Faculty profiles
Jean-Pierre Benoit
BA (Yale) PhD (Stanford)
Paul Geroski Term Chair Professor of Economics
- Subject area:
- Economics
Expertise
Jean-Pierre Benoit can comment on issues pertaining to strategic behaviour, such as arise in, for instance, auctions.
Publications
‘Apparent Overconfidence’ (with J Dubra), Econometrica (Forthcoming); ‘Only a Dictatorship is Efficient’ (with L Kornhauser) Games and Economic Behavior, (2010); ‘Information Revelation in Auctions’ (with J Dubra), Games and Economic Behaviour (2006); ‘Strategic Manipulation in Voting Games When Lotteries and Ties are Permitted’, Journal of Economic Theory (2002); ‘ Multiple-Object Auctions with Budget Constraints’ (with V Krishna), Review of Economic Studies (2001); “Color-Blind is not Color-Neutral: Testing Differences and Affirmative Action” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, 378-400, 1999. ‘Renegotiation in Finitely Repeated Games’ (with V Krishna), Econometrica (1993); ‘Dynamic Duopoly: Prices and Quantities’ (with V Krishna), Review of Economic Studies (1987).
Research interest
Game theory, auctions, law and economics, voting, social organisations and industrial organisation.
Other activities
Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Formerly
Professor of Economics and Professor of Law, New York University.