University
of California, San Diego
Economics Department, (0508)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
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E-mail: jsobel at ucsd dot edu
Teaching Information (Current)
Lectures at Paris I, December 2006
Lectures at Paris I, June 2007
Working Papers:
Information
Aggregation and Group Decisions, 2006.
Signaling without
Handicap, 2007
ReGale: Some Memorable
Results, 2008.
Do Markets
Make People Selfish, 2008.
Other-Regarding Preferences
in General Equilibrium (with Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Heidues, Georg
Kirchsteiger, and Frank Riedel), 2008.
Generous Actors, Selfish Actions: Markets with
Other-Regarding Preferences, 2008.
Comments on
Neuroeconomics, 2008.
Publications:
Signaling
Games, in Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, M. Sotomayor
(ed.), Springer, forthcoming.
David Gale, in
The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), MacMillan,
2008.
Selecting
Cheap-Talk Equilibria (with Ying Chen and Navin Kartik), Econometrica,
76 (1), 117-136, 2008
A
Characterization of Intrinsic Reciprocity (with Uzi Segal), International Journal of
Game Theory, 36 (3-4), 571-585, 2007.
Tit for Tat
(with Uzi Segal), Journal of Economic Theory,
136 (1), 197-216, 2007.
For Better or
Forever: Formal versus Informal Enforcement, Journal of Labor
Economics, 24
(2), 271-297, 2006.
A Model of
Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments (with Luis Santos-Pinto), American Economic Review, 95 (5), 1386-1402,
2005.
Interdependent
Preferences and Reciprocity, Journal
of Economic Literature, 93, 392-436, June 2005.
Putting Altruism
in Context, Brain and
Behavioral Science, 25: 275-276, 2003.
Min, Max, and Sum (with
Uzi Segal), Journal of Economic Theory,
106 (1), 126-150, 2002.
Can We Trust Social
Capital? Journal of
Economic Literature, 90, 139-154, March 2002. Correction
On the Dynamics of
Standards, RAND Journal of Economics,
32 (4), 606-623, Winter 2001.
Another View of Trust
and Gossip, in J. Rauch and A. Casella, Networks and Markets, New
York: Russell Sage, 2001.
Manipulation of
Preferences and Relative Utilitarianism, Games
and Economic Behavior, 37 (1), 196-215, October 2001.