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
- Ficciones
Research Teaching
Games & Experiment
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
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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
- Software for Games and
Experiments
- Comlabgames (Marko
Grobelnik, Peter Kese, Robert A. Miller, Vesna Prasnikar)
- Gambit (Richard D. McKelvey)
- Experiments in
Classrooms
- Books on Game Theory
- Journals in Game theory
and Experimental Economics
- Associations of Game
Theory and Experimental Economics
- Autobiographies of Nobel Prize Winners in
Economics (Strongly recommended)
- Group of Reseacher in
Game Theory and Experimental Economics
- Pages of Game Theory,
Experimental Economics and other links
- Centers for Game Theory
and Laboratories for Experimental Economics
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Some Econ Sites
- Economics
Information and Other Resources
- Venezuela's Economic
Information and Resources
- Econometrics' Programs
- Organ Transplants
- News
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Some Friends & Family Sites
- My Family
- Friends
- Faculty and Graduate
Students at The University of Pittsburgh
México
Some Web
Tools
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Last
revision: September 2000.