Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian
game theorist
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. He is Professor of
Economics
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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
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,
Yale University
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. He did his schooling at the
St. Columba's School, Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in
applied mathematics
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from
Cornell University
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and B.Sc. (with honors in
physics
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) from the
University of Delhi
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. 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
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. He has published, among others, in ''
Econometrica
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'', ''
Games and Economic Behavior
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'', ''
Journal of Economic Theory
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'' and ''
Quarterly Journal of Economics
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''. He is a Fellow
of ''
The Econometric Society
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'' 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
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in Austria. In 1984, Dubey became an economics professor at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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, 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.
References
External links
Webpage from ''Stony Brook University''Personal Webpage
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1951 births
Living people
Cornell University alumni
Game theorists
Fellows of the Econometric Society
20th-century Indian economists
21st-century American economists
Stony Brook University faculty
Delhi University alumni
St. Columba's School, Delhi alumni
American people of Indian descent
Scientists from Patna