Francisco Poggi

Francisco Poggi

Assistant Professor

University of Mannheim


I am a microeconomic theorist exploring how incentives to acquire, elicit, disclose, and conceal information shape economic interactions. I am interested in innovation, law, and industrial organization.


I joined the University of Mannheim as an Assistant Professor (W1) after graduating from Northwestern University (2021).


Research:

Strategic Concelament in Innovation Races. with Yonggyun Kim
  • Firms might avoid patenting intermediate innovations, even when this would mean capturing the full social value of the innovation.

Market-based Mechanisms. with Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey
  • How can policies use information contained in market outcomes when market participants care about the policy itself?

A Taxation Principle with Non-Contractible Events. with Bruno Strulovici
  • Sometimes, eliciting private information becomes redundant.

The Timing of Complementary Innovations.
  • Breakthroughs always enhance incentives to work on complementary projects, but only when the timing is endogenous.

Liability Design with Information Acquisition. with Bruno Strulovici
  • How should liability be determined for an agent who acquires information about an unknown risk?