Dr. Todd Kaplan

	Office Address:	Department of Economics Streatham Court University of Exeter Exeter, EX4 4PU UK Tel.: 44-1392-263237 Fax: 1-530-871-6103 and Department of Economics University of Haifa

Pictures: Joel's page, Joel's new pictures, the Twins

Class: MSc Microeconomics at Haifa, BEE2017 at Exeter

Research Interests

Economic Theory, Industrial Organization, Experimental Economics

Education

Ph.D, Economics, University of Minnesota, 1996.
M.A., Economics, University of Minnesota, 1991.
B.S., Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1989.

Journal Publications

"Optimal Allocation Without Transfer Payments," (with Surajeet Chakravarty). Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. [PDF]
"Which Way to Cooperate," (with Bradley Ruffle). Economic Journal, forthcoming. [PDF]
"Communication of Preferences in Contests for Contracts," Economic Theory, forthcoming [PDF]
"A Simple Economic Teaching Experiment on the Hold-Up Problem," (with Dieter Balkenborg and Tim Miller) Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming. [PDF]
"Asymmetric First-Price Auctions with Uniform Distributions: Analytic Solutions to the General Case," (with Shmuel Zamir) Economic Theory, 2012 50(2), 269-302. Lead article. [PDF]
"Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco," (with Eric Gould). Labour Economics, 2011 18, 338–348. [PDF]
"Teaching Bank Runs with Classroom Experiments," (with Dieter Balkenborg and Tim Miller) Journal of Economic Education, 2011 42(3), 224-242. [PDF]
"Influence of aggregation and measurement scale on ranking a compromise alternative in AHP," (with Alessio Ishizaka and Dieter Balkenborg) Journal of the Operational Research Society, (2011) 62, 700–710. [PDF]
"Does AHP help us make a choice?-An experimental evaluation," (with Alessio Ishizaka and Dieter Balkenborg) Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2011, 62(10), 1801—1812. [PDF]
"Using Economic Classroom Experiments," (with Dieter Balkenborg) International Review of Economics Education, November 2010, 9(2): 99-106. [PDF]
"Vote or Shout," (with Surajeet Chakravarty) The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, September 2010, vol. 10(1). [PDF]
"Effective Contests," (with Aner Sela) Economics Letters, January 2010, 106 (1): 38-41. [PDF]
"A Laboratory-Based Study of Understanding of Uncertainty in 5-Day Site-Specific Temperature Forecasts," (with Mark Roulston) Meteorological Applications, June 2009 16 (2): 237-244. [PDF]
"In Search of Welfare-Improving Gifts," (with Bradley Ruffle) European Economics Review, May 2009 53 (4): 445-460. [PDF]
"Optimal Rewards in Contests," (with Aner Sela and Chen Cohen) RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2008 39 (2), 434-451. [PDF]
"Caps on Political Lobbying: Comment," (with David Wettstein) American Economic Review, 2006, 96, pages 1351-1354 [PDF]
"Why Banks Should Keep Secrets," Economic Theory , February 2006 27, 341-357 [PDF]
"Dividing the Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Cabinet Ministries to Political Parties in a Parliamentary," Journal of Theoretical Politics (with Steven Brams), 2004 16 (2):143-173. [PDF]
"The Self-Serving Biases and Beliefs about Rationality," Economic Inquiry (with Bradley Ruffle), April 2004 42 (2):237-246. [PDF]
"Innovative Activity with Sunk Cost," (with David Wettstein and Israel Luski) International Journal of Industrial Organization , October 2003 21: 1111-1133 [PDF]
"Government Policy towards Multi-National Corporations," Economics Bulletin, (with Israel Luski and David Wettstein) May 2003 6 (3): 1-8. [PDF]
"All-Pay Auctions with Variable Rewards" (with Luski, Sela, Wettstein) Journal of Industrial Economics, December 2002 L (4): 417-430 [PDF]
"Effective Price-Matching" International Journal of Industrial Organization, December 2000. [PDF]
"Surplus Sharing with a Two-Stage Mechanism" (with David Wettstein). International Economic Review, May 2000 41(2):399-409. [PDF]
"The Possibility of Mixed-Strategy Equilibria with Constant-Returns-to-Scale Technology under Bertrand Competition" (with David Wettstein). Spanish Economic Review, March 2000 2(1):65-71. [PDF]
"Cost Sharing: Efficiency and Implementation" (with David Wettstein). Journal of Mathematical Economics, December 1999 32(4):489-502. [PDF]
"Self-Serving Bias [Comment]" (with Bradley Ruffle). Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998 12(2):243-244. [Extended version PDF]
"A Program for Finding Nash Equilibria" (with John Dickhaut). The Mathematica Journal, Fall 1992 1(4):87-93. [PDF] [Program] [Updated for 3 players] [Mathematica Demonstrations (cool!)]

Collective Works

"Designing an Incentive-Compatible Contract" (with Arijit Mukherji) in Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica, Editor: Hal Varian, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
"A Program for Finding Nash Equilibria" (with John Dickhaut) in Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica, Editor: Hal Varian, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Papers

The Strategic Use of Seller Information in Private-Value Auctions (with Shmuel Zamir). [PDF]
Revenue Effects of Asymmetry in Auctions (with Shmuel Zamir) [PDF]
Delegated Job Design (with Hans Hvide) [PDF]
Auctions with Private Entry Costs (with Aner Sela) [PDF]

Grants

I wish to thank various foundations for their generous support of my work, including Nuffield, Leverhulme, ESRC, HEFCE, British Academy, and Israeli Science Foundation.