Rate My Professor Vladimir Smirnov

Smirnov's research focuses on industrial organization, game theory, applied theory, organizational economics, behavioral economics, and AI. He has an extensive publication record in prestigious economics journals, frequently collaborating with Andrew Wait. Key publications include Hold-up and Sequential Specific Investments (The RAND Journal of Economics, 2004); Timing of Investments, Hold-up and Total Welfare (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004); Preemption with a Second-Mover Advantage (Games and Economic Behavior, 2021); Collusion with intertemporal price dispersion (The RAND Journal of Economics, 2020, with Nicolas de Roos); Sunk costs, entry and clustering (Economic Theory, 2024, with Alexander Matros and Andrew Wait); Optimal Skill Diversity in Teams (Economic Theory, 2025, with Miaomiao Dong et al.); and the forthcoming You, Me, or We? Co-Productive Principal-Agent Dynamics (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, with Guillaume Roels, Ilia Tsetlin, and Andrew Wait). His work explores market entry dynamics, collusion, incentives, team production, and organizational change, contributing to advancements in economic theory. At the University of Sydney, Smirnov has taught courses including first-year microeconomics, industrial organization, game theory, and contract theory from 2003 to 2025.