Ceesay Muhammed

Research Interests:

• Auctions and auction theory
• Procurement and investment incentives
• Industrial organization and competition policy
• Collusion and bidding rings
• Transport markets and autonomous vehicle fleets

Job Market Paper:

• Investments in First-Price and Second-Price Procurement Auctions
  with Domenico Menicucci and Nicola Doni; under review at the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Publications:

• Secret versus Public Rings in Common Value Auctions
  International Journal of Economic Theory, 22: 63-90, 2026.
• Asymmetric Auctions with Discretely Distributed Valuations
  with Domenico Menicucci and Nicola Doni; B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 25(1): 99-118, 2025.
• Collusion with Not-So-Secret Rings
  Journal of Quantitative Economics, 22(2): 563-570, 2024.

Working Papers and Projects:

• Congestion and the Market Structure of Fleets
  with Federico Boffa and Alberto Iozzi; revise and resubmit at Case Studies on Transport Policy.
• Food Fraud for Horizontally Differentiated Products.
• Competing with Self-Providing Consumers.

Academic Positions:

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Florence, 2023-2025.
• Senior Research Associate, CEIS Tor Vergata, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2022-2023.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2021-2022.
• Visiting Position, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata, July 2025.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, University of Naples Federico II, 2020.
• MSc in Economics and Finance, University of Naples Federico II, 2016.
• BSc in Economics, University of The Gambia, 2014.
• Postgraduate Courses in Mathematics, University of Perugia, 2018.

Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant, Industrial Organization, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2022-2024.
• Lecturer, Advanced Macroeconomics, University of The Gambia, 2020.
• Lecturer, Mathematical Economics, University of The Gambia, 2020.

Selected Awards and Training:

• Full PhD Scholarship, University of Naples Federico II, 2016-2020.
• Outstanding Graduate Award, University of The Gambia Student Union, 2016.
• Merit Scholarship, University of Naples Federico II, 2015.
• Procurement and Sourcing Certificate, Rutgers University Online, 2024.
• Causal Machine Learning, University of Genoa, 2021.

Reading:

Currently Reading:

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
• The African Child - Camara Laye

Read Recently:

• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier
• Ayyuhal Walad - Al-Ghazali
• Christ in Concrete - Pietro di Donato
• Only the Paranoid Survive - Andrew F. Grove
• Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
• Richard Feynman: A Life in Science - John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
• The Laundromat - Jake Bernstein
• Islam and the Destiny of Man - Charles Le Gai Eaton
• How Democracies Die - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife - Al-Ghazali, translated by T.J. Winter
• Ibn Taymiyyah - Jon Hoover
• Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings
• 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
• Animal Farm - George Orwell

Selected Partial Reading:

• The Economics of Collusion (bidder-collusion chapters) - Robert Marshall and Leslie Marx
• The Republic - Plato
• Confessions - Leo Tolstoy
• Introduction to the Sciences of The Quran - Yasir Qadhi
• Reconciling Reason and Revelation in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328): An Analytical Study of Ibn Taymiyya's Dar' al-ta'arud - Yasir Qadhi
• Islam and Slavery - Jonathan Brown
• Orientalism - Edward Said
• On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
• Zad al Ma'ad - Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya