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February 2011

Forthcoming publications:

• Reiss, P, Kirchkamp, O,: Out -of-equilibrium bids in auctions - Wrong expectations or wrong bids?, Economic Journal, forthcoming
• Mengel, F, Grimm, V,: Let me sleep on it: Delay reduces Rejection Rates in Ultimatum Games, Economics Letters, forthcoming
• Mengel, F, Grimm, V,: Matching Technology and Choice of Institutions in a Prisoner's dilemma, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming
• Saran, R,: Menu-Dependent Preferences and Revelation Principle, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming

January 2011

Award winners 2010
During the Tapas Christmas Party the SBE Board granted the Research, Education, Media and Excellence in Service awards.
Prof. A. Riedl of the department of Ecomomics, was the winner of the Excellent Fellow Award.

December 2010

Forthcoming publications:

• Mengel, F, Peeters, R,: Strategic behavior in repeated voluntary contribution experiments, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
• Mengel, F, Fosco, C,: Cooperation through Imitation and Exclusion in Networks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming
• Bosmans, K, Lauwers, L,: Lorenz comparisons of nine rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims, International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming

October 2010

Forthcoming publications:

• Saran, R: Bilateral Trading with Naive Traders, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming

September 2010

Forthcoming publications:

• Klaus, B, Bochet, O, Walzl, M,: A Dynamic Recontracting Process for Multiple-Type Housing Markets, Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming
• Haake,C.J., Klaus, B,: Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples, Theory and Decision, 69, 537-554
• Klaus, B, Klijn, F,: Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians, Social Choice and Welfare, 35, 647-667
• Klaus, B, Nichifor, A,: Consistency for One-Sided Assignment Problems, Social Choice and Welfare, 35, 415-433
• Bosmans, K, Cowell, F.A.,: The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures, Economics Letters, forthcoming
• Leufkens, K, Peeters, R, Vermeulen, D,: Sequential Auctions with Synergies: The Paradox of Positive Synergies, Economics Letters, forthcoming
• Kimbrough, E,: Heuristic Learning and the Discovery of Specialization and Exchange, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, forthcoming
• Kimbrough, E,: Learning to Respect Property by Refashioning Theft into Trade, Experimental Economics, forthcoming

August 2010

Forthcoming publications:

• Klaus, B, Klijn F.,  Walzl M,: Farsighted Stability for Housing Markets, Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming
• Klaus, B,: Competition and Resource Sensitivity in Marriage and Roommates Markets, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming
• Bosmans, K, Esposito, L, Lambert, P.J.,: New Perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming
• Britz, V, Herings, P.J.J., Predtetchinski, A,: Non-cooperative Support for the Asymmetric Nash Bargaining Solution, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Grigorieva, E, Herings, P.J.J., Müller, R, Vermeulen, D,: On the Fastest Vickrey Algorithm, Algorithmica, forthcoming
• Habis, H, Herings, P.J.J.,: A Note on the Weak Sequential Core of Dynamic TU Games, International Game Theory Review, forthcoming
• Herings, P.J.J., Peeters, R, Yang, M,: Competition against peer-to-peer networks. Information Economics & Policy, forthcoming

Succesfull results in NWO Open Competion
Kristof Bosmans (together with Ton Storcken and Burak Can) and Arno Riedl (together with Elena Cettolin) both received an NWO Free Competion grant for the PhD projects "Ideological distance and democratic decision making" and "The role of uncertainty for fairness perception and revealed social preferences", respectively.

New Colleagues
Morimitsu Kurino (PhD Pittsburgh), Erik K. Kimbrough (PhD George Mason), and Jan Vandekerckhove (PhD Leuven) have joined /are joining us July 1, September 1, and October 1, respectively.

New PhD Students
Christine Gutekunst, Fortuna Casoria, and Xinyu Li are joining us September 1 and Zsombor Méder is joining us October 1.

May 2010

Arno Riedl appeared in Limburgs Dagblad on  May 29, 2010, "Stressbestrijding bij de homo economicus". Read article (in Dutch).

Forthcoming publications:

• Riedl, A,: Behavioral and Experimental Economics Do Inform Public Policy, Finanzarchiv/Public Finance Review, forthcoming
• Klaus, B, Nichifor,A,: Consistency in One-Sided Assignment Problems, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming
• Klaus, B, Klijn, F, Walzl, M,: Stochastic Stability for Roommate Markets, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Klaus, B, Klijn, F,: Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming

April 2010

March 2010

• Tsakas, E,: Aggregate Information, Common Knowledge and Agreeing not to Bet, International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming
• Vendrik, M, Schwieren, C,: Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination, Journal of Economics, Volume 99, Issue 2 (2010), Page 141.

January 2010

Forthcoming publications:

• Gneezy, U, Rustichini, A, Vostroknutov, A,: Experience and Insight in the Race Game, Journal of Economic Behavior, forthcoming
• Kayi, C, Ramaekers, E,: Characterizations of Pareto-efficient, Fair, and Strategy-proof Allocation Rules in Queueing Problems, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming
• Leufkens, K, Peeters, R,: Price dynamics and collusion under short-run price commitments, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming
• Ilkilic, R,: Network of Common Property Resources, Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Reiss, P, Schöndube, J,R,: First-price Equilibrium and Revenue Equivalence in a Sequential Procurement Auction Model, Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Tsakas, E,: Aggregate Information, Common Knowledge, and Agreeing not to bet, International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming
• Herings, P.J.J., and Predtetchinski, A,: One-dimensional Bargaining with Markov Recognition Probabilities, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming

September 2009

Forthcoming publications:

• Brandts, J, Riedl, A, van Winden, F,: Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
• Can, B, Sanver, R: Stereotype formation as trait aggregation, Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 2, forthcoming

August 2009

Forthcoming publications:  

• Beine, M, Cosma, A, Vermeulen R: The Dark Side of Global Integration: Increasing Tail Dependence, Journal of Banking & Finance, forthcoming

June 2009

Forthcoming publications:  

• Dohmen, T, Falk, A, Huffman, D, Sunde, U, Schupp, J, Wagner, G: Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences,  Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
• Dohmen, T, Falk, A, Huffman, D, Marklein, F, Sunde, U: Biased Probability Judgement: Representative Evidence for Pervasiveness and Economic Outcomes,Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming
• Dohmen, T, Falk, A, Huffman, D, Sunde U: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?The American Economic Review, forthcoming
• Reiss, P, Schöndube, J: First-price equilibrium and revenue equivalence in a sequential procurement auction model, Economic Theory, forthcoming

March 2009

Forthcoming publications:

• Klaus, B, Walzl, M: Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming
• Sieben, I, de Grip, A, Longen, J, Sørensen, O: Technology, selection, and training in call centers, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, forthcoming
• Goerlich, D & de Grip, A: The effectiveness of more advanced human resource systems in small firms, International Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming
• Nelen, A, & de Grip, A: Why do part-time workers invest less in human capital than full-timers? Labour, forthcoming

February 2009

Forthcoming publications:

• Candelon B, Beine M: Liberalization and stock market Co-movement between emerging economies, Quantitative Finance, forthcoming
• Candelon B, Vermeulen R, Muysken J: Fiscal policy and monetary integration in Europe: an update, Oxford Economic Papers, forthoming.
• Candelon B, Bodart V: Evidence of contagion and interdependence using a frequency domain framework, Emerging Markets Review, forthcoming.
• Candelon, B, Bruinshoofd, A, Raabe K: Banking sector strength and the transmission of currency crises, Open Economies Review, forthcoming

2008 IJET Lionel W. McKenzie Prize:

Jean-Jacques Herings has been awarded the 2008 IJET Lionel W. McKenzie Prize for his publication "Kinky Perceived Demand Curves and Keynes-Negishi Equilibria" in the International Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 4(2), June 2008.

January 2009

Forthcoming publications

• Kóczy, L.Á.: Sequential Coalition Formation and the Core in the Presence of Externalities, Games and Ecoomic Behavior, forthcoming.
• Dohmen T, Jaeger D, Falk A, Huffman D, Sunde U, Bonin H: Direct evidence on risk attitudes and migration, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
• Kóczy, L.Á., Strobel, M.: The Invariant Method can be Manipulated, Scientometrics, forthcoming.
• Buligescu, B, De Crombrugghe, D., Mentesoglu, G., Montizaan, R.: Panel Estimates of the Wage Penalty for Maternal Leave, Oxford Economics Papers, forthcoming.
• Can, B., Erdamar, B., Sanver, M.R.: Expected Utility Consistent Extensions of Preferences, Theory and Decision, forthcoming.
• Mengel, F.: Conformism and Cooperation in a Local Interaction Model, Journal of Evolutionoray Economics, forthcoming.
• Mengel F., Grimm, V.: Cooperation in Viscous Popultations - Experimental Evidence, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.

New seminar series:

The Department of Economics (section AE1) and the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience launch jointly organized biweekly Neuroeconomics Meetings. Participants present overviews of recent research in Neuroeconomics. See http://www.econ.umn.edu/~aevk/nemeeting.htm for details.

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