William Thomson Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics August 2015
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William Thomson Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics August 2015 Address: Department of Economics University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 [email protected] Office phone: (585) 275-2236 Departmental phone: (585) 275 5252 Departmental fax: (585) 256-2309 Education: 1972: Dipl^omed'Ingenieur de l'Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France 1976: Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University Employment: 1976-1980: Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor 1980-1983: Department of Economics, Harvard University, Visiting Lecturer 1982 (September): Nagoya City University, Visiting Lecturer 1982-1983: Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Associate Professor 1983 (June): Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Stud- ies, Visiting Fellow 1983-1985: Department of Economics, University of Rochester, Associate Professor 1984 (June): Universit´ed'Aix-Marseille and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Directeur d'Etudes 1985-present: Department of Economics, University of Rochester, Professor 1986 (May): Universit´ede Rennes, France, Visiting Professor 1993 (June): Delta, Paris, France. 1997 (May): Universit´ede Cergy-Pontoise, France, Visiting Professor. 1997 (June): Universit´ede Caen, France, Visiting Professor. 1998 (June): Universit´ede Caen, France, Visiting Professor. 1 1999 (Spring semester): Harvard University, Visiting Professor 1999 (June): Universit´ede Caen, France, Visiting Professor. 2000 (May): Universit´ede Caen, France, Visiting Professor. 2005 (June): Paris School of Economics, France, Visiting Professor. 2013 (Spring semester): Harvard University, Visiting Professor Editorial service: Social Choice and Welfare, Board of Editors, 1983-present. Economics Letters, Board of Editors, 1985-2006. Games and Economic Behavior, Board of Editors, 1988-present. International Journal of Game Theory, Board of Editors, 1992-2003; Editor-in-Chief, 2003-2008; Board of Editors, 2008-2010. Review of Economic Design, Associate Editor, 1993-2004; Board of Edi- tors, 2004-present. Mathematical Social Sciences, Board of Editors, 1994-present. Theory and Decision Library, Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Pro- gramming and Operations Research, Board of Editors, 1994-present. Economic Theory, 2000-2004. Journal of Economic Theory, 2005-2013. Latin American Economic Review, 2013-present. Studies in Choice and Welfare, Board of Editors, 2013-present Other service Society for Social Choice and Welfare, council member. International Game Theory Society, council member. Honors: German Bernacer Lecture, Alicante, 1989. Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected 1990. Condorcet Lecture: keynote address at the V-th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 2000. Koc Prize for best article in Review of Economic Design, 2000. 2001 University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (University of Rochester). Plenary session speaker: Canadian Economic Theory meeting, Montreal, 2003. Plenary session speaker: Midwest Mathematical Economics meeting, Bloom- ington, 2004. 2 Presidential address: VII-th International address of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, 2004. Plenary session speaker: SING 1, Maastricht, June 2005. Society for Social Choice and Welfare, President-Elect, 2002-2004. Society for Social Choice and Welfare, President, 2004-2006. Listed in Who's Who in Economics, (M. Blaug ed). Pareto Lecture: 2005 ASSET Meeting, Crete. Plenary session speaker: XVII-th International Game Theory Conference at Stony Brook, 2006. Keynote speaker: SING 3, Madrid, July 2007. Keynote speaker: COMSOC. Liverpool, September 2008. Plenary session speaker: Second Brazilian Meeting of the Game Theory Society, Sao Paulo, August 2010. Plenary session speaker: Chinese Game Theory Association Inaugural Meeting, Beijing, August 2010. Economic Theory Fellow, elected in 2011. Keynote speaker, JOLATE, Bogot´a,October 2012. Keynote speaker, SING 9, Vigo, July 2013. Keynote speaker, Society for Economic Design, Lund, July 2013. Keynote speaker, 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, June 2014. Conference on the Axiomatics of Resource Allocation, held in the honor of 65th birthday, at the University of Rochester. Conference on Distributive Justice, held in the honor of 65th birthday, at Seoul National University Research grants awarded: NSF Grant No SES 8006482, 1980-1982 Sloan Foundation Grant, (co-investigator) 1980-1982 NSF Grant No. SES 8311249, 1983-1984 NSF Grant No. SES 8511136, 1985-1987 NSF Grant No. SES 8809822, 1988-1990 NSF Grant No. SES 9212557, 1992-1994 NATO Institute, 1996 (for 1997 program). NSF Grant No SBR-9731431, 1998-2000. NSF Grant No SES-0214691, 2002-2004. NSF Grant No SES-07021107, 2007-2009. 3 Theses supervised: Youngsub Chun (1986), Seoul National University, Korea Bhaskar Chakravorti (1987), Bellcore Larry Kranich (1988), Pennsylvania State University Dimitrios Diamantaras (1988), Temple University Koichi Tadenuma (1989), Hitotsubashi University, Japan Toshiaki Suematsu (1989), University of Shizuoka, Japan John Conley (1990), University of Illinois Simon Wilkie (1990), Bellcore Tomas Sj¨ostr¨om(1991), Harvard University Takehito Yamato (1992), Toyo University, Japan Shige Serizawa (1993), Osaka University, Japan Ken-Ichi Shimomura (1993), Kyoto University, Japan Sang-Young Sonn (1994), Korean Research Institute, Korea Sang-Chul Suh (1994), Windsor University, Canada Stephen Ching (1994), City University of Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong Tayfun S¨onmez(1995), University of Michigan Sungwhee Shin (1995), Korea Energy Institute, Korea Tarık Kara (1996), Bilkent University, Turkey James Schummer (1997), Northwestern University (MEDS) Eiichi Miyagawa (1998), Columbia University. Andreas Westermark (1998), University of Uppsala, Sweden Toru Hokari (2000), Kyoto University, Japan Atila Abdulkadiroglu (2000), Northwestern University Ozg¨urKıbrıs (2000), CORE (Belgium), Sabanci University, Turkey Sang-kyu Rhee (2001), Korean Energy Institute, Korea Biung-Ghi Ju (2001), University of Kansas Hyunjun Kim (2001), CORE, Belgium Chun-Hsien Yeh (2002), Academia Sinica, Taiwan Christopher Chambers (2003), Caltech Toyotaka Sakai (2005), Yokohama City University, Japan Onur Kesten (2005), Carnegie-Mellon University Murat Atlamaz (2006), Bates and White Ozgur Yilmaz (2006), Koc University, Turkey Duygu Yengin (2007), University of Adelaide, Australia Diego Dominguez (2007), ITAM, Mexico. C¸a˘gatay Kayı(2007), University of Maastricht, Netherlands. Jorge Garcia (2008), Mexico Central Bank, Mexico 4 Rodrigo Velez (2009), Texas A and M Yoichi Kasajima (2010), Waseda University, Japan Paula Jaramillo (2010), Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Vikram Manjunath (2011), University of Montreal, Canada Azer Abizada (2012), University of Azerbaijan Eun Jeong Heo (2012), Vanderbilt University Ayse Yazici (2012), Durham University, UK Jo Cho (2013), University of Manchester, UK Nanyang Bu (2013), Fudan University, China Karol Szwagrzak (2013), University of Southern Denmark Siwei Chen (2013), Sun Yat-Sen University, China Battal Do˘gan(2014), University of Lausanne, Switzerland Ryan Tierney (2015), University of Montreal, Canada Will Phan (2015), University of Helsinki, Finland External member of dissertation committee: Carmen Bevia (Univer- sity of Alicante, 1993); Thomas Piketty (Delta, 1993); Fran¸coisManiquet (University of Namur, 1994); Pablo Amoros (University of Alicante, 1997); Bernardo Moreno (University of Alicante, 1997); Bettina Klaus (Maastricht University, 1998); Anne van Gellekom (Nijmegen, 2000); Abdurahman Ziad (University of Caen, 2000); Paulo Corte-Real (Harvard University, 2000); Lars Ehlers (Maastricht University, 2001); Sofia Grahn (Uppsala University, 2001); Juan Moreno-Ternero (University of Alicante, 2003); Julio Gonzalez- Diaz (University of Santiago de Compostela, 2005); Ricardo Martinez (Uni- versity of Alicante, 2006); Marieke Quant (Tilburg University, 2006); Mateo Triossi (University Carlos III, 2006); Eve Ramaekers (University of Namur, 2006); Mirjam Groote Schaarsberg (Tilburg University, 2014). 1 Conferences organized 1. Decentralization Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1982. 2. Decentralization Conference, University of Rochester, 1987. 3. The Legacy of Lionel McKenzie, University of Rochester, 1988. 4. Buffalo-Cornell-Rochester theory conference, Rochester coordinator. Or- ganizer when it took place in Rochester. 5. Second International Conference for Social Choice and Welfare, Rochester, 1994. 5 6. NATO Advanced Research Institute \Game theory and resource alloca- tion: the axiomatic method", Stony Brook, 1997. 7. IXth International Game Theory Conference, Stony Brook, 1998. 8. \Axiomatics of Resource Allocation", Wallis Institute mini conference; Rochester, May 2003, 9. \Game Theory and Social Choice", Wallis Institute mini conference; Rochester, April 2004. 10. \Resource Allocation and Game Theory", Wallis Institute mini confer- ence; Rochester, April 2006. 11. \Roth and Sotomayor; twenty years after", (co-organizer), Duke Univer- sity, May 2010. 12. Osaka-Rochester theory mini conference; (co-organizer), University of Rochester, September 2013. 2 Books, Monographs 1. Axiomatic Theory of Bargaining With a Variable Number of Agents (with T. Lensberg), Cambridge University Press, 1989. 2. The Legacy of Lionel McKenzie (conference volume coedited with R. Becker, M. Boldrin and R. Jones), Academic Press, 1993. 3. A Guide for the Young Economist, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 2001, 2003. Revised