The Maze
Alexander
Elbittar's Web Page
I
leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Econ Sites Family & Friends México
Welcome! I am from
Caracas, Venezuela. My intellectual
interests are economics (applied game theory, experimental economics and
computational economics) and philosophy (rationality, decision theory and
ethics). I have a passionate interest in academic music (early, baroque and
chamber music) and in books (any kind). Comments and suggestions are welcome: elbittar@itam.mx
Research Papers Published
- On
Determination of Optimal Reserve Price in Auctions with Common Knowledge
about Ranking of Valuations. (With Utku Unver), in Advances in Economic
Design, M. Sertel and S. Koray (eds.), 2003, Springer, Berlin. (pdf version)
- Inconsistencias en la Teoría de la Decisión Intertemporal: Un
enfoque económico, (con Gabriela Calderón y Carlos Lever), en Teoría
Conductual de la Elección: Decisiones que se revierten, Carlos Santoyo y Fernando
Vázquez (comp.), 2004, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de
México.
Current
Research
- Group Decision Making in
Ultimatum Bargaining: A Laboratory Study (with Andrei Gomberg and Laura
Sour) (pdf version)
- Information
Impact of Ranking of Valuation in Bidding Behavior in First Price
Auctions: A Laboratory Study (Working Paper) (pdf version)
- Adaptive
Behavior on Mechanism Design. (Working Paper)
- King Solomon's Dilemma: An
experimental study on implementation. (with
J. Kagel) (Presented in the 2004 Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society,
San Diego, CA, the 1997 Annual Meeting of Economic Science Association,
Tucson-Arizona, and the 1997 International Conference of Game Theory,
SUNY-Stony Brook). (Working Paper)
- Auction
of Shares: A Laboratory Study (Work in progress)
- Please any
suggestion, comment, reference and/or link associated with my research are
welcome. Do not hesitate to contact me at the following e-mail address: elbittar@itam.mx.
- Professional Information
- Dissertation Abstract
- Inspiring
quote for my research.
The economic
problem of society is [...] not merely a problem of how to allocate
"given" resources -if "given" is taken to mean given a
single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these
"data." It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of
resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative
importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem
of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its
totality.
F.A. Hayek, 1945
Teaching
Taking a course in
experimental economics is a little like going to dinner at a cannibal's house. Sometimes
you will be a diner, sometimes a part of dinner, sometimes both.
T.
Bergstrom and J. Miller (Experiments with Economic Principles)
Game Theory and Experimental Economics
(Updated: 8/20/99)
- The Webs Sites in Game
Theory and Experimental Economics
- Conferences in Game
Theory and Experimental Economics
- Conference in Experimental Economics
(ESA)
- Stony Brook Summer Festival on
Game theory
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- Software for Games and
Experiments
- Comlabgames (Marko
Grobelnik, Peter Kese, Robert A. Miller, Vesna Prasnikar)
- Gambit (Richard D. McKelvey)
- Experiments in
Classrooms
- Experimental Economics with Economic
Principles (Ted Bergstrom and John Miller)
- Classroom Expernomics (Greg
Delemeester and John Neral)
- The Prisioners' Dilemma (Alannah
Orrison of Saddleback College)
- Experience from a Course in Game Theory (Ariel Rubinstein)
- Journal of Economics Education
- Books on Game Theory
- Handbook of
Experimental Economics (Ed. John Kagel and Al Roth)
- Experimental Methods: A Primer for
Economists (Daniel Friedman and Shyam Sunder)
- Experimental Economics (Douglas
Davis and Charles Holt)
- Handbook of Game Theory (Ed. Robert J. Aumann and Sergiu
Hart)
- A Course in Game Theory (Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein)
- Games for Business and
Economics (Roy Gardner)
- An Introduction to Game Theory (Martin J. Osborne)
- Microeconomic Theory (Andreu
Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green)
- Advanced Microeconomic Theory (Geoffrey
Alexander Jehle and Phil Reny)
- Co-opetition (Adam
Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff)
- Journals in Game theory
and Experimental Economics
- Experimental Economics (Charles
Holt)
- Games and Economic Behavior (Ehud
Kalai)
- International Journal of Game
Theory (Dov E. Samet and Ronald .M. Harstad)
- Games and Information (EconWPA)
- Experimental Economics (EconWPA)
- Associations of Game
Theory and Experimental Economics
- Economic Science Association
- International Society of
Dynamic Games
- Society for Judgment and
Decision Making
- Autobiographies of Nobel Prize Winners in
Economics (Strongly recommended)
- Kenneth Arrow (Social
Choice and General Equilibrium)
- John Harsanyi (Game
Theory)
- John Nash (Game
Theory)
- Reinhard Selten (Game
Theory and Experimental Economics)
- Robert Lucas
(Macroeconomics Theory)
- Herbert Simon (Organization
Theory
- Group of Reseacher in
Game Theory and Experimental Economics
- Masaki Aoyagi
- Juergen Bracht
- John Duffy
- Ed Hopkins
- John Kagel
- Steven Lehrer
- John Miller
- Jack Ochs
- Utku Unver
- Jim Warnick
- Pages of Game Theory,
Experimental Economics and other links
- Centers for Game Theory
and Laboratories for Experimental Economics
- University of
Pittsburgh Economics Laboratory (John Kagel)
- Experimental Economics Project (R. Selten -
University of Bonn)
- Laboratory for Experimental
Economics and Political Science (Charles Plott -
Caltech)
- Economic Science Laboratory (University
of Arizona)
- Center for Research in
Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making (University
of Amsterdam)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Laboratori d'Economia Experimental (Pompeu Fabra University)
- Learning and Experimental
Economics Projects of Santa Cruz (University of
California at Santa Cruz)
- The Canadian Experimental Economics
Researchers Page
- The University of East Anglia's
Experimental Economics Laboratory
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem's RatioLab (Shmuel Zamir, Gary Bornstein and Eyal
Winter)
- The University of
Manchester's Experimental Research
- The University of Mannheim's Experimental
Laboratory
- McMaster University's
Experimental Economics Laboratory (Stuart Mestelman and
Andrew Muller)
- The University of New Mexico's
Experimental Economics Research Program
- Texas A&M
University's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
- The University of Trento's
Experimental Economics Laboratory
- The University of Wyoming's Experimental
Economics and Applied Game Theory page
- The University of York's
Centre for Experimental Economics (John D. Hey and
Graham Loomes)
- The University of
Zurich's Microeconomics and Experimental Economics Page
Some Econ Sites
- Economics
Information and Other Resources
- Economics Journals
- Economics WPA
- Resources for Economist on the Internet
- Best of the Best Economics
Sites
- Nobel Laureates
- Books
- The Library of Congress
- Webster Dictionary
- Britannica Online
- Venezuela's Economic
Information and Resources
- Institute for Research in
Economics (UCAB)
- Universidad Catolica Andres Bello
- Universidad de Central de Venezuela
- The Economy of Venezuela
- Economic Conferences
- Fundacion Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho
- Econometrics' Programs
- CodEc: Programs for Economics
and Econometrics
- Gauss
- Limdep 7.0
- An Splus Tutorial
- SPlus directory
- Online Computer Manuals
- Organ Transplants
- News
Some Friends & Family Sites
- My Family
- Sonia Di Giannatale (My Wife)
- Gilberto Carrasquero Medina
(My Godson)
- Ivonne Alexandra Ponte (My Niece)
- Friends
- Rafael Mendible Carnegie Mellon University
- Stephane Pallage University
of Quebec-Montreal
- German Rios The World
Bank
- Juan F. Riveros University
of Michigan
- Dilek Aykut University
of Pittsburgh
- Juergen Bracht University
of Pittsburgh
- Guillaume Frechette University
of Pittsburgh
- Steven Lehrer University
of Pittsburgh
- Utku Unver University
of Pittsburgh
- Faculty and Graduate
Students at The University of Pittsburgh
México
Some Web
Tools
- Find Fast
- Home Microsoft
- NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML
- HTML
- Roedy Green's Java Glossary For Novices
Last
revision: September 2000.