Kevin W. S. Roberts[2] FBA was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2020.

He was a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society.[3]

Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Education

Kevin Roberts gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1977.[4][5]

Fellowships

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1979), "The characterization of implementable choice rules", in Laffont, Jean-Jacques (ed.), Aggregation and revelation of preferences, Amsterdam New York New York: North-Holland Publishing Co. sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland, ISBN 9780444853264
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1982), "The limit points to monopolistic competition", in Mas-Colell, Andreu (ed.), Noncooperative approaches to the theory of perfect competition, New York: Academic Press, ISBN 9780124767508
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1985), "Cartel behaviour and asymmetric information", in Geroski, Paul; Phlips, Louis; Ulph, Alistair (eds.), Oligopoly, competition, and welfare, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK New York, New York, USA: B. Blackwell, ISBN 9780631144793
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ""Collusion" (definition)", in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1987), ""Enforcement" (definition)", in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1995), "Valued opinions or opinionated values: the double aggregation problem", in Basu, Kaushik; Suzumura, Kotaro; Pattanaik, Prasanta (eds.), Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198287896
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo Felli (2000), "Competition and hold-ups", in Stern, Nicholas H.; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Glennerster, Howard (eds.), Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima, vol. 22, London: London School of Economics and Political Science, and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, ISBN 9780753013991
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2000), "A reconsideration of the optimal income tax", in Myles, Gareth D.; Hammond, Peter (eds.), Incentives, organization, and public economics: papers in honour of Sir James Mirrlees, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199242290
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), "Irrelevant alternatives", in Basu, Kaushik; Kanbur, Ravi (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 231–249, ISBN 9780199239115
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (2009), "Social choice theory and the informational basis approach", in Morris, Christopher W. (ed.), Amartya Sen, New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 115, ISBN 9780521852913

Journal articles

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (December 1996). "Objective interpersonal comparisons of utility". Social Choice and Welfare. 14 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1007/s003550050053. S2CID 154546248.
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (August 1999). "Rationality and the LeChatelier principle". Journal of Economic Theory. 87 (2): 416–428. doi:10.1006/jeth.1999.2544.

2001–2010

Papers

  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Weitzman, Martin L. (1979). Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects (issue 234 of working paper). Massachusetts: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 5012947.
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Grodal, Birgit; Hahn, F.; Hildenbrand, W.; Polemarchakis, H. (1994). General equilibrium 40th anniversary conference: held at CORE on 3-5 June 1993 (discussion paper). Vol. 9482. Louvain: CORE - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Lopuvain. OCLC 258562027.
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S. (January 1999). Dynamic voting in clubs (Discussion paper). London: London School of Economics and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. OCLC 154666869.
  • Roberts, Kevin W.S.; Felli, Leonardo (2002). Does competition solve the hold-up problem? (Discussion paper). London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. OCLC 50900485.

References

  1. ^ Eeckhout, Jan (1998). Perfect matching and search in economic models (phd).
  2. ^ "VIAF". Roberts, Kevin W.S. Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  3. ^ Morris, Christopher W. (2009), "Contributors", in Morris, Christopher W. (ed.), Amartya Sen, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii, ISBN 9780521618069
  4. ^ "Kevin Roberts, Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics". Department of Economics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  5. ^ Roberts, Kevin W.S. (1977). Welfare theoretic social choice (D.Phil. thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43126191.
  6. ^ "Fellows of the Econometric Society as of May 2014". The Econometric Society. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  7. ^ "British Academy Fellows, ROBERTS, Professor Kevin". British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Governing Body". Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
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