Associate Professor
Matthew Ryan
Affiliations
Department
of Economics and Centre for
Mathematical Social Science
University of Auckland
Education
BA (Economics and Philosophy),
University of Auckland, 1990.
BCA
(Hons) in Economics, VUW, 1991.
PhD
(Economics), Yale, 1998.
Research
Interests
Published
Research
“Verifiability
and Neologism-Proofness in a Sender-Receiver Game”
(with Rhema Vaithianathan) Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization 79(3) (2011): 256-262.
“Optimism and Firm Formation” (with Luca Rigotti and Rhema Vaithianathan) Economic Theory 46(1)
(2011): 1-38.
“Mixture
Sets on Finite Domains” Decisions in
Economics and Finance 33(2)
(2010): 139-147.
“Coasian Dynamics in Repeated English Auctions” (with
“Orders
on Subsets Rationalised by Abstract Convex Geometries” (with
“Risk Aversion in RDEU” Journal of
Mathematical Economics 42(6) (2006): 675-697.
“Auctions
with Options to Re-Auction” (with Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii
and Flávio Menezes) International Journal of
Economic Theory 2 (2006): 17-39.
“Reserve
Price Commitments in Auctions” (with Flávio Menezes) Economics
Letters 87(1) (2005): 35-39.
“Adverse Selection and Insurance Contracting:
A Rank-Dependent Utility Analysis” (with Rhema Vaithianathan),
“Medical
Insurance with Rank-Dependent Utility” (with Rhema Vaithianathan) Economic
Theory 22 (2003): 689-698.
“What
Do Uncertainty-Averse Decision-Makers Believe?” Economic Theory 20
(2002): 47-65.
“Violations
of Belief Persistence in Dempster-Shafer Equilibrium”
Games and Economic Behavior 39 (2002):
167-174.
Surveys,
Discussions and Other Provocations
“Generalizations of SEU: A Geometric
Tour of Some Non-Standard Models”
“Mathematicians
as Great Economists: John Forbes Nash, Jr.” Agenda 9 (2002):
121-134.
Book Reviews
Review of “Information
Economics” by Urs Birchler
and Monika Bütler, New Zealand
Economic Papers 44 (2010): 113-117.
Review of “The Theory of Incentives:
The Principal-Agent Model” by Jean-Jacques Laffont
and David Martimort, Economic
Record 79 (2003): 154-156.
Unpublished Working Papers
“Additivity and Uncertainty” (with Alan Rogers)
“Path
Independent Choice and the Ranking of Opportunity Sets”
“Stochastic
Choice and Expected Utility”
“Ambiguity Aversion, Entrepreneurship and Innovation” (with Luca Rigotti and Rhema
Vaithianathan). Previous versions appeared as UC Berkeley Economics
Department WP E01-296 and CentER DP 2001-21 under the
title “Entrepreneurial Innovation”. [REVISION IN PROGRESS]
“Truth-In-Advertising Laws and Pharmaceutical Promotion” (with
Work
in Progress
“Lower Probabilities of Centrally Symmetric
Sets” (with Alan Rogers)
“Abstract
Convexity for Discrete Sets: Theory and Economic Applications”. (Some notes
and slides
on this topic.)
“Default
and Renegotiation in Tenders for Public Infrastructure Projects” (with Flávio Menezes)
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02/22/12.