University of California, San Diego
Economics Department, (0508)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
(858) 534-4367
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E-mail:
jsobel at ucsd dot edu
Teaching
Information (Current)
Ecore Summer School, June 2009
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 PalgraveDictionary 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.