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Stanley Reiter

Morrison Professor of Economics, Mathematics and Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics,University of Chicago (1955); M.A. in Economics, University of Chicago (1950), and A.B. with Honors in Economics, Queens College (1947).

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Northwestern University, 1967-present
Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department and Economics and Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences since 1967

California Institute of Technology, Winter 1985
Visiting Professor
University of Minnesota, 1983-4
Visiting Professor

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Economic Theory
Mathematics
Analytics for Corporate Planning
Strategy
Organization
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Grant (1961)
Krannert Distinguished Professor
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
   
Professional Leadership
  Associate Editor, Economic Design.
Associate Editor, Complex Systems.
Member Advisory Committee, Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation.
Chairman of NSF site visit team evaluating proposal from University of Arizona for Science & Technology Center, 1988.
Reviewer of Proposals for NSF Science & Technology Centers, 1988.
Reviewer for Information Technology & Organizations Program, National Science Foundation.
Reviewer for NSF Research proposals for the Physics Program, the Information Impact Program and the Economics Program.
Member of Visiting Review Committee, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.
Member of Visiting Review Committee, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 1990.
National Research Council--Chairman, Working Group on Markets and Organizations, Ten Year Outlook on Research.
   
Research Areas
  Information Aspects of the Theory of Economic Organization
   
Current Projects
  Writing two books, one on a model of computation involving human agents (with Kenneth Mount), and the other designing decentralized economic mechanisms to meet a specified performance criterion. Also Preparing a paper on a new approach to design of organizational structure.
   
  "Designing Economic Mechnanisms" (with L. Hurwicz) In production at Cambridge University Press.
   
Representative Publications
 

"Efficient Allocation," The New Palgrave, (1989).

"Final Report of the Working Group on Markets and Organizations, Ten Year Outlook in the Behavioral and Social Sciences," Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science, (1989).

"Decentralized Processes for Finding Equilibrium," with C. Simon Journal of Economic Theory, 56 (1992).

"A Lower Bound on Computational Complexity Given by Revelation Mechanisms," with K. Mount Economic Theory, 7 (1996).

"A Decentralized Process for Finding Equilibria Given by Linear Equations," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science ,91 (1994).

"A Modular Network Model of Bounded Rationality," with K. Mount, Organizations with Incomplete Information, forthcoming.

"On Coordination, Externalities, and Organization," Efficient Enforcement Systems for Environmental Regulations, forthcoming

"On Endogenous Economic Regulation," Economic Design, 2 (1996).
"Knowledge, Discovery and Growth," forthcoming in a book in honor of L. Rosenberg, edited by Tom Malone

"Interdependent Preferences and Groups of Agents," PJET (2001).

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