Nenad Kos

Nenad Kos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, a position he has held since 2016. He is also affiliated with the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) and is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

He earned his PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 2008, under the supervision of Asher Wolinsky, after completing his undergraduate studies in Economics at the University of Ljubljana. He joined Bocconi University as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016.

Professor Kos’s research lies at the intersection of mechanism design, information economics, and behavioral approaches to economic institutions. His work investigates how economic agents behave and interact under conditions of informational asymmetry, ambiguity, and strategic interdependence, with applications to auctions, contracts, firm takeovers, and — more recently — behavioral responses within epidemic models.

His current research agenda focuses on extending models of bargaining to contexts where agents can invest in expertise or delegate negotiations to representatives, and on studying how such mechanisms influence outcomes and efficiency. More broadly, his work continues to explore the behavioral dimensions of strategic interaction in economic environments.