Kevin W. S. Roberts

FBA
NationalityBritish
Academic career
InstitutionNuffield College, University of Oxford
FieldMicroeconomic theory, welfare economics and social choice theory
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Essex
Academic
advisors		James Mirrlees
Doctoral
students		Daron Acemoglu, Thomas Piketty, Jan Eeckhout[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Notes

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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