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James Jordan |
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Joined the faculty in 1998 Ph.D., 1975, Northwestern |
514 Kern Graduate Building Phone: (814) 865-2201 Fax: (814) 863-4775 E-mail: jxj13@psu.edu Office Hours for Summer 2013: by appointment
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Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest:
- Economic Theory
- Game Theory
Recent Publications:
“Pillage and Property,” Journal of Economic Theory 131, 2006, 26-44.
"Economic Dynamics and Learning in Games," to be published by Seoul National University as the first annual T.S. Kim Memorial Lecture.
"On the Communication Complexity of Expected-Profit Maximization" (with D. Xu), Journal of Economic Theory 86, 1999, 185-202.
"The Existence of Rational Expectations Equilibrium: A Retrospective," in Organizations with Incomplete Information, Mukul Majumdar (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
"Bayesian Learning in Games: A Non-Bayesian Perspective," in The Dynamics of Norms, C. Bicchieri, R. Jeffery and B. Skyrms (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.
"Activity-Based Costing for Economic Value Added" (with R. Anctil and A. Mukherji), Review of Accounting Studies 2, 1997, 231-264.
"The Asymptotic Optimality of Residual Income Maximization" (with R. Anctil and A. Mukherji), Review of Accounting Studies 2, 1997, 207-229.
"The Intrinsic Dynamics of Economic Equilibrium Concepts," in The Economics of Informational Decentralization: Complexity, Efficiency and Stability, Essays in honor of Stanley Reiter, J. Ledyard (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995.
Research in Progress:
- "Power and Efficiency in Production Pillage Games"
- "Power and Legitimacy in Pillage Games"
- "Pillage and Property"
- Firm valuation and takeovers
- Learning in decision networks
- An economic theory of allocation by force