Christopher Sandmann

Christopher Sandmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research focuses on economic theory, particularly the role of search frictions in matching markets, strategic behavior in oligopolistic environments, and the design of optimal contracts. Prior to LSE, he earned his PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics

Research Interests:

• Analysis of how search frictions shape labor market outcomes and sorting mechanisms
• Design of profit-maximizing contractual strategies in competitive and oligopolistic settings
• Game-theoretic models of higher-order beliefs and their manipulation
• Assortative matching under probabilistic frameworks and Nash bargaining

Teaching:

• EC319: Games and Economic Behaviour
• EC487: Advanced Microeconomics

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines) at LSE.