Department of Economics

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 
   
Matthew and me.
Theoretical Economics
  Now a journal of the Econometric Society 

Working Papers 

Selected Published Papers 

Curriculum Vitae 

Teaching 

Links 

Fun Stuff
 

 

Working Papers 

"How (Not) to Do Decision Theory," with Eddie Dekel, current draft October 2009.

"Implementation and Partial Provability," with Elchanan Ben-Porath, first draft September 2008, current draft April 2009.

"Finite Order Implications of Common Priors in Infinite Models," current draft June 2009. Forthcoming in Journal of Mathematical Economics.

"Why is Language Vague?," current draft, November 2009.


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Final Working Paper Versions of Selected Published Papers 

"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.)


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Teaching

Fall 2009: My office hours for the second half of the fall semester are by appointment.

Spring 2010:


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This page was developed largely by ripping off material from my former Wisconsin colleagues Jim Andreoni, Larry Samuelson, and Bill Sandholm. Special thanks to Michael Manove for the photo of the famous BU hawk.