Jean-Pierre Benoît
Professor of Economics; Chair, Economics Faculty; Fellow of the British Academy
BA (Yale) PhD (Stanford)
Professor Jean-Pierre Benoît is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a winner of the Best Teacher Award in the EMBA programme. He is an expert in microeconomic theory, industrial organisation, game theory, and law and economics. His research has been published in leading economics, political science and law journals, and encompasses a range of subjects, including auctions, voting theory, dynamic competition, entry deterrence, affirmative action, overconfidence and apparent behavioural biases.
Professor Benoît is currently Chair of the Economics subject Area. Before joining the school, he was Professor of Economics and Professor of Law at New York University.
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- Jean-Pierre Benoît CV
- Game theory
- Auctions
- Law and economics
- Voting
- Social organisations and industrial organisation
2022
Belief Elicitation When More Than Money Matters: Controlling for ‘Control'
Benoit J-P; Dubra J; Romagnoli G
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2022 Vol 14:3 p 837-888
2019
Apparent bias: what does attitude polarization show?
Benoit J-P; Dubra J
International Economic Review 2019 Vol 60:4 p 1675-1703
2017
Investing to cooperate : theory and experiment
Benoit J-P; Galbiati R; Henry E
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2017 Vol 144 p 1-17
2014
Does the better-than-average effect show that people are overconfident? Two experiments
Benoit J-P; Dubra J; Moore D A
Journal of the European Economic Association 2014 Vol 13:2 p 293-329
2013
On the problem of prevention
Benoit J-P; Dubra J
International Economic Review 2013 Vol 54:3 p 787-805
2010
Only a dictatorship is efficient
Benoit JP
Games and Economic Behavior 2010 March Vol 70:2 p 261-270
2008
Nash implementation without no-veto power
Benoit J-P; Ok E A
Games and Economic Behavior 2008 Vol 64:1 p 51-67
On combining implementable social choice rules
Benoit J-P; Ok E; Sanver R
Games and Economic Behavior 2007 Vol 60:1 p 20-30
2006
Information revelation in auctions
Benoit J-P; Dubra J
Games and Economic Behavior 2006 Vol 57:2 p 181-205
Maskin's theorem with limited veto power
Benoit J-P; Ok E
Games and Economic Behavior 2006 Vol 55:2 p 331-339
2004
Why do good cops defend bad cops?
Benoit J-P; Dubra J
International Economic Review 2004 Aug Vol 45:3 p 787-809
2002
Game theoretic analyses of legal rules and institutions
Benoit J-P; Kornhauser L
in Aumann R J and Hart S eds., Handbook of game theory with economic applications. Vol. 3, Elsevier North-Holland, 2002
Strategic manipulation in voting games when lotteries and ties are permitted
Benoit J-P
Journal of Economic Theory 2002 Feb Vol 102:2 p 421-436
2001
Multiple-object auctions with budget constrained bidders
Benoit J-P; Krishna V J
Review of Economic Studies 2001 Jan Vol 68:234 p 155-179
2000
Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem: a simple proof
Benoit J-P
Economics Letters 2000 Dec Vol 69:3 p 319-322
1999
Color blind is not color neutral: testing differences and affirmative action
Benoit J-P
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 1999 Jul Vol 15:2 p 378-400
On the assumption of separable assembly preferences
Benoit J-P; Kornhauser L
Social Choice and Welfare 1999 Vol 16:3 p 429-439
1997
Nucleolus is contested-garment-consistent: a direct proof
Benoit J-P
Journal of Economic Theory 1997 Nov Vol 77:1 p 192-196
1995
Assembly-based preferences, candidate-based procedures and the voting rights act
Benoit J-P; Kornhauser L
Southern California Law Review 1995 Vol 68 p 1503-1544
Crime, punishment and social expenditure
Benoit J-P; Osborne M
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 1995 Vol 151 p 326-347
1994
Social choice in a representative democracy
Benoit J-P; Kornhauser L
American Political Science Review 1994 Mar Vol 88:1 p 185-192
1992
Renegotiation in finitely repeated games
Benoit J-P; Krishna V
Econometrica 1992 Mar Vol 61:2 p 303-323
Scoring reversals: a major league dilemma
Benoit J-P
Social Choice and Welfare 1992 Jun Vol 9:2 p 89-97
1991
Entry deterrence and dynamic competition: the role of capacity reconsidered
Benoit J-P; Krishna V
International Journal of Industrial Organization 1991 Dec Vol 9:4 p 477-495
1988
Non-equilibrium analysis of the finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma
Benoit J-P
Mathematical Social Sciences 1988 Dec Vol 16:3 p 281-287
1987
Dynamic duopoly: prices and quantities
Benoit J-P; Krishna V
Review of Economic Studies 1987 Jan Vol 54:177 p 23-35
Nash equilibria of finitely repeated games
Benoit J-P; Krishna V
International Journal of Game Theory 1987 Sep Vol 16:3 p 197-204
1985
Financially constrained entry in a game with incomplete information
Benoit J-P
Rand Journal of Economics 1985 Winter Vol 15:4 p 490-499
Innovation and imitation in a duopoly
Benoit J-P
Review of Economic Studies 1985 Jan Vol 52:168 p 99-106
2014
A theory of rational attitude polarization
Benoit J-P; Dubra J
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Study how organisations behave under different market structures by exploring the logic and language of microeconomics, focusing on prices, markets, incentives and optimal decision-making. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS CORE COURSE
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Behavioural Economics & Decision Making
Behavioural economics is an emerging field that shows most decision makers are not fully rational, and that their behaviour deviates from normative standards in systematic ways. Biases in judgment can lead to decision errors by managers and consumers alike. This also presents an opportunity, however, for managers, consumers and public policy makers because it is possible to change and improve decisions through behavioural interventions. The course will cover the main behavioural theories and develop students' skills to test and implement behavioural interventions through experimentation. Students will work on projects in collaboration with an external organization. Guest speakers applying behavioural concepts in different settings will feature. Because behavioural principles are applied in diverse settings, the course is suitable to a broad audience. The emphasis on biases and how decisions depart from rationality distinguishes this course from other courses on decision making. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Incentives in Organisations
Understand how incentive regimes affect employee productivity and organisational effectiveness through both psychology and economics. Learn how and why individuals deviate from their usual rational responses to incentives. Examine subjects such as compensation, social exchanges, coordination, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, free-riding, principal-agent models and the implications of asymmetric information and the incompleteness of contracts. The course uses models developed in micro-economics and psychology. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Lima Global Experience
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Santiago Global Experience
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The Economics of a Crisis
This was The Economics of a Pandemic (E607) PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Thinking Strategically
This is a course in game theory and its application to business strategy. It offers an introduction to a selection of the methods and results of modern game theory. Special emphasis is placed on the practical applications of these tools. Many (if not all) business decisions depend upon the actions taken by others in the marketplace, either at the same time or in the future. Such decisions include optimal pricing rules, supply decisions, innovating, and capacity choices. When making a choice in these settings, a business faces a classic interactive decision-making problem: its best move depends on the likely moves of others. To anticipate these moves it must empathetically "walk in the shoes of others" so that it can assess what they might do. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Foundations of Business Research
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Microeconomics II Part II
Microeconomics II, Part II
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Foundations of Business Research