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Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian
game theorist Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...
. He is Professor of
Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at
Cowles Foundation The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics is an economic research institute at Yale University. It was created as the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at Colorado Springs in 1932 by businessman and economist Alfred Cowles. In 1939 ...
,
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
. He did his schooling at the St. Columba's School, Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in
applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...
from
Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
and B.Sc. (with honors in
physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
) from the
University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...
. His research areas of interest are
game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...
and
mathematical economics Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. Often, these applied methods are beyond simple geometry, and may include differential and integral calculus, difference an ...
. He has published, among others, in ''
Econometrica ''Econometrica'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles in many areas of economics, especially econometrics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Econometric Society. The current editor-in-chief is Gui ...
'', ''
Games and Economic Behavior ''Games and Economic Behavior'' (''GEB'') is a journal of game theory published by Elsevier. Founded in 1989, the journal's stated objective is to communicate game-theoretic ideas across theory and applications. It is considered to be the leadi ...
'', ''
Journal of Economic Theory The ''Journal of Economic Theory'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of economic theory. Karl Shell has served as editor-in-chief of the journal since it was established in 1968. Since 2000, he has shared the editor ...
'' and ''
Quarterly Journal of Economics ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan N ...
''. He is a Fellow of ''
The Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...
'' and a member of the council of the ''Game Theory Society''.


Academic positions

From 1975 until 1978, Dubey was an assistant professor in the School of Organization and Management and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. In 1978, he became an associate professor at Yale, a position he held until 1984. In 1979, Dubey was a research fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
. During 1982, he was a senior research fellow at the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute located in Laxenburg, near Vienna, in Austria. Through its research programs and initiatives, the institute conducts policy-o ...
in Austria. In 1984, Dubey became an economics professor at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...
, and taught there for one year. In the following year, he taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Institute for Decision Sciences. In 1986, Dubey entered his current position as the leading professor and co-director for the Center for Game Theory in Economics at the university. Additionally, in 2005, he became a visiting professor at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale.


Selected publications

*"On the Uniqueness of the Shapley Value" (1975) ''International Journal of Game Theory'' Vol. 4, pp. 131–139. *"Trade and Prices in a Closed Economy with Exogenous Uncertainty and Different Levels of Information" (1977) (with M. Shubik) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 45, pp. 1657–1680. *"Some Properties of the Banzhaf Power Index" (1979) (with L.S. Shapley) ''Mathematics of Operations Research'' Vol. 4, pp. 99–131. *"Nash Equilibria of Market Games: Finiteness and Inefficiency" (1980) ''Journal of Economic Theory'' Vol. 22, pp. 363–376. *"Price-Quantity Strategic Market Games" (1982) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 50, pp. 111–126. *"Payoffs in Non-atomic Economies: an Axiomatic Approach" (1984) (with A. Neyman) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 52, pp. 1129–1150. *"Noncooperative General Exchange with a Continuum of Traders" (1994) (with L.S. Shapley) ''Journal of Mathematical Economics'' Vol. 23, pp. 253–293. *"Competitive Pooling: Rothschild-Stiglitz Reconsidered" (2002) (with J. Geanakoplos) ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' Vol. 117, pp. 1529–1570. *"From Nash to Walras via Shapley-Shubik" (2003) (with J. Geanakoplos) ''Journal of Mathematical Economics'' Vol. 39, pp. 391–400. *"Learning with Perfect Information" (2004) (with O. Haimanko) ''Games and Economic Behavior'' Vol. 46, pp. 304–324. *"Default and Punishment in General Equilibrium" (2005) (with J. Geanakoplos & M. Shubik) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 73, pp. 1–37.


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External links


Webpage from ''Stony Brook University''Personal Webpage
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