Nicolini
Employment:
2005 - Assistant Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
1999-2000 Business Analyst at Hermes Management Consulting (Argentina)
Research:
Published Papers:
Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation (with Francesco Lippi)
Review of Economic Studies No.2, Volume: 73, April 2006.
CEPR/ESI Prize 2004 for the Best Central Bank Research Paper.
Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations
American Economic Review Volume 97, Number 4 September 2007.
Landau Prize for Best Student Working Paper.
Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders (with Andy Skrzypacz)
Forthcoming at the American Economic Review.
Work in Progress:
Subjective evaluations: The bonus as a signal of performance
Dividing and Discarding: A Procedure for Taking Decisions with Non-Transferable Utility (with Vinicius Carrasco)
The Market for Advice (with Luis Garicano)
Dynamic Signaling and Reputation in a Monetary Policy Game
Fellowships and Awards:
• UTDT: Gold Medal for best GPA
• Stanford: GSB Fellowship, Jaedicke Prize, SIEPR Dissertation Fellowship, Mariscal de Ayacucho Fellowship.
• Review of Economic Studies European Tour 2005.
•NSF Grant 2008-2010
Refereeing
• American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, NSF, Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, Committee Member for the SED 2008 Meetings.
Other
• Visiting Student NYU Fall 2003
• Fluent in Spanish and working knowledge of Italian
• US Citizen
• IZA Research Affiliate