Michael Ostrovsky’s research is in the areas of game theory, industrial organization, and finance. Most recently, he has analyzed information aggregation in financial markets, the properties of internet advertising auctions, stability in vertical networks, and voting in shareholder meetings.

Michael Ostrovsky is an Associate Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches Managerial Economics in the first year of the MBA program and Topics in Market Design in the PhD program. His research primarily concerns game-theoretic issues related to mechanism design, industrial organization, and corporate finance. Most recently, he has examined information aggregation in financial markets, the design of Internet advertising auctions, the structure of stable vertical networks, and the forces influencing proxy voting by mutual funds in shareholder meetings.

Michael received his BAS in Mathematics and Economics from Stanford University and his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.