Martin Dumav

Bio

Martin Dumav holds a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Economics from Emory University, and a B.S. in Management Engineering (summa cum laude) from Istanbul Technical University. Before joining Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bielefeld University. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UC3M and has also been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow. His research focuses on economic theory and behavioral economics, with additional interests in applied theory, political economy, and information economics. He serves as Associate Editor of the European Economic Review.

Main Publications

• Martin Dumav, Urmee Khan and Luca Rigotti,  ''Optimal Contracts When Players Think Differently'', Economic Theory, 2025.
• Martin Dumav, William Fuchs and Jangwoo Lee, ''Self-Enforcing Contracts with Persistence'' (2022),  Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022.
• Philipp Denter, Martin Dumav and Boris Ginzburg, "Social Connectivity, Media Bias, and Correlation Neglect", The Economic Journal, 2021.
• Martin Dumav and Maxwell Stinchcombe, "The Multiple Priors of the Open-Minded Decision Maker", Economic Theory, 2021.
• Martin Dumav and Urmee Khan, "Moral Hazard with Non-additive Uncertainty: When are Actions Implementable?", Economics Letters, 2018.
• Martin Dumav and Maxwell Stinchcombe, "Skorokhod's Representation Theorem for Sets of Probabilities", Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, 2016.

 

Recent Research

• Martin Dumav, ''Moral Hazard, Dynamic Incentives, and Ambiguous Perceptions'' (Rej&ReSub at Journal of Economic Theory) (in progress).
• Martin Dumav and Urmee Khan , ''Moral Hazard, Uncertain Technologies, and Robust Contracts''.
• Martin Dumav and Maxwell Stinchcombe, ''Von Neumann/Morgenstern Approach to Ambiguity''.

Teaching

Microeconomics I (PhD), Undergraduate Microeconomic Theory (Undergraduate)