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Prof Aviad Heifetz
Aviad Heifetz

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & DECISION SCIENCES
Visiting Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

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Aviad Heifetz is a visiting professor of Managerial Economics at Kellogg for the academic year 2009-2010. He is holding a Ph.D. in mathematics from Tel Aviv University (1994), and his current home base is the Open University of Israel, where he served as chair of the Economics and Management department in 2006-2009. He is the author of the textbook "Strategic Thinking – Game Theory with Economics and Business Applications" (Hebrew, English translation forthcoming). His research in Game Theory and Economic Theory provided insights into the evolution of preferences, market design, bargaining, competitive economies with asymmetric information and interactive epistemology. His papers were published in top scholarly journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior and Mathematical Social Sciences.
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Education
PhD, 1994, Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University
MSc, 1991, Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University
BSc, 1986, Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University

Academic Positions
Professor, Economics, The Open University, 2007-present
Associate Professor, Economics, The Open University, 2004-2007
Visiting Scientist, Economics, The Open University, 2003-2004
Lecturer, Economics, Tel-Aviv University, 1997-2003
Visiting Associate Professor, Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2000-2001
Visiting Lecturer, Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, 1996-1996
Post-doctoral Fellow, C.O.R.E, University of Louvain, 1994-1995

 
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Microeconomic Analysis (MECN-430-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Managerial Economics.

Among the topics this core course addresses are economic analysis and optimal decisions, consumer choice and the demand for products, production functions and cost curves, market structures and strategic interactions, and pricing and non-price concepts. Cases and problems are used to understand economic tools and their potential for solving real-world problems. Prerequisite: DECS-434, or concurrent registration.