Department of Computer Science Stanford University Gates Building, Room 128 353 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305 phone: (+1) 650-723-8226 fax: (+1) 650-725-1449 email: nlambert AT stanford.edu

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I am a PhD student at Stanford University, on the job market this year. [ CV download ]
I am also the happy recipient of the 2009 Google Fellowship in Market Algorithms.

Electronic commerce, information economics, statistical decision making, contract theory, market design, prediction markets, algorithmic mechanism design, probability and statistics.

• Eliciting Information on the Distribution of Future Outcomes. (job market paper) [ pdf ]
  
• Probability Elicitation under General Preferences. [ coming soon ]
  
• Forecast Testing under Restricted Spaces. [ coming soon ]
  
• Screening Experts with Contracts. [ coming soon ]
  
• A Note on Combinatorial Betting Market Design. [ coming soon ]
  

• Information, Incentives, and Markets.
  Nicolas Lambert and Yoav Shoham.
  Book chapter in The Handbook of Market Design, eds: Nir Vulkan, Muriel Niederle, and Zvika Neeman.
  Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• Les Entreprises face à la Politique Européenne de la Concurrence. [ Amazon Google book]
  Emmanuel Farhi and Nicolas Lambert.
  Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, May 2006 (in French), ISBN 291176272X.
  The book reports on the recent evolution of European antitrust policy and merger regulations from an economic perspective.

• Eliciting Truthful Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Nicolas Lambert and Yoav Shoham.
  In Proceedings of ACM EC 2009.
  Winner of the Best Paper Award and also the Best Student Paper Award.
• Social Lending. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Ning Chen, Arpita Ghosh and Nicolas Lambert.
  In Proceedings of ACM EC 2009.
• Truthful Surveys. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Nicolas Lambert and Yoav Shoham.
  In Proceedings of WINE 2008.
• Eliciting Properties of Probability Distributions. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Nicolas Lambert, David Pennock and Yoav Shoham.
  In Proceedings of ACM EC 2008.
  (a summary appeared in SIGEcom Exchange, Nov. 2008. [ pdf ] )
• Self-Financed Wagering Mechanisms for Forecasting. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Nicolas Lambert, John Langford, Jenn Wortman, Yiling Chen, Daniel Reeves, Yoav Shoham and David Pennock.
  In Proceedings of ACM EC 2008.
  Winner of the Best Paper Award.
• Complexity of Combinatorial Market Makers. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Yiling Chen, Lance Fortnow, Nicolas Lambert, David Pennock and Jenn Wortman.
  In Proceedings of ACM EC 2008.
• Near-Optimal Search in Continuous Domains. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Ronen Brafman, Samuel leong, Nicolas Lambert and Yoav Shoham.
  In Proceedings of AAAI 2007.
• Asymptotically Optimal Repeated Auctions for Sponsored Search. [ pdf ] [ bibTeX ]
  Nicolas Lambert and Yoav Shoham.
  In Proceedings of ICEC 2007.

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Last updated January 5, 2010