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Curriculum Vitae
Rajiv Vohra
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), 1983, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Advisors: M. Ali Khan, Bruce Hamilton, Peter Newman.
M.A. (Economics), 1981, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
MA (Economics), 1979, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.
B.A. (Economics Hons.), 1977, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India.
Current Position
Professor of Economics, Brown University, July 1989 -
Other Positions
Morgenstern Visiting Professor of Economic Theory, New York University,
Fall 2001.
Fulbright Research Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, 1995-1996.
Chairman, Department of Economics, Brown University, July 1991 - June 1995.
Visiting Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, August 1987 - July
1988.
Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University, January 1987 - June 1989.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University, July 1983 - December 1986.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1994 -
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2001 -
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 2004 Econometric Society North American Summer
Meetings, Brown University.
Co-Organizer, 2001 NSF-CEME General Equilibrium Conference, Brown University.
Organizer, 1994 NSF-CEME General Equilibrium Conference, Brown University.
Academic Honors
Junior Rosenthal Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1982-1983.
C. Richard Martin Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
Johns Hopkins University Fellowship, 1979-1982.
Gold Medal, University of Delhi (MA), 1979.
K.C. Nag Economics Prize, University of Delhi (MA), 1979.
Center for Advanced Studies Scholarship,
(Government of India), 1977-1979.
K.C. Nag Economics Prize, St. Stephen's College, 1976.
Grants
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-0133113, Cooperation and Incentives
in Models with Asymmetric Information, (Brown University) 2002-2004.
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-9414142,Binding Agreements, (Brown
University) 1994-1997.
National Science Foundation Grants, No. SES-8605630 and No. SES-8646400, Theory
of Resource Allocation in Nonclassical Environments, (Brown University) 1986-1988.
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-8410229, Theory of Resource Allocation
with Increasing Returns and Public Goods, (Brown University) 1984-1986.
Richard B. Salomon Research Award, Brown University, 2001.
Richard B. Salomon Research Award, Brown University, 1998.
Refereed Journal Articles
- The
Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in the Absence of Wealth Effects, with
Françoise Forges and Jean-François Mertens, Econometrica,
70, 1865-1892 (2002).
- Incentives
and the Core of an Exchange Economy: A Survey, with Françoise Forges
and Enrico Minelli, Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming.
- Implementing
the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set, with Roberto Serrano, Investigaciones
Economicas, forthcoming.
- Bargaining
and Bargaining Sets, with Roberto Serrano, Games and Economic Behavior,
39, 292-308 (2002).
- A
Simple Model of Coalitional Bidding, with In-Koo Cho and Kevin Jewell,
Economic Theory, 19, 435-457 (2002).
- Coalitional
Power and Public Goods, with Debraj Ray, Journal of Political Economy,
109, 1355-1384 (2001).
- On
the Failure of Core Convergence in Economies with Asymmetric Information,
with Roberto Serrano and Oscar Volij, Econometrica, 69, 1685-1696 (2001).
- Some
Limitations of Virtual Bayesian Implementation, with Roberto Serrano,
Econometrica, 69, 785-792 (2001).
- Efficiency
in an Economy with Fixed Costs, with Andrea Dall'Olio, Journal of Public
Economic Theory, 3, 185-201 (2001).
- Intersecting
Balanced Families of Sets, with Adam Idzik and Gyula O.H. Katona, Journal
of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 93, 2, 281-291 (2001).
- Incomplete
Information, Incentive Compatibility and the Core, Journal of Economic
Theory, 86, 123-147 (1999).
- A
Theory of Endogenous Coalition Structures, with Debraj Ray, Games
and Economic Behavior, 26, 286-336 (1999).
- The Supremum Argument in the
New Approach to the Existence of Equilibrium in Vector Lattices, with M. Ali.
Khan and Rabee Tourky, Economics Letters, 63, 61-65 (1999).
- Non-Cooperative
Implementation of the Core, with Roberto Serrano, Social Choice and
Welfare, 14, 513-525, (1997).
- Equilibrium
Binding Agreements, with Debraj Ray, Journal of Economic Theory,
73, 30--78 (1997).
- Nash Implementation through Elementary
Mechanisms in Economic Environments, with Bhaskar Dutta and Arunava Sen, Economic
Design, 1, 173-203 (1995). Awarded the Koc Prize for the best paper of
the year in Economic Design.
- A Characterization of Egalitarian
Equivalence, with Bhaskar Dutta, Economic Theory, 3, 465-479 (1993)
.
- Equity and Efficiency in Non-Convex
Economies, Social Choice and Welfare, 9, 185-202 (1992).
- Marginal
Cost Pricing under Bounded Marginal Returns (jstor), Econometrica,
60, 859-876 (1992).
- An Existence Theorem for a Bargaining
Set, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 20, 19-34 (1991).
- On Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem,
the K-K-M-S Theorem and the Core of a Balanced Game, with Lloyd Shapley, Economic
Theory, 1, 107-116 (1991).
- On
the Inefficiency of Two Part Tariffs (jstor), Review of Economic Studies,
57, 415-438 (1990) .
- A Consistent Bargaining Set,
with Bhaskar Dutta, Debraj Ray and Kunal Sengupta, Journal of Economic
Theory, 49, 93-112 (1989).
- On the Approximate Decentralization
of Pareto Optimal Allocations in Locally Convex Spaces, with M. Ali
Khan, Journal of Approximation Theory, 52, 149-161(1988).
- Optimal Regulation under Fixed
Rules for Income Distribution, Journal of Economic Theory, 45, 65-84
(1988).
- Pareto Optimal Allocations of
Non-Convex Economies in Locally Convex Spaces, with M. Ali Khan, Journal
of Nonlinear Analysis, 12, 943-950 (1988).
- On the Existence of Equilibria
in Economies with Increasing Returns, Journal of Mathematical Economics,
17, 179-192 (1988).
- An
Extension of the Second Welfare Theorem to Economies with Non-Convexities
and Public Goods (jstor), with M. Ali Khan, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, 102, 223-241 (1987).
- On Sufficient Conditions for
the Sum of Two Weak * Closed Sets to be Weak * Closed, with M. Ali Khan,
Archiv der Mathematik, 48, 328-320 (1987).
- Local Public Goods as Indivisible
Commodities", Regional Science and Urban Economics, 17, 191-208 (1987).
- On the Existence of Lindahl-Hotelling
Equilibria, with M. Ali Khan, Journal of Public Economics, 34, 143-158
(1987).
- A General Theorem on the Existence
of Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibrium, with Donald J. Brown, Geoffrey
M. Heal and M. Ali Khan, Journal of Economic Theory, 38, 371-379 (1986).
- On the Existence of Lindahl Equilibria
in Economies with a Measure Space of Non-Transitive Consumers, with
M. Ali Khan, Journal of Economic Theory, 36, 319-332 (1985).
- Local Public Goods and Average
Cost Pricing, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 13, 51-67 (1984).
- Equilibrium in Abstract Economies
without Ordered Preferences and with a Measure Space of Agents, with
M. Ali Khan, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 13, 133-142 (1984).
- The Aggregate Production Function
of an Industry with Generalized Leontief Cost Functions at the Micro Level,
Economics Letters, 8, 227-233 (1981).
Papers in Books
- Coalitional Non-Cooperative Approaches
to Cooperation, in Cooperation: Game Theoretic Approaches, NATO ASI
Series F, Vol. 155, Eds. S. Hart and A. Mas-Colell, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
(1997).
- Bargaining Sets, in Game-Theoretic
Methods in General Equilibrium Analysis, ed., J-F Mertens and S. Sorin,
NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994).
- Efficient Resource Allocation
Under Increasing Returns, in Welfare Economics and India, ed., B. Dutta,
Oxford University Press, (1994).
- On the Existence of a Proportional
Bargaining Set, in Fixed Point Theory and Applications, (1991), eds.,
MA Thera and J-B Baillon, Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, Longman.
- Planning, in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate
and P. Newman ed. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and
Doctrine, New York, Stockton Press, (1987).
Unpublished Papers
- A
Characterization of Virtual Bayesian Implementation, with Roberto Serrano,
Working Paper No. 2002-11, Department of Economics, Brown University.
- Incomplete
Information, Credibility and the Core, with Bhaskar Dutta, Working Paper
No. 2001-02, Department of Economics, Brown University.
- Type
Diversity and Virtual Bayesian Implementation, with Roberto Serrano, Working
Paper No. 00-16, Department of Economics, Brown University.
Brown University Committees
Task Force on Faculty Governance, 2001 -
Academic Priorities Subcommittee, 1998 - 2001.
Provost Search Committee, 1999.
Task Force on Academic Resources and Organization, 1996.
Ad-Hoc Committee on Faculty Retirement, 1996.
Provost Search Committee, 1994-95.
Department Chairs Agenda Committee, 1992-1995.
Executive Committee and Faculty Advisory Board, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University, 1994-1995.
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees
Younghwan In (2001), Andrea Dall'Olio (2000), Max
Blouin (1999), Darin Lee (1998), Koichiro Kamada (1997), Arindam Mitra (1994),
Kannan Rajagopalan (1990), Ajit Ranade (1990).
Recent Invited Lectures
2001-02: University of British Columbia, 2002 Woodward Summer Workshop.
2000-01: New York University, Stanford University, University of California,
Berkeley, Boston College.
1999-00: University of Cergy-Pontoise, Southern Methodist University.
1998-99: University of Pennsylvania, Southern Methodist University, Institute
Henri Poincare, Paris.
1997-98: Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Indiana University-Purdue
University, Johns Hopkins University. 1996-97: Boston University, NSF-NBER General
Equilibrium Conference, Yale University, New York University, Princeton University,
University of Bielefeld.
1995-96: Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stanford University.
1994-95: State University of New York, Stony Brook, NATO ASI Conference, Stanford
Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stanford University.
1993-94: Duke University, Princeton University.
1992-93: Delhi School of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute.
1991:92: Cornell University, NSF-NBER Conference on Decentralization, State
University of New York, Stony Brook, NATO Game Theory Conference, Stanford University,
SITE Stanford University, University of Bielefeld, University of Alicante.
1990-91: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, University
of Rochester, Columbia University.
1989-90: University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San
Diego, Harvard University, Yale University, Ohio State University.
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