Michael Ostrovsky

About

Michael Ostrovsky was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow for 2008–2009 at the Hoover Institution. He was in residence from September 2008 to June 2009.

He is an economist specializing in game-theoretic aspects of industrial organization and finance. Most recently, he has examined information aggregation in markets, the design of Internet advertising auctions, and the forces influencing proxy voting by mutual funds. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the RAND Journal of Economics.

Ostrovsky is an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches managerial economics in the first year of the MBA program and an elective on market design in the PhD program. He received his BA in mathematics and economics from Stanford University and his AM in economics and PhD in business economics from Harvard University.