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James Best

Associate Professor of Economics

Tepper School of Business

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  • Associate Professor of Economics
    Tepper School of Business
  • 412-268-2215
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference (opens in a new tab)⁠
    10 Jul 2025
    European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory
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  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    10 Jun 2025
    QMUL-City Workshop in Economic Theory
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
    10 Jun 2025 - 12 Jul 2025
    Anonymous peer review
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    2 Jun 2025
    Oligo Conference, Discussant
  • NON-RESEARCH / INVITED PRESENTATION
    Divide or Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
    20 May 2025
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Review of Economic Studies
    20 May 2025 - 24 Jul 2025
    Anonymous peer review
  • NON-RESEARCH / INVITED PRESENTATION
    Divide or Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
    7 May 2025
    Durham University
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Econometrica
    14 Nov 2024 - 1 Mar 2025
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Economic Theory
    20 Sep 2024 - 13 Dec 2024
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    13 Sep 2024
    Sixth Annual Columbia Conference on Economic Theory
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Economics Educational Affairs Committee
    1 Sep 2024
    Member
  • CMU COMMITTEE SERVICE
    Economics Educational Affairs Committee
    1 Sep 2024
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    15 Jul 2024
    Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory. Session Organiser.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    5 Jun 2024
    Durham Economic Theory Conference
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    3 Jun 2024
    Cowles Theory Conference
  • NON-RESEARCH / INVITED PRESENTATION
    Optimal Communication Design
    3 Jun 2024
  • NON-RESEARCH / INVITED PRESENTATION
    Optimal Communication Design
    14 May 2024
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    26 Apr 2024
    Pennsylvania Economic Theory Conference
  • NON-RESEARCH / INVITED PRESENTATION
    Presentation to Student Economic Research Society
    14 Mar 2024
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    8 Jan 2024
    SAET Conference
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    17 Dec 2023
    European Meeting of the Econometric Society
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    The American Economic Review
    15 Jun 2023 - 26 Aug 2023
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    28 Apr 2023
    PETCO Theory Conference
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (opens in a new tab)⁠
    19 Jan 2023 - 19 Apr 2024
    Anonymous peer review
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  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of Economic Theory
    4 Jan 2023 - 21 Apr 2023