University of California, San Diego
Economics Department, (0508)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
(858) 534-4367
(858) 534-3383 (messages)
(858) 534-7040 (fax)
E-mail:
jsobel at ucsd dot edu
Teaching
Information (Current)
Economics 172A,
Fall 2010Economics 205,
Fall 2010
Ecore Summer School, June 2009
Lectures at Paris I, December 2006
Lectures at Paris I, June 2007
Working Papers:
Information
Aggregation and Group Decisions, 2006.
Signaling without
Handicap, 2007
Do Markets
Make People Selfish, 2008.
Publications:
Other-Regarding
Preferences in General Equilibrium (with Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Heidues,
Georg Kirchsteiger, and Frank Riedel), Review
of Economic Studies, 78 (2): 613-639, 2011.
Generous Actors, Selfish
Actions: Markets with Other-Regarding Preferences, International Review of
Economics, 56(1), 3-16, 2008.
Comments on
Neuroeconomics, American Economic
Journal - Microeconomics.
ReGale: Some Memorable
Results, Games
and Economic Behavior, 66(2): 632-642, July 2009.
Signaling
Games, in Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, M. Sotomayor(ed.), Springer.
David Gale, in
The New
PalgraveDictionary of Economics, S.Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.),
MacMillan, 2008.
Selecting
Cheap-Talk Equilibria (with Ying Chen and Navin Kartik), Econometrica,76 (1), 117-136, 2008
A Characterization of Intrinsic Reciprocity (with Uzi Segal), International
Journal of Game Theory, 36 (3-4), 571-585, 2007.
Tit for Tat
(with Uzi Segal), Journal of Economic Theory,
136 (1), 197-216, 2007.
For Better or
Forever: Formal versus Informal Enforcement, Journal of Labor
Economics, 24 (2), 271-297, 2006.
A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments (with Luis Santos-Pinto), American
Economic Review, 95 (5), 1386-1402, 2005.
Interdependent
Preferences and Reciprocity, Journal
of Economic Literature, 93,392-436, June 2005.
Putting Altruism
in Context, Brain and
Behavioral Science, 25: 275-276,2003.
Min,
Max, and Sum (with Uzi Segal), Journal of Economic Theory, 106 (1),
126-150, 2002.
Can We Trust Social
Capital? Journal of Economic Literature,
90, 139-154, March 2002. Correction
On the Dynamics of
Standards, RAND Journal of Economics, 32 (4), 606-623,
Winter 2001.
Another View of Trust
and Gossip, in J. Rauch and A. Casella, Networks and Markets, New York: Russell Sage,
2001.
Manipulation of
Preferences and Relative Utilitarianism, Games
and Economic Behavior, 37 (1), 196-215, October 2001.