Title: Associate Professor      Nationality: Italy and Brazil

Email: mail@inaciobo.com

Website: http://www.inaciobo.com

Research Interests

Microeconomic Theory, Matching Theory, Market Design, Experimental and Behavioral Economics

Education

PhD Economics, Boston College        2014

MA Economics, Boston College         2010

MEng Electric Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo        2008

BA Computer Science, Universidade Estadual de Campinas        2003

Academic positions

Associate Professor, University of Macau        05/2023-present

Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics        04/2021-05/2023

Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of York        09/2019-04/2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center        09/2014-08/2019

Publications

· Inácio Bó, Li Chen (2026). "Designing Heaven’s will: The job assignment in the Chinese imperial civil service." Games and Economic Behavior.

· Li Chen and Rustamdjan Hakimov (2024). "Strategic Responses to Personalized Pricing and Demand for Privacy: An Experiment." Games and Economic Behavior.

· Jörgen Kratz and Makoto Shimoji Generalized (2024)."Cumulative Offer Processes." Review of Economic Design.

· Rodrigo Zeidan, Silvio Luiz de Almeida, and Neil Lewis Jr (2024). "Racial and income-based affirmative action in higher-education admissions: lessons from the Brazilian experience." Journal of Economic Surveys.

· Inácio Bó, Rustamdjan Hakimov (2023). "Pick-an-Object Mechanisms." Management Science.

· Inácio Bó, Rustamdjan Hakimov (2022). "The iterative deferred acceptance mechanism." Games and Economic Behavior.

· Mustafa Oyuz Afacan, Inácio Bó (2022). "Strategy-proof popular mechanisms." Journal of Mathematical Economics.

· Mustafa Oyuz Afacan, Inácio Bó, Bertan Turhan (2022). "Assignment maximization." Journal of Public Economic Theory.

· Azar Abizada, Inácio Bó (2021). "Hiring from a pool of workers." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

· Inácio Bó, Chiu Yu Ko (2021). "Competitive screening and information transmission." Journal of Public Economic Theory.

· Orhan Aygün, Inácio Bó (2021). "College Admission with Multidimensional Privileges: The Brazilian Affirmative Action Case." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

· Inácio Bó, Rustamdjan Hakimov (2020). "Iterative Versus Standard Deferred Acceptance: Experimental Evidence." The Economic Journal.

· Inácio Bó, C.-Philipp Heller (2017). "Strategic Schools under the Boston Mechanism Revisited."Social Choice and Welfare.

· Inácio Bó (2016). "Fair Implementation of Diversity in School Choice." Games and Economic Behavior.

Policy Work

Below is a list of some work conducted in the field of public policy, applying market design techniques to real-life and high-stakes allocation problems:

• · Quota Policies in University Admissions in Brazil

• Brazil’s university quota law was unfairly rejecting quota-eligible high-scorers. The fix Orhan Aygün and I proposed has been, since 2024, the official method used to admit more than 1.2 million students every year.

• · Market Design in Brazil’s Unified Civil Service Exam

• Brazil’s first unified federal civil-service exam (CPNU) had to screen and allocate over 2 million candidates across 173 jobs in 21 federal bodies. I served as the primary designer of the procedures that decided whose written exams would be graded, who would be allocated to which job, and how the waiting list would operate.