Professor
Joel Sobel
University of California, San Diego
Economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2010
Professor of Economics. Game theorist whose analysis of strategic information transmission defined the direction of subsequent research on communication in games. Work on bargaining with asymmetric information, credibility, equilibrium selection, evolution in communication games, and durable goods monopoly has also been influential. Recent work considers other-regarding preferences and information aggregation. Served as Editor of Econometrica.
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