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Ehud Kalai

James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences and Professor of Mathematics.
Director of the The Center for Game Theory and Economic Behavior

Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

AB (1967), University of California, Berkeley; MS (1971), Ph.D. (1972) Cornell University.

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Teaching and research affiliations at Tel Aviv University, University of Paris, Stanford University, The National University of Defense Technology at Hunan, New York University, and the California Institute of Technology.

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Decision, game, and economic theory at undergraduate, graduate and executive levels.
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  Outstanding Professor Awards in Executive Master Programs, 1987 & 1992.
Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1988- .
Oskar Morgenstern Research Professor, New York University, 1991.
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, CA Inst. of Technology, 1994.
   
Professional Leadership
  President of the Game Theory Society (2003-06).
Editor and Founder of Games and Economic Behavior (1988-) .
Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Game Theory (1984- ), Mathematical Social Sciences (1980-1993), Journal of Economic Theory (1980-88),
Member of the board of First Savings of America, a Savings & Loan Association (1986-89).
Chairman, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (1983-85).
Founding Organizer, Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture Series (1981).
   
Research Areas
  Bargaining/arbitration; strategic issues in markets & organizations; strategic learning, large strategic games.
   
Representative Publications
 

"Other Solutions to Nash's Bargaining Problem" (with M. Smorodinsky), Econometrica, 1975.
"Totally Balanced Games and Games of Flow" (with E. Zemel), Mathematics of Operations Research, 1982.
"Finite Rationality and Interpersonal Complexity in Repeated Games" (with W. Stanford), Econometrica, 1988.
"Rational Learning Leads to Nash Equilibrium" (with E. Lehrer), Econometrica, 1993.
“Large Robust Games,” Econometrica, 2004.

   
General / Consulting
  Strategic and statistical consulting including: Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, Arthur Anderson and Co., First Chicago, CCC Information Services, Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, and Israel defense forces.
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