Professor Jonathan Libgober earns the Raubenheimer Faculty Award

Each year, we invite our USC Dornsife faculty to nominate an outstanding colleague for the Raubenheimer Faculty Award. These awards represent one of USC Dornsife’s highest faculty honors, and celebrate achievement in research, teaching, and service to the university.

Since his arrival at USC in 2019, Libgober has served on numerous committees and been instrumental in key recruiting efforts for the economics department. He is also a dedicated advisor, writing countless letters of recommendation for students.

Libgober’s teaching evaluations are consistently excellent and his class sizes are large, a testament to students’ eagerness to learn from him. He brought course designs over from his time as a PhD student at Harvard, which means USC Dornsife students are now exposed to one of the most advanced microeconomics classes in the world.

Jonathan Libgober is a microeconomic theorist specializing in the economics of information. He is broadly interested in how learning and information arrival shapes economic interactions and guides the design of incentives. Some of his past work has studied dynamic pricing with consumer learning, belief formation with retractions, dynamic verification policies and scientific research.

He has published peer-reviewed papers in three highly regarded journals, with more soon to come. His productivity, and the quality of his research, reflects his stature as an emerging leader in the field of economic theory, says his nomination.