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MIT

Robert Gibbons

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management and Professor of Organizational Economics, Department of Economics

MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive, E52-432
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
(617) 253-0283 (phone)
(617) 258-6855 (fax)
rgibbons@mit.edu

 

Curriculum Vita


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Teaching

MBA Course (15.903: Corporate Strategy and Extended Enterprises)

Ph.D. Courses

 

Books

  • Game Theory for Applied Economists, Princeton University Press, 1992. (International version: A Primer in Game Theory, Harvester-Wheatsheaf.) translated into Chinese, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
  • Organizational Economics, Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2009.
  • Handbook of Organizational Economics (with J. Roberts, eds.), Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2008.

 

Papers

Applied Theory

  • Disolving a Partnership Efficiently
    (with P. Cramton and P. Klemperer). Econometrica, 55 (1987): 615-32.

    Reprinted in The Economic Theory of Auctions, P. Klemperer (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (Cheltenham, U.K.), 1999.

  • Simultaneous Signaling to the Capital and Product Markets
    (with R. Gertner and D. Scharfstein). Rand Journal of Economics, 19 (1988): 173-90.
  • Cheap Talk Can Matter in Bargaining
    (with J. Farrell). Journal of Economic Theory, 48 (1989): 221-37.

    Reprinted in Bargaining with Incomplete Information, P. Linhart, R. Radner, and M. Satterthwaite (eds.), Academic Press, 1992.

  • Cheap Talk with Two Audiences
    (with J. Farrell). American Economic Review, 79 (1989): 1214-23.
  • Cheap Talk about Specific Investments
    (With J. Farrell). Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 11 (1995): 313-34.
  • An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11 (1997): 127-49.

    Reprinted in Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions, R. Kuenne (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

 

Labor Economics

 

Behavioral Game Theory

  • When and Why Do Negotiators Outperform Game Theory?
    (with M. Bazerman, L. Thompson, and K. Valley). Chapter 4 in R. Stern and J. Halpern (eds.), Nonrational Elements of Organizational Decision Making, ILR Press (Ithaca, NY), 1998.
  • Contingent Social Utility in the Prisoners' Dilemma
    (with L. van Boven). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45 (2001): 1-17.
  • How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games
    (with M. Bazerman, L. Thompson, and K. Valley). Games and Economic Behavior, 38 (2002): 127-55.
  • Reprinted in Negotiation, Decision Making and Conflict Management, M. Bazerman (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2004.

 

Political Economy

  • Trust in Social Structures: Hobbes and Coase Meet Repeated Games
    Chapter 11 in K. Cook (ed.), Trust in Society, Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.


  • Hobbesean Horseraces
    (with A. Rutten). Revised draft, August 2006.

 

Incentive Contracts

 

Organizational Economics


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