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Research. Current unpublished research papers are available here for downloading in Adobe PDF format. See also the curriculum vitae for references to published papers. Information for the public and scientific background on the theory of mechanism design from Nobelprize.org.

Teaching. Courses to be taught at the University of Chicago in 2007-2008:

• Economics 20600. Economics of Information. This course begins with a short section on uncertainty: risk aversion, contingent claims, gambling, and risk sharing. It then proceeds to the study of various adverse-selection and moral-hazard problems. Specific applications include job-market signaling, insurance markets, search models, and sovereign debt. Mathematical models are emphasized throughout the course. Fall 2007.
• Economics 30200b. Price Theory IIb. This half of the course begins with expected utility theory, and then introduces the fundamental ideas of game theory: strategic-form games, Nash equilibrium, games with incomplete information, extensive-form games, and sequential equilibrium.  Winter 2008, second half.

[Other recent courses: Econ 20700 (undergrad game theory), Econ 36101 (economic models of politics), Econ 30300b (economics of information).]

Books: Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict, by Roger B. Myerson (Harvard University Press, 1991).
Probability Models for Economic Decisions (Thomson Brooks/Cole Duxbury, 2005).

Software: Simtools and Formlist add-ins for Excel are available here for downloading here. Simtools.xla adds statistical functions and procedures for doing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis in spreadsheets. Formlist.xla is a simple auditing tool that adds procedures for displaying the formulas of any selected range.

Opinion: An op-ed (Feb 2003) about reasons for accepting international limits on American military power [reviewed in 2007 by David Henderson and Eric Black].  Comments on a book by George Soros (Feb 2004).  Essay (July 2007) about game-theoretic benefits of restraint in deterrent strategies (and original notes for a talk at Chicago Humanities Festival 2006). Jerusalem talk (May 2008).
Short essays about building democracy in Iraq: an early proposal (May 2003) written as the occupation began, a later discussion (June 2004) written as occupation ended, and a comment on the draft Iraqi constitution (Sept 2005). (Arabic version of the May 2003 proposal, published by Al Nahdhah, Baghdad.)  Remarks at Beth Emet, the Free Synagogue (June 2006). An essay on the US Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

More information: curriculum vitae, library bibliography, UC news, photo. Email: myerson @ uchicago.edu.

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