Olivier BOCHET

Assistant Professor of Economics, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
Research Fellow, CORE (Belgium)

PhD Brown University (USA), 2004

Postal Address:

Department of Economics, Maastricht University
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

Phone: +31-4338-83649

Email: o.bochet "at"algec.unimaas.nl

CV: download

Research Interests:
Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Social Choice Theory

Publications:

  1. Communication and Punishment in Voluntary Contribution Experiments (with Toby Page and Louis Putterman)
      Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 60, Issue 1, May 2006, Pages 11-26  
     
  2. Nash Implementation with Lottery Mechanisms
      Social choice and Welfare, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 111-125
     
  3. Strategic manipulations of multi-valued solutions in economies with indivisibilities (with Toyotaka Sakai)
      Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 53-68
     
  4. Switching from Complete to Incomplete Information
      Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 43, Issue 6, August 2007, Pages 735-748
     
  5. Implementation of the Walrasian Correspondence: The Boundary Problem (pdf)
      International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 36, Issue 2, October 2007, Pages 301-316
     
  6. Not Just Babble: Opening the Black Box of Communication in a Voluntary Contribution Experiment (with Louis Putterman), (pdf)
      Forthcoming, European Economic Review (available online)
     

Working Papers and Papers under Review:
 

  1. Secure Implementation in Allotment Economies (with Toyo Sakai),  (pdf) March 2007
      Revision requested by Games and Economic Behavior
     
  2. Maximal Domains for Strategy-Proof and Maskin Monotonic Social Choice Functions (with Ton Storcken), (pdf), Revised version August 08
      Revison requested by Social Choice and Welfare 
     
  3. On the Connections between Monotonicity and Strategy-Proofness (with Bettina Klaus) (Coming soon!)
     
  4. Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities (with Sidartha Gordon), (pdf) October 2007 (Revised april 2008)
    Under Review
     
  5. Dynamic Recontracting Processes with Multiple Indivisible Goods (with Bettina Klaus and Markus Walzl), (pdf) May 2007
    Under Review
     
  6. Preference Manipulations Lead to the Uniform Rule (with Toyo Sakai), (pdf) March 2007
    Under Review
     
  7. On the Connections Between Walrasian and Rational Expectations Equilibria, (pdf) March 2007
       Under Review 
     
  8. Virtual Nash Implementation with Admissible Supports (with Francois Maniquet), (pdf)) Revised version, August 2006
      Under Review
     
  9. Nash Implementation in Stochastic Social Choice (with Toyotaka Sakai), (pdf)
      Under Review  
     
  10. Equal-Budget choice Equivalent Solutions in Exchange Economies, (pdf) Updated May 2006
          Under Review
     
  11. Maximal Domains for Maskin Monotone and Anonymous Choice Rules (with Ton Storcken), work in progress
     

  • Teaching:

    Analyse de la décision (Game Theory course, 4th year undergrad)  TP1 ReponsesTP1 TP2 ReponsesTP2 Exam
    Economie de l'information et de l'uncertain (Risk and Uncertainty course, 3rd year undergrad)  Homework1 AnswerHw1 Homework2 AnswerHw2
    Mathematiques pour l'économie III (Mathematics for Economists course 2nd year undergrad)  TP1  TP2 Matrices TP3 TP4 TP5 TP6 Exam1 Exam2 Kuhn-Tucker
    Colletives Choices I and II (Phd course, joint with Francois Maniquet), Reading List+Papers

    Links: in random order of importance

    Alexis Dariel, Talented photographer. Besides, he's also my brother in law!
    Francois Maniquet, CORE
    Toyotaka Sakai, Yokohama University
    Herakles Polemarchakis    , Brown University
    Roberto Serrano, Brown University
    Rajiv Vohra, Brown University
    Christopher Chambers, Caltech
    Justin Leroux, HEC Montreal
    Sidartha Gordon, University of Montreal
    Amute    , On A Hundred Dry Trees, Belgian artist Jerome Deuson has taken what originally was probably a pretty guitar album and deconstructed it into a series of mini-symphonic ambient washes. Fantastic Work!
    Raster Noton, German label from god Alva Noto!

    12k, american minimalist label --along with the excellent label Line
    Frank Bretschneider, One of my favorite electronic artist
    Miss Kittin, Well, I have to support her because she's from my hometown, Grenoble (France), capital of the alps