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Department of Economics | |
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Barton L. Lipman
Professor of Economics
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-2995
Fax: 617-353-4449
email: blipman "at" bu.edu
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 Theoretical EconomicsA journal of the Econometric Society |
"Temptation," with Wolfgang Pesendorfer, current draft April 2011.
"Why is Language Vague?," current draft, November 2009.
"Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence," with Eddie Dekel, Econometrica, forthcoming.
"Implementation with Partial Provability," with Elchanan Ben-Porath, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
"How (Not) to Do Decision Theory," with Eddie Dekel, Annual Review of Economics, 2010.
"Finite Order Implications of Common Priors in Infinite Models," Journal of Mathematical Economics, January 2010.
"Temptation-Driven Preferences," with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini, Review of Economic Studies, July 2009.
"Switching Costs in Infinitely Repeated Games," with Ruqu Wang, Games and Economic Behavior, May 2009.
"Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space: Corrigendum," with Eddie Dekel, Aldo Rustichini, and Todd Sarver, Econometrica , March 2007. See also supplemental appendix with complete proof of DLR's additive EU theorem.
"Finite Order Implications of Common Priors," Econometrica , July 2003. (supplemental notes )
"Language and Economics," in N. Dimitri, M. Basili, and I. Gilboa, eds., Cognitive Processes and Rationality in Economics, London: Routledge, 2003.
"Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space," with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini, Econometrica , July 2001.
"Comments on Rubinstein's Economics and Language," September 1999. (This appears in Rubinstein's book.)
"Switching Costs in Frequently Repeated Games," with Ruqu Wang, Journal of Economic Theory , August 2000.
"Decision Theory without Logical Omniscience: Toward an Axiomatic Framework for Bounded Rationality," Review of Economic Studies, April 1999.
"Standard State-Space Models Preclude Unawareness," with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini, Econometrica , January 1998.
"Evolution with State-Dependent Mutations," with James Bergin, Econometrica , July 1996.
"Robust Inference in Communication Games with Partial Provability," with Duane J. Seppi, Journal of Economic Theory, August 1995. (Warning: No figures.)
Spring 2012: My office hours will be on Mondays from 11 to 12:30 and Tuesdays from 1 to 2:30 beginning Monday January 30. Office hours are subject to change with all changes announced in class and not always noted on this web page. If you need to see me and are not regularly attending my class, I recommend that you email first to verify my office hours. I am also available by appointment at other times.
A few past micro qualifier questions and answers. Be warned that the answers are often quite terse and may contain typos.