Members
The Vanderbilt University node consists of several members of the Department
of Economics, all with interests in game theoretic approaches to the study
of coalitions, networks, and more generally, the effect of group activities
on socio-economic outcomes. Of particular interest to the Vanderbilt team
are questions of the effects of group activities in models of trade, industrial
organization, law and economics, inequality, social choice and welfare,
and public economics.
VANDERBILT Local Research Team
Myrna Wooders (local coordinator)
Professor of Economics
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/Wooders/
Recent Publications:
“The partnered core of a game with side payments” (with P. Reny and E. Winter), Social Choice and Welfare: Volume 39, Issue 2 (2012), 521-536.
“The theory of clubs and competitive coalitions,” Annual Review of Economics, edited by K. Arrow and T. Bresnahan, September 2012, Vol 4595-627.
“Small improving coalitions and small group effectiveness,” International Journal of Economic Theory.February 2013
“Share equilibrium in economies with local public goods” (with A. van den Nouweland), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 47 (3) May 2011, pp. 376-381
“Decentralized job matching,” (with G. Haeringer), International Journal of Game Theory, International Journal of Game Theory Volume 40, Number 1 (2011), 1-28, DOI: 10.1007/s00182-009-0218-x
Research Fields: public economics
Eric Bond
Professor of Economics
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/bond.html
Recent Publications:
"Gradualism in Trade Agreements between Asymmetric Countries "
(with Jee-Hyeong Park ), Review of Economic Studies , April 2002,
379- 406.
" Factor Accumulation and Trade: A Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin
Model with Physical and Human Capital Accumulation" (with Kathleen
Trask and Ping Wang), International Economic Review , August, 2003.
"Free Trade Areas" (with Costas Syropoulos and Ray Riezman),
Journal of International Economics , October 2004, 1-28.
"Trade Costs and Multimarket Collusion," (with Costas Syropoulos),
Rand Journal, Winter, 2008, 1080-1104 .
"Paths of Pareto Improving Trade Agreements", Economic
Theory, forthcoming.
Research Fields: Trade Theory, Applied Microeconomic Theory
Andrew F. Daughety
Professor of Economics & Professor of Law
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=163
Recent Publications:
“A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement,” (with J. Reinganum), The Rand Journal of Economics, 42(3), Fall 2011, pp. 471-494.
“Settlement,” (with J. Reinganum), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2nd Ed.) Chapter 15 of Vol. 8 – Procedural Law and Economics, edited by Chris William Sanchirico, Edward Elgar Publishing Co., Cheltenham, U.K., 2012, pp. 386-471.
“Economic Analysis of Products Liability: Theory,” (with J. Reinganum), to appear as Chapter 4 in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, edited by Jennifer Arlen, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing Co.
“Search, Bargaining, and Signaling in the Market for Legal Services,” (with J. Reinganum), The Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
“Cumulative Harm and Resilient Liability Rules for Product Markets,” (with J. Reinganum), The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming (available on the web via Advance Access).
Research Fields: Industrial Organization. Law & Economics, Microeconomics
Jennifer Reinganum
Professor of Economics & Professor of Law
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/reinganum.html
Recent Publications:
Imperfect Competition and Quality Signaling, with Andrew F. Daughety,
Rand Journal of Economics 39 (2008), 163-183.
Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling,
with Andrew. F. Daughety, Rand Journal of Economics 39 (2008),
973-989.
Hidden Talents: Entrepreneurship and Pareto-Improving Private Information,
with Andrew F. Daughety), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy,
forthcoming.
Population-Based Liability Determination, Mass Torts, and the Incentives
for Suit, Settlement, and Trial, with Andrew F. Daughety, The Journal
of Law, Economics, & Organization, forthcoming.
Research Fields: Industrial Organization, Law & Economics
Quan Wen
Professor of Economics
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/wen.html
Recent Publications:
“Competitive Prices as Optimal Cartel Prices” (with Harold Houba and Evgenia Motchenkova),Economics Letters, Vol. 114, No. 1 (2012), 39-42
“Extreme Equilibria in the Negotiation Model with Different Time Preferences” (with Harold Houba),Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 73 (2011), 507-516.
“A Multi-Agent Bilateral Bargaining Model with Endogenous Protocol” (with Sang-Chul Suh),Economic Theory, Volume 40, Number 2 (August 2009), 203-226.
“On Striking for a Bargain between Two Completely Informed Agents" (with Harold Houba),Economic Theory, Volume 37, Number 2 (December 2008), 509-519.
“Subgame Perfect Implementation of Stable Matchings in Marriage Problems (with Sang-Chul Suh),Social Choice and Welfares, Volume 31, Number 1 (June 2008), 163-174.
Research Fields: Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory
John Weymark
Professor of Economics
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/weymark-j.html
Recent Publications:
"Extensive Social Choice and the Measurement of Group Fitness in Biological Hierarchies"
(with Walter Bossert and Chloe X. Qi), Biology and Philosophy, 2013, Vol. 28, No. 1, January, pp. 75--98.
"Inequality and Risk" (with Thibault Gajdos),Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, Vol. 147, No. 4, July, pp. 1313--1330.
"Dominant Strategy Implementation with a Convex Product Set of Valuations" (with Katherine
Cuff, Sunghoon Hong, Jesse A Schwartz, and Quan Wen), Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, Vol. 39, Nos. 1--2, July, pp. 567--597.
"How Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes Change when the Distribution of the Population Changes''
(with Craig Brett), Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95, Nos. 11--12, December, pp. 1239--1247.
Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles and John A. Weymark, eds., Social Ethics and Normative
Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm, Springer: Berlin and Heidelberg, 2011.
Research Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Social Choice, Public
Economics
