CURRICULUM VITAE
June 1997

ROBERT B. WILSON
Atholl McBean Professor of Economics
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015.
Tel: 650-723-8620. Fax: 725-7979. Internet: RWilson@Stanford.edu

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

Harvard University: A.B. 1959, M.B.A. 1961, D.B.A. 1963.
Norwegian School of Economics: honorary Doctor of Economics, 1986.
University of Chicago: honorary Doctor of Laws, 1995.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Assistant/Associate Professor 1964-71; Professor 1971-76;
McBean Professor of Economics 1976- .

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Fellowships: CORE, University of Louvain, Belgium, Visiting Professor 1967. Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellow 1968. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1977-8. Guggenheim Fellowship 1982-3.

Scholarly Societies: National Academy of Sciences: elected Member 1994. American Academy of Arts and Sciences: elected Fellow 1981. Econometric Society: elected Fellow 1976; Council member 1989-94; plenary speaker 1985, 1989, and 1997; Fisher-Schultz Lecturer 1986; Vice-President and President-elect 1997-99.

Research Programs: Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation 1987- ; Director 1990. Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Affiliated Faculty 1993 - . Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Director 1993-5.

Associate Editor: Econometrica 1979-85; Mathematics of Operations Research 1988-90; Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1987-91; Journal of Regulatory Economics 1988-94; Games and Economic Behavior 1988- ; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 1995-.

Public Lectures: University of Oslo, Leif Johansen Award Program 1997; Tel Aviv University, Elisha Pazner Lecture 1997; Northwestern University, Nancy Schwartz Lecture 1994; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oskar Morgenstern Lecture 1994; Helsinki School of Economics, Union Bank Lecture 1991; MIT, Inter-Session Lectures 1984.

PUBLICATIONS OF ROBERT WILSON

DISSERTATION

A Simplicial Algorithm for Concave Programming. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1963.

BOOK

Nonlinear Pricing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-506885-8. Paperback edition 1997.

• Reviewed by Richard Schmalensee, Journal of Political Economy, December 1994, 102(6): 1288-1291; and by John C. Panzar, Journal of Economic Literature, September 1995, 33(3): 1339-1341. Selected by the editors of the Journal of Business as the 1995 winner of the Leo Melamed Prize, awarded biannually by the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago for "outstanding scholarship by a business professor."

EDITOR

Barriers to Conflict Resolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995. ISBN 0-393-03737-1. Co-edited with K. Arrow, R. Mnookin, L. Ross, and A. Tversky.

• Co-winner of the 1995 Awards for Excellence Book Prize of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Special Issue on Auction Design, co-edited with John McMillan and Michael Rothschild, Journal of Economics and Management Science, 1997.

BOOK REVIEW

Game and Economic Theory: Selected Contributions in Honor of Robert J. Aumann, University of Michigan Press, 1995; reviewed in Games and Economic Behavior, 1997.

ARTICLES in chronological order

1. "Computation of Optimal Controls," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 1 (April 1966), pp. 77-82.
2. "On Programming under Uncertainty," Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 4 (July-August 1966), pp. 652-657.
3. "Programming Variable Factors," Management Science, Vol. 13 (September 1966), pp. 144-151.
4. "Stronger Cuts in Gomory's All-Integer Integer Programming Algorithm," Note, Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 1 (January, 1967), pp. 155-157.
5. "Exchange Equilibrium as a Budgetary Adjustment Process," International Economic Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (February 1967), pp. 103-108.
6. "A Pareto-Optimal Dividend Policy," Management Science, Vol. 13, No. 9 (May 1967), pp. 756-764.
7. "Competitive Bidding with Asymmetric Information," Management Science, Vol. 13, No. 11 (July 1967), pp. 816-820.
8. "Optimal Dividend Policy," Proc. Fourth International Conference on Operations Research, D. Hertz and J. Melese (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York (1968), pp. 128-138.
9. "The Theory of Syndicates," Econometrica, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January, 1968), pp. 119-132.
10. "Decision Analysis in a Corporation," IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics, Vol. SSC-4, No. 3 (September 1968), pp. 220-226.
11. "Arrow's Possibility Theorem for Vote Trading," Mathematical Theory of Committees and Elections, pp. 26-39. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1969.
12. "The Role of Uncertainty and the Value of Logrolling in Collective Choice Processes," La Decision: Agregation et Dynamique des Ordres de Preference, G. Guilbaud (ed.), pp. 309-315. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969.
13. "The Structure of Incentives for Decentralization under Uncertainty," La Decision: Agregation et Dynamique des Ordres de Preference, G. Guilbaud (ed.), pp. 287-307. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969.
14. "Competitive Bidding with Disparate Information," Management Science, Vol. 15, No. 7 (March 1969), pp. 446-448. Reprinted in: Steven A. Lippman and David K. Levine (eds.), The Economics of Information, Edward Elgar Publishing, London, 1994.
15. "An Axiomatic Model of Logrolling," American Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 3 (June 1969), pp. 331-341.
16. "Investment Analysis under Uncertainty," Management Science, Vol. 15, No. 12 (August 1969), pp. B650-B664.
17. "Integer Programming via Modular Representations," Management Science, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 1970), pp. 348-353.
18. "The Finer Structure of Revealed Preference," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December 1970), pp. 348-353.
19. "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Social Choice," Social Choice, B. Lieberman (ed.), pp. 393-407. London and New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1971.
20. "Computing Equilibria of N-Person Games," SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 21, No. 1 (July 1971), pp. 80-87.
21. "Stable Coalition Proposals in Majority-Rule Voting," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 3 (September 1971), pp. 254-271.
22. "The Postulates of Game Theory," co-authored with Stefan Bloomfield, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 2 (1972), pp. 221-234.
23. "Computing Equilibria of Two-Person Games from the Extensive Form," Management Science, Vol. 18, No. 7 (March 1972), pp. 448-460.
24. "The Game-Theoretic Structure of Arrow's General Possibility Theorem," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1 (August 1972) pp. 14-20.
25. "Social Choice Theory without the Pareto Principle," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 5, No. 3 (December 1972), pp. 478-486.
26. "On the Need for a System Optimization Laboratory," co-authored with G. B. Dantzig, et al., Mathematical Programming, T. C. Hu and S. M. Robinson (eds.), pp. 1-32. New York: Academic Press, 1973.
27. "On the Theory of the Firm in an Economy with Incomplete Markets," co-authored with Steinar Ekern, Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1974), pp. 171-180.
28. "The Structure of Trade," co-authored with Mordecai Kurz, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 1974), pp. 493-516.
29. "On the Theory of Aggregation," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 10 (February 1975), pp. 89-99.
30. "Informational Economies of Scale," Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 1975), pp. 184-195.
31. "A Bidding Model of Perfect Competition," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3 (October 1977), pp. 511-518.
32. "The Bilinear Complementarity Problem and Competitive Equilibria of Piecewise Linear Economic Models," Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 2 (January 1978), pp. 87-103.
33. "Competitive Exchange," Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 3 (May 1978), pp. 577-585.
34. "Information, Efficiency, and the Core of an Economy," Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 4 (July 1978), pp. 807-816.
35. "Management and Financing of Exploration for Offshore Oil and Gas," Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Fall 1978), pp. 629-657.
36. "Auctions of Shares," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 93, No. 4 (November 1979), pp. 675-689.
37. "Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty in Stapleton and Subrahmanyam's A Multiperiod Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model," co-authored with David Kreps, Econometrica, Vol. 48, No. 6 (September 1980), pp. 1565-1566.
38. "Computation of Competitive Equilibria by a Sequence of Linear Programs," co-authored with Alan Manne and Hung-Po Chao, Econometrica, Vol. 48, No. 7 (November 1980), pp. 1595-1615.
39. "Perfect Equilibria and Sequential Rationality," in: Games of Incomplete Information and Related Topics, H. Moulin et al. (eds.). Marseilles-Luminy, France: Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, 1981.
40. "Risk Measurement of Public Projects," in: Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy, R. C. Lind (ed.), pp. 205-249. Washington: Resources for the Future and John Hopkins University Press, 1982.
41. "Sequential Equilibria," co-authored with David Kreps, Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July 1982), pp. 863-894.
42. "Reputation and Imperfect Information," co-authored with David Kreps, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 27, No. 2 (August 1982), pp. 253-279. Reprinted in: Oliver Williamson (ed.), Industrial Organization, 1990 (paperback edition 1996); London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
43. "Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma," co-authored with David Kreps, Paul Milgrom, and John Roberts, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 27, No. 2 (August 1982), pp. 245-252. Reprinted in: Game Theory, A. Rubinstein (ed.), London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1991.
44. "Nonlinear Pricing in Markets with Interdependent Demand," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Marketing Science, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Summer 1982), pp. 287-313.
45. "Linear Tariffs with Quality Discrimination," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn 1982), pp. 455-471.
46. "On Competitive Bidding Applied," Chapter IV.4 in: Auctions, Bidding, and Contracting: Uses and Theory, Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Martin Shubik, and Robert M. Stark (eds.), pp. 363-368. New York: New York University Press, 1983.
47. "Competitive Nonlinear Tariffs," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 29, No. 1 (February 1983) pp. 49-71.
48. "Auditing: Perspectives from Multi-Person Decision Theory," The Accounting Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (April 1983), pp. 305-318.
49. "Pricing a Product Line," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Journal of Business, Vol. 57, No. 1 [Part 2, supplement] (January 1984), pp. S79-S99.
50. "A Note on Revelation of Information for Joint Production," Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1984), pp. 69-73.
51. "Capacity Pricing," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Econometrica, Vol. 53, No. 3 (May 1985), pp. 549-566.
52. "Priority Service: Managing Risk by Unbundling Electric Power Service," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, Shmuel Oren, and Stephen Smith, Proceedings of Energy Technology Conference XIII, March 1986, pp. 1610-1618.
53. "Efficient Trading," in: Issues in Contemporary Microeconomics and Welfare, George Feiwel (ed.), Chapter 4, pp. 169-208. London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1985. (Reviewed by J. Chilton in The Wall Street Review of Books, Fall 1986, pp. 236-238.)
54. "Reputations in Games and Markets," in: Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining with Incomplete Information, Alvin Roth (ed.); Chapter 3, pp. 27-62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. (Reviewed by S. Clark in Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1987, page 103.)
55. "Incentive Efficiency of Double Auctions," Econometrica, Vol. 53, No. 5 (September 1985), pp. 1101-1116.
56. "Multi-Dimensional Signalling," Economics Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (October 1985), pp. 17-21.
57. "Foundations of Dynamic Monopoly and the Coase Conjecture," co-authored with Faruk Gul and Hugo Sonnenschein, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 39 (July 1986), pp. 155-190. Reprinted in: Peter B. Linhart, Roy Radner, and Mark A. Satterthwaite (eds.), Bargaining with Incomplete Information, Chapter 12, pp. 264-299, Academic Press, San Diego, 1992.
58. "Multi-Level Demand-Subscription Pricing for Electric Power," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, Shmuel Oren, and Stephen Smith, Energy Economics, Vol. 4 (October 1986), pp. 199-217.
59. "Priority Service: Unbundling the Quality Attributes of Electric Power," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith. Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute, Report EA-4851, November 1986.
60. "Multi-Product Pricing for Electric Power," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith, Energy Economics, Vol. 5 (April 1987), pp. 104-114.
61. "Equilibria of Bid-Ask Markets," in: Arrow and the Ascent of Economic Theory: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, G. Feiwel (ed.); Chapter 11, pp. 375-414. London and New York: Macmillan Press and New York University Press, 1987.
62. "Game-Theoretic Analyses of Trading Processes," in: Advances in Economic Theory: Fifth World Congress, Truman Bewley (ed.); Chapter 2, pp. 33-70. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
63. "Selected Papers on Priority Service," co-authored with Shmuel Oren, Stephen Smith, and Hung-po Chao. Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute, Report EPRI P-5350, August 1987; 253 pages.
64. "Bidding," entry on auction theory, in: The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman (eds.), Volume 1, pp. 238-242. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1987. Reprinted in: The New Palgrave Selected Reprints, Volume 2 (Allocation, Information, and Markets), 1989, pp. 54-63; and The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992.
65. "Exchange," entry on Walrasian models of exchange, in: The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman (eds.), Volume 2, pp. 202-207. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1987. Reprinted in: The New Palgrave Selected Reprints, Volume 2 (Allocation, Information, and Markets), 1989, pp. 83-93; The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992; and The New Palgrave World of Economics, 1992.
66. "Priority Service: Pricing, Investment, and Market Organization," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, American Economic Review, Volume 77, No. 5, December 1987, pp. 899-916.
67. "Priority Service: Market Structure and Competition," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, Shmuel Oren, and Stephen Smith, Energy Journal, special Issue on Electricity Reliability, Volume 9, No. 4, November 1988, pp. 77-104.
68. "Credentials and Wage Discrimination," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue on Information and Incentives in Organizations, Volume 90, No. 4 (December 1988), pp. 549-562.
69. "Entry and Exit," in: George R. Feiwel (ed.), The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment, 1989, Chapter 8, pp. 260-304. London: Macmillan Press Ltd.
70. "Efficient and Competitive Rationing," Econometrica, Volume 57, No. 1 (January 1989), pp. 1-40.
71. "Rational Bargaining and Market Efficiency: Understanding Pennzoil v. Texaco," co-authored with Robert H. Mnookin, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 2 (March 1989), pp. 295-334.
72. "Deterrence in Oligopolistic Competition," in: Paul C. Stern, Robert Axelrod, Robert Jervis, and Roy Radner (eds.), Perspectives on Deterrence, 1989, Chapter 8, pp. 157-190. New York: Oxford University Press.
73. "Ramsey Pricing of Priority Service," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 1989), pp. 189-202.
74. "Competitive Strategies in Business," Norwegian Economic Journal, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Autumn 1989), pp. 241-251.
75. "Service Design in the Electric Power Industry," co-authored with Shmuel Oren and Stephen Smith. (Author of Chapters 1-8 and 14-19.) Report P-6543, January 1990. Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute.
76. "Strategic Bargaining Models and Interpretation of Strike Data," co-authored with John Kennan, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Autumn 1989 Supplement, Vol. 4, pp. S87-S130.
77. "Can Strategic Bargaining Models Explain Collective Bargaining Data?," co-authored with John Kennan, American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2 (May 1990), pp. 405-409.
78. "Theories of Bargaining Delays," co-authored with John Kennan, Science, Vol. 249 (7 September 1990), pp. 1124-1128.
79. "Optimal Contract Period for Priority Service," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, Operations Research, Vol. 37, No. 4 (July-August 1990), pp. 598-606.
80. "Multiproduct Tariffs," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1991), pp. 5-26; and "Erratum," Vol. 3, No. 2 (June 1991), p. 211.
81. "Strategic Analysis of Auctions," in: R. Aumann and S. Hart (eds.), Handbook of Game Theory, 1992, Volume 1, Chapter 8, pp. 227-279. Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers.
82. "Strategic Models of Entry Deterrence," in: R. Aumann and S. Hart (eds.), Handbook of Game Theory, Volume 1, Chapter 10, pp. 305-329. Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers.
83. "Computing Simply Stable Equilibria," Econometrica, Vol. 60, No. 5 (September 1992), pp. 1039-1070.
84. "Priority Service Methods," in H. Chao, S. Oren, and S. Smith (eds.), New Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities: Creating Differentiated Products, 1993, Chapter 2, pp. 7-29. Norwell MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
85. "Design of Efficient Trading Procedures," in: Daniel Friedman and John Rust (eds.), The Double Auction Market: Institutions, Theories, and Evidence, 1993. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XIV, Chapter 5, pp. 125-152. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
86. "Bargaining with Private Information," co-authored with John Kennan, Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 31, No. 1 (March 1993), pp. 45-104.
87. "Option Value of Emission Allowances," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 1993), pp. 233-249.
88. "Strategic and Informational Barriers to Negotiation," Chapter 6, pp. 108-119, in: K. Arrow, R. Mnookin, L. Ross, A. Tversky, and R. Wilson (eds.), Barriers to Conflict Resolution, 1995. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
89. "Negotiation with Private Information: Litigation and Strikes," in The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lectures, Econometric Society Monograph Series, 1966. New York: Cambridge University Press.
90. "Signaling in Negotiations," in: Richard Zeckhauser, Ralph Keeney, and James Sebenius (eds.), Wise Choices: Games, Decisions, and Negotiations, 1996, Chapter 22, pp. 400-413. Boston MA: Harvard Business School Press.
91. "A Sufficient Condition for Invariance of Essential Components," co-authored with Srihari Govindan, Duke Mathematical Journal, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January 1996), pp. 39-46.
92. "Nonlinear Pricing and Mechanism Design," in Hans Amman, David Kendrick, and John Rust (eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 1, Chapter 5, pp. 253-293, 1996. New York: Elsevier Science Publishers.
93. "John Harsanyi and the Economics of Information," Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 1996), pp. 296-298.
94. "Admissibility and Stability," in: Wulf Albers, Werner Guth, Peter Hammerstein, Benny Moldovanu, and Eric van Damme (eds.), Understanding Strategic Behavior: Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten, Chapter 8, pp. 85-99, 1997. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
95. "Implementation of Priority Insurance in Power Exchange Markets," Energy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 1997), pp. 111-123.
96. "Equivalence and Invariance of the Index and Degree of Nash Equilibria," co-authored with Srihari Govindan, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 15, to appear 1997.
97. "Uniqueness of the Index for Nash Equilibria of Two-Player Games," co-authored with Srihari Govindan, Economic Theory, Vol. 10, to appear 1997.

MANUSCRIPTS

"Private Information and Legal Bargaining," entry in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics, to appear 1998.

"A Theory of Discovery in Litigation," co-authored with Robert Mnookin, Games and Economic Behavior, to appear.

"Sequential Equilibria of Asymmetric Ascending Auctions," Economic Theory, to appear.

"Auctions of Stranded Power Assets," May 1996 (LEES Working Paper, School of Engineering, MIT), and "Auctions of Transmission Capacity Reservations," November 1996, filings to the Massachusetts DPU and Attorney General, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commisssion.

"Multi-Unit Auctions," co-authored with Hung-po Chao, November 1995.

"Activity Rules for the Power Exchange" and "Priority Pricing of Ancillary Services," reports to the California PX and ISO Trusts for Power Industry Restructuring, March and May, 1997 (www.energyonline.com/wepex).