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David Schmeidler, Professor David Schmeidler, Professor List of Publications and Discussion Papers: Articles in Journals David Schmeidler, Competitive equilibria in markets with a continuum of traders and incomplete preferences, Econometrica, Vol. 37, 578-86 (1969). David Schmeidler, The nucleolus of a characteristic function game, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 17, 1163-70 (1969). David Schmeidler, Fatou's Lemma in several dimensions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 24, 300-6 (1970). David Schmeidler, A condition for the completeness of partial preference relations, Econometrica, Vol. 39, 403-4 (1971). David Schmeidler, Cores of exact games, I, J. Math. Anal. and Appl., Vol. 40, 214- 25 (1972). David Schmeidler, On set correspondences into uniformly convex Banach spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 34, 97-101(1972). David Schmeidler, A remark on the core of an atomless economy, Econometrica, Vol. 40, 579-80 (1972). David Schmeidler and Karl Vind, Fair net trades, Econometrica, Vol. 40, 637-42 (1972). Jaques Dreze, Joan Gabszewicz, David Schmeidler and Karl Vind, Cores and prices in an exchange economy with an atomless sector, Econometrica, Vol. 40, 1091-108 (1972). David Schmeidler, Equilibrium points of non-atomic games, Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 7, 295-301 (1973). Werner Hildenbrand, David Schmeidler and Shmuel Zamir, Existence of approximate equilibria and cores, Econometrica, Vol. 41, 1159-66 (1973). Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, A difficulty in the concept of fairness, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 41, 441-3 (1974). Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, Competitive analysis under complete ignorance, International Economic Review, Vol. 16, 246-57 (1975). Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, Social contract theory and ordinal distributive equity, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 5, 261-8 (1976). Ehud Kalai, Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, Collective choice correspondences as admissible outcomes of social bargaining processes, Econometrica, Vol. 44, 233-40 (1976). Edi Karni and David Schmeidler, Independence of non-feasible alternatives and independence of non-optimal alternatives, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 12, 488- 93 (1976). Ehud Kalai and David Schmeidler, An admissible set occurring in various bargaining situations, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 14, 902-11 (1977). Ehud Kalai and David Schmeidler, Aggregation procedure for cardinal preferences: A formulation and proof of Samuelson's Impossibility Conjecture, Econometrica, Vol. 45, 1431-8 (1977). Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler, Approximate efficiency of non- Walrasian Nash equilibria, Econometrica, Vol. 46, 127-35 (1978). Gerald Jaynes, Masahiro Okuno and David Schmeidler, Efficiency in an atomless economy with Fiat money, International Economic Review, Vol. 19, 149-56 (1978). Leonid Hurwicz and David Schmeidler, Construction of outcome functions guaranteeing existence and Pareto optimality of Nash equilibria, Econometrica, Vol. 46, 1447-74 (1978). Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, Decentralization and income distribution in socialist economies, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 16, 257-64 (1978). Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler, Egalitarian equivalent allocations: A new concept of economic equity, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 92, 671-87 (1978). David Schmeidler, A bibliographical note on a theorem of Hardy, Littlewood and Polya , Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 20, 125-8 (1979). David Schmeidler, Walrasian analysis via strategic outcome functions , Econometrica, Vol. 48, 1585-93 (1980). Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler, Approximate Walrasian equilibria and nearby economies, International Economic Review, Vol. 22, 105-11 (1981). David Schmeidler, A condition guaranteeing that the Nash allocation is Walrasian , Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 28, 376-8 (1981). Edi Karni, David Schmeidler and Karl Vind, On state dependent preferences and subjective probabilities, Econometrica, Vol. 51, 1021-31 (1983). Edi Karni and David Schmeidler, Self-preservation as a foundation of rational behavior under risk, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 7, 71-81 (1986) David Schmeidler, Integral representation without additivity , Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 97, 255-61 (1986). Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler, Implementation in differential information economies, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 39, 14-32 (1986). Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler, Strategic behavior and a notion of ex ante efficiency in a voting model, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 3, 37-49 (1986). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Information dependent games: Can common sense be common knowledge?, Economics Letters, Vol. 27, 215-21 (1988). Sergiu Hart and David Schmeidler, Existence of correlated equilibria, Math. of O.R., Vol. 14, 18-25 (1989). David Schmeidler, Subjective probability and expected utility without additivity , Econometrica, Vol. 57, 571-87 (1989). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Maximin expected utility with a non-unique prior, J. of Math. Economics, Vol. 18, 141-53 (1989). Edi Karni and David Schmeidler, Fixed preferences and changing tastes, American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Vol. 80, 262-7 (1990). Edi Karni and David Schmeidler, Atemporal dynamic consistency and expected utility theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 54, 401-8 (1991). Mark Machina and David Schmeidler, A more robust definition of subjective probability, Econometrica, Vol. 60, 745-80 (1992). Edi Karni and David Schmeidler, On the uniqueness of subjective probability, Economic Theory, Vol.3, 267-77 (1993). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Updating ambiguous beliefs, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 59, 33-49 (1993). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Infinite histories and steady orbits in repeated games, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 6, 370-99 (1994). Sergiu Hart, Salvatore Modica and David Schmeidler, A Neo2Bayesian foundation of the maxmin value for two-person zero-sum games, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 23, 347-58 (1994). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Additive representations of non-additive measures and the Choquet integral, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 51, 43-65 (1994). David Schmeidler and Yair Tauman, Incentive-compatible cost allocation schemes, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 63,189-207 (1994). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Canonical representations of set- functions, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 20, 197-212 (1995). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Case-based decision theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 110, 605-39 (1995). Mark Machina and David Schmeidler, Bayes without Bernoulli: Conditions for probabilistically sophisticated choice, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 67, 106-28 (1995). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Case-based optimization, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 15, 1-26 (1996). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Act-similarity in case-based decision theory, Economic Theory, Vol. 9, 47-61 (1997). Elchanan Ben-Porath. Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Social welfare under uncertainty, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 75, 194-204 (1997). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Cumulative utility consumer theory (previous title: Case-based consumer theory), International Economic Review, Vol. 38, 737-61 (1997). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Case-based knowledge and induction, IEEE SMC Transactions Part A, Vol. 30, 85-95 (2000). Michèle Cohen, Itzhak Gilboa, Jean-Yves Jaffray and David Schmeidler, An experimental study of updating ambiguous beliefs, Risk, Decision and Policy, Vol. 5, 123 – 33, (2000). Also appeared in theProceedings of ISIPTA99. Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, A cognitive model of individual well- being, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 18, 269 – 88 (2001). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Reaction to price changes and aspiration level adjustments, Review of Economic Design, Vol. 6, 215 – 23 (2001). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Cognitive foundations of probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 27, 68 – 81 (2002). Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler and Peter Wakker, Utility in case-based decision theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 105, 483 – 502 (2002). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Inductive inference: An axiomatic approach, Econometrica, Vol. 71, 1-26 (2003). Dov Samet and David Schmeidler, Between liberalism and democracy, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 110, 213 – 33 (2003). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, A derivation of expected utility maximization in the context of a game, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 44, 172 – 82 (2003). Dov Samet, Iddo Samet and David Schmeidler, One observation behind two- envelope puzzles, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 111, 347 – 51 (2004). Itzhak Gilboa, Dov Samet and David Schmeidler, Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112, 932-8 (2004). Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Subjective distributions, Theory and Decision , Vol. 56, 345-57 (2004). Antoine Billot, Itzhak Gilboa, Dov Samet and David Schmeidler, Probabilities as Similarity-Weighted Frequencies , Econometrica, Vol. 73, 1125-36 (2005). Enriqueta Aragones, Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler, Fact Free Learning , American Economic Review, Vol 95, 1355-68, (2005). Itzhak Gilboa, Offer Lieberman and David Schmeidler, Empirical Similarity , Review of Economics and Statistics,Vol. 88, 433-44 (2006). Antoine Billot, Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Axiomatization of an Exponential Similarity Function
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