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Jeffrey C. Ely

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HOW TO CONTACT ME

Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

My office is Room 3203 in Arthur Andersen Hall

Telephone: 847-491-8208
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: jeffely@northwestern.edu


CURRICULUM VITAE-Feb 2009 (pdf)

RESEARCH

I write for the blog
Cheap Talk with Sandeep Baliga.

Working Papers

Revised "Kludged"

New "Mnemonomics: The Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Memory Kludge" (joint with Sandeep Baliga)

New "A Note on Unawareness " (joint with Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo)

New "Critical Types" (joint with Marcin Peski)

"Ex Post Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung)

"Efficient and Dominance Solvable Auction Mechanisms with Interdependent Valuations" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung)

Papers Appearing in Journals

"Sniping and Squatting in Auction Markets" (joint with Tanjim Hossain) (forthcoming: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics)

New "Common Learning" (joint with Martin Cripps, George Mailath, and Larry Samuelson) forthcoming Econometrica

"Foundations of Dominant Strategy Mechanisms" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung), Review of Economic Studies 74, pp. 447-476 (2007)

"When is Reputation Bad?" (joint with Drew Fudenberg and David Levine), forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior

"Evolution of Preferences" (joint with Eddie Dekel and Okan Yilankaya) forthcoming Review of Economic Studies

 "Hierarchies of Belief and Interim Rationalizability" (joint with Marcin Peski) Theoretical Economics 1, pp. 19-65 (2006)

 "Evolution in Bayesian Games I: Theory" (joint with Bill Sandholm)Games and Economic Behavior 53, pp. 83-109 (2005).

"Belief-free Equilibria in Repeated Games" (joint with Johannes Horner and Wojciech Olszewski), Econometrica 73, pp. 377-415 (2005).

"Implementation with Near-Complete Information" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung), Econometrica 71, pp. 857-871 (2003).

"Bad Reputation" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, pp. 785-814 (2003).

"Local Conventions" Advances in Theoretical Economics 2(1) (2002).

"Nash Equilibrium and the Evolution of Preferences" (joint with Okan Yilankaya), Journal of Economic Theory 97 (2001) 255-272.

"A Robust Folk Theorem for the Prisoner's Dilemma" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), Journal of Economic Theory 102 (2002) 84-105.

Papers Appearing in non-Journals
"Kludged", review in NAJ Economics, 14:1

"Bad Reputation" (joint with Juuso Valimaki), review in NAJ Economics, 4:3

Notes

New "A Comparison of the Bush-Paulson Plan and a Plan Based on Mortgage Guarantees."

"Revenue Equivalence without Differentiability Assumptions"

"A Note on Unawareness"

"Characterizing Stable Outcomes of Perturbed Markov Chains"

"Rationalizability and Approximate Common-Knowledge"

"Correlated Equilibrium and Trigger Strategies with Private Monitoring"

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