Olivier BOCHET

Department of Economics, University of Bern (Switzerland)

PhD Brown University (USA), 2004

Postal Address:

Department of Economics, University of Bern
Schanzeneckstrasse 1
CH-3012 Bern
Switzwerland

Phone: +41-31 631 4176

Email: olivier.bochet "at"vwi.unibe.ch

CV: download

Research Interests:
Mechanism/Market Design, Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Publications:

  1. Communication and Punishment in Voluntary Contribution Experiments (with Toby Page and Louis Putterman)
          Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 60, Issue 1, May 2006, Pages 11-26  
     

  2. Nash Implementation with Lottery Mechanisms
          Social choice and Welfare, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 111-125
     

  3. Strategic manipulations of multi-valued solutions in economies with indivisibilities (with Toyotaka Sakai)
          Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 53-68
     

  4. Switching from Complete to Incomplete Information
          Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 43, Issue 6, August 2007, Pages 735-748
     

  5. Implementation of the Walrasian Correspondence: The Boundary Problem
          International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 36, Issue 2, October 2007, Pages 301-316
     

  6. Not Just Babble: Opening the Black Box of Communication in a Voluntary Contribution Experiment (with Louis Putterman)
          European Economic Review, Volume 53, Issue 3, April 2009, Pages 309-326
     

  7. Secure Implementation in Allotment Economies (with Toyo Sakai)
          Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 35-49
     

  8. Virtual Nash Implementation with Admissible Supports (with Francois Maniquet)
          Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 99-108
     

  9. A Dynamic Recontracting Process for Multiple-Type Housing Markets (with Bettina Klaus and Markus Walzl)
          Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 84-98
     

  10. The Relation between Monotonicity and Strategy-Proofness (with Bettina Klaus)
      Social Choice and Welfare, Forthcoming
     

  11. Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities (with Sidartha Gordon), (pdf)
          Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
     

  12. Balancing Supply and Demand Under Bilateral Constraints (with Rahmi Ilkilic, Herve Moulin and Jay Sethuraman), (pdf)
     Theoretical Economics, Forthcoming  

     

Working Papers and Papers under Review:

  1. Preference Manipulations Lead to the Uniform Rule (with Toyo Sakai and William Thomson), (pdf) Revised version, August 2010
       M&R at Journal of Economic Theory
     

  2. Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints (with Rahmi Ilkilic and Herve Moulin), (pdf), August 2010
      R&R at Journal of Economic Theory
     

  3. Generalized Majoritarian Mechanisms for the Location of Multiple Public Facilities (with Sid Gordon and Rene Saran), (pdf), November 2010
     

  4. Incentive Compatibility and No-Arbitrage in Buyers-Sellers Networks (with Rahmi Ilkilic), Coming soon
     

  5.  Manipulation in Rationing Problems: Experimental Evidence (with T. Saijo, T. Sakai and T. Yamato), Coming soon  
     

  6. Climate Change and Commitment Device in Voluntary Contribution Experiments (with A. Dariel and J. Laurent-Lucchetti), Coming soon
     

  7. The Impact of Social Ties on Moral Hazard and Contracts in Experimental Labor Markets (with A. Dariel and L. Putterman), Work in Progress
           

  8. Maximal Domains for Strategy-Proof and Maskin Monotonic Choice Rules (with Ton Storcken), (pdf), Revised February 10
          R&R at Social Choice and Welfare
     

  9. On the Connections Between Walrasian and Rational Expectations Equilibria, (pdf) March 2007

  • Teaching:

    Analyse de la décision (Game Theory course, 4th year undergrad)  TP1 ReponsesTP1 TP2 ReponsesTP2 Exam
    Economie de l'information et de l'uncertain (Risk and Uncertainty course, 3rd year undergrad)  Homework1 AnswerHw1 Homework2 AnswerHw2
    Mathematiques pour l'économie III (Mathematics for Economists course 2nd year undergrad)  TP1  TP2 Matrices TP3 TP4 TP5 TP6 Exam1 Exam2 Kuhn-Tucker
    Colletives Choices I and II (Phd course, joint with Francois Maniquet), Reading List+Papers

    Advanced Microeconomics (Bern) HW1 Lecture Note 1 Answer-key HW1 Lecture Note 2 HW2 Answer-key HW2 Lecture Note 3 +set of Figures HW3

                                                           Midterm Exam Answer-key midterm exam Lecture Note 4 +set of Figures Answer-key HW3 Last year's Exam Lecture Note 5

    Seminar Behavioral and Experimental Issues in Public Economics (Bern) Readings:  For the full set of readings, please contact me by email.

    Economic Design and Collective Choice (Bern)  Lecture Note 1