Curriculum Vitae
Oscar Volij

I have a dream that my papers will one day be judged not by the place where they were published but by the content of their rejections.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1994.
   
• M.A. in Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989.
   
• Licenciado en Economia at Buenos Aires University, 1985.
   

Professional appointments

• 2008-present Professor of Economics at Ben Gurion University.
   
• 2003-2008 Associate Professor of Economics at Ben Gurion University.
   
• 2006-2008 Professor of Economics at Iowa State University.
   
• 2001-2005 Associate Professor of Economics at Iowa State University.
   
• 1998-2002 Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
   
• 1998-2001 Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University.
   
• 1995-1998 Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University.
   
• 1993-1994 Postdoctoral fellow at CentER of Economic Research.
   

Articles in refereed journals

• When do more police induce more crime? link to the paper
  Economic Theory 76, 759-778 (2023), (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-022-01477-7)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Federico Weinschelbaum.
   
• Theft in equilibrium
  European Economic Review 139 (2021) 103869 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103869)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Federico Weinschelbaum.
   
• The measurement of income segregation
  International Economic Review (2020) 61, 1479-1500, (https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12466)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• Pairwise consensus and the Borda rule
  Mathematical Social Sciences. (2022) 116, 17-21 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.12.001)
  with Muhammad Mahajne.
   
• The measurement of income segregation
  International Economic Review (2020) 61, 1479-1500, (https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12466)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• Condorcet winners and social acceptability
  Social Choice and Welfare. (2019) 53, 641-653 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-019-01204-7)
  with Muhammad Mahajne.
   
• The value of a draw
  Economic Theory (2020) 70, 1023-1044, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-018-1140-x)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• Ranking scholars: a measure representation
  Journal of Informetrics 12 (2018), 510--517 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.04.003 1751-1577)
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• The socially acceptable scoring rule
  Social Choice and Welfare. 2018 (DOI: 10.1007/s00355-018-1113-9)
  with Muhammad Mahajne.
   
• An alternative proof of Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya's (1929) necessary condition for majorization
  Economic Theory Bulletin. October 2016, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp 347--350 (dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40505-016-0096-x).
   
• First-Mover Advantage in Two-Sided Competitions: An Experimental Comparison of Role-Assignment Rules
  International Journal of Game Theory. (2016) 45:933-970 (DOI 10.1007/s00182-015-0493-7) (https://rdcu.be/7n5j)
  with Bradley Ruffle.
   
• Level r Consensus and Stable Social Choice
  Social Choice and Welfare. 45(4) 805-817, 2015 (DOI: 10.1007/s00355-015-0882-7)
  with Muhammad Mahajne and Shmuel Nitzan.
   
• Axiomatic Measures of Intellectual Influence
  Int. J. Ind. Organ. 34 85-90, 2015 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2014.02.011)
  with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.
   
• Segregation, Informativeness and Lorenz Dominance
  Social Choice and Welfare, 43, Issue 3 (2014), 547-564, DOI 10.1007/s00355-014-0801-3
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• A simple proof of Foster's (1983) characterization of the Theil measure of inequality
  Economic Modelling, 35, September 2013, 940-943, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2013.07.024
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega.
   
• An axiomatic characterization of the Theil inequality ordering
  Economic Theory, DOI 10.1007/s00199-012-0739-6
  with Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Marta Urrutia.
   
• Measuring School Segregation
  Journal of Economic Theory, 146, 1-38, 2011
  with David Frankel.
   
• Field Centipedes
  American Economic Review, 99:4, 1619-1635, 2009
  with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.
   
• Experientia Docet: Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments
  Econometrica,76(1), 71-115, 2008.
  with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.
   
• MISTAKES IN COOPERATION: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting
  forthcoming in The Economic Journal
  with Roberto Serrano.
   
• Decentralized Trade, Random Utility and the Evolution of Social Welfare
  Journal of Economic Theory, 140(1), 328-338, 2008.
  with Michihiro Kandori and Roberto Serrano.
   
• Ranking Participants in Generalized Tournaments
  International Journal of Game Theory, 23(2), 255-270, 2005
  with Giora Slutzki.
   
• Scoring of Web Pages and Tournaments -- Axiomatizations
  Social Choice and Welfare, 26(1), 75-92, 2006
  with Giora Slutzki.
   
• The Measurment of Intellectual Influence
  Econometrica, 72, (2004), 963-977.
  with Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.
   
• The Evolution of Exchange
  Journal of Economic Theory, 114, (2004), 310-328.
  with Asaf Ben-Shoham and Roberto Serrano
   
• Public Education, Communities, and Vouchers
  with Maria J. Luengo Prado
  Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 43, 51-73, (2003).
   
• A Remark on Bargaining and Non-Expected Utility
  Mathematical Social Sciences, 44(1), 1-15, September 2002
   
• Payoff Equivalence in Sealed Bid Auctions and the Dual Theory of Choice Under Risk
  Economics Letters, 76(2), 231--237, 2002
   
• On Risk Aversion and Bargaining Outcomes
  Games and Economic Behavior 41(1), 120-140, (2002)
  with Eyal Winter.
   
• An Axiomatization of the Nash Bargaining Solution
  Social Choice and Welfare, 19, 811-823, (2002)
  with Nir Dagan and Eyal Winter
   
• Will You Marry Me? A Perspective on the Gender Gap
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 49(4), 549-572, 2002
  with Ronel Elul and Jose Angel Silva-Reus
   
• In defense of DEFECT
  Games and Economic Behavior, 39, 309--321 (2002).
   
• On the Failure of Core Convergence
  Econometrica, 69, 1685--1696 (2001)
  with Roberto Serrano and Rajiv Vohra
   
• The Core of Economies with Asymmetric Information: An Axiomatic Approach
  Journal of Mathematical Economics 38, 43-63, (2000)
  with Darin Lee.
   
• Walrasian Allocations without Price-Taking Behavior
  Journal of Economic Theory, 95: 79-106 (2000)
  with Roberto Serrano
   
• Communication, Credible Improvements and the Core of an Economy with Asymmetric Information
  International Journal of Game Theory, 29: 63--79 (2000)
   
• Formation of Nations in a Welfare-State Minded World
  Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2:157-181 (2000)
  with Nir Dagan
   
• Bargaining, Coalitions, and Competition
  Economic Theory, 15:279-296 (2000)
  with Nir Dagan and Roberto Serrano.
   
• Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods
  Review of Economic Design, 4:57-72 (1999)
  with Nir Dagan and Roberto Serrano.
   
• Comment on McLennan and Sonnenschein "Sequential Bargaining as a Non-Cooperative Foundation for Walrasian Equilibrium"
  Econometrica, 66, 1231-1233 (1998).
  with Roberto Serrano and Nir Dagan.
   
• Axiomatizations of Neoclassical Concepts for Economies
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, 30: 87-108 (1998)
  with Roberto Serrano.
   
• A Noncooperative View of Consistent Bankruptcy Rules
  Games and Economic Behavior, 18: 55-72 (1997)
  with Nir Dagan and Roberto Serrano.
   
• Bilateral Comparisons and Consistent Fair Division Rules in the Context of Bankruptcy Problems
  International Journal of Game Theory, 26: 11-26 (1997)
  with Nir Dagan.
   
• Two Characterizations of the Uniform Rule for Division Problems with Single-Peaked Preferences
  Economic Theory, 7: 291-306 (1996)
  with Gert-Jan Otten and Hans Peters.
   
• Epistemic Conditions for Equilibrium in Beliefs Without Independence
  Journal of Economic Theory, 70: 391-406 (1996).
   
• Dynamic Consistency, Consequentialism and The Reduction of Compound Lotteries
  Economics Letters, 46: 121-129 (1994).
   
• The Bankruptcy Problem: A Cooperative Bargaining Approach
  Mathematical Social Sciences, 26: 287-297 (1993)
  with Nir Dagan.