Vitor Farinha Luz

Vitor Farinha Luz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design, and Public Finance. He has published extensively in leading economics journals, including works on insurance markets, equilibrium characterization, and optimal mechanisms. His research includes papers published in the Review of Economic Studies, Economic Theory, and the Journal of Economic Theory. He also maintains an active research agenda with ongoing projects on dynamic insurance contracts and signal design.

Vitor Farinha Luz is an economist specializing in Economic Theory, Mechanism Design, Game Theory, and Public Finance. His research explores optimal mechanisms, insurance markets, and dynamic contracts, with a focus on robustness and equilibrium characterization. Key contributions include analyzing optimal selling mechanisms under moment conditions, robust mechanisms in insurance, and constrained inefficiency in macroeconomic models. His work addresses issues such as risk classification, adverse selection, and surplus extraction in environments with heterogeneous preferences and information. Farinha Luz's research provides theoretical insights into market design and policy implications in insurance and public finance.