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Hannu Vartiainen    

 

Professor of microeconomic theory

Director of Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER) and Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics (FDPE)

University of Helsinki                                    

                                     

Tel. +358 50 318 2417, mobile +358 40 720 6808

E-mail: hannu . vartiainen (a) helsinki . fi

Office address: HECER, Arkadiankatu 7, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

 

 

Research interests: game theory, mechanism design, decision theory, social choice

 

 

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Work in progress:

Teaching

 

 

Mechanism design without commitment

Hannu Vartiainen

 

Preferences for risk and time

Klaus Kultti and Hannu Vartiainen 

 

Cognitive equilibrium

Hannu Vartiainen 

 

Number of pure Nash equilibria in random n-player games

Klaus Kultti, Hannu Salonen, and Hannu Vartiainen

 

Optimal VCG mechanisms

Hervé Moulin and Hannu Vartiainen

 

Bargaining without commitment

Hannu Vartiainen  

 

Two player subgame perfect implementation: application to bargaining

Hannu Vartiainen

 

Published or accepted papers:

Dynamic stable set as a tournament solution

Hannu Vartiainen

Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming

 

Endogenous agenda formation processes with the one-deviation property

Hannu Vartiainen

Theoretical Economics 9:1, 2014

 

Auction design without commitment

Hannu Vartiainen  

Journal of the European Economic Association 11:2, 2013

 

Comparing all-pay auctions under complete information

Hannu Vartiainen

Review of Economic Design, accepted

 

Dynamic coalitional equilibrium

Hannu Vartiainen

Journal of Economic Theory 146:2, 2011

 

Logrolling in n-player bargaining

Hannu Vartiainen

Homo Oeconomicus 28:1, special volume in honor of Hannu Nurmi, 2011

 

On the existence of undominated elements in acyclic relations

Hannu Salonen and Hannu Vartiainen

Mathematical Social Sciences 60:3, 2010

 

Multilateral non-cooperative bargaining in a general utility space

Klaus Kultti and Hannu Vartiainen

International Journal of Game Theory 39:4, 2010

 

Simple model of secure public communication

Hannu Vartiainen

Theory and Decision 67:1, 2009

 

Bargaining with many players: a limit result

Klaus Kultti and Hannu Vartiainen

Economics Letters 101:3, 2009

 

Valuating payoff streams under unequal discount factors

Hannu Salonen and Hannu Vartiainen

Economics Letters 99:3, 2008

 

Repeated implementation and complexity considerations

Hannu Vartiainen

Review of Economic Design 11:4, 2008

 

Von Neumann-Morgenstern stable sets, discounting, and Nash bargaining

Klaus Kultti and Hannu Vartiainen

Journal of Economic Theory 137:1, 2007 

 

Von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set bridges time-preferences to the Nash solution

Klaus Kultti and Hannu Vartiainen

B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7:1 (Contributions), 2007

 

Collective choice with endogenous reference point

Hannu Vartiainen

Games and Economic Behavior 58:1, 2007

 

Subgame perfect implementation: a full characterization

Hannu Vartiainen

Journal of Economic Theory 133:1, 2007

 

Subgame perfect implementation of voting rules via randomized mechanisms

Hannu Vartiainen

Social Choice and Welfare 29:3, 2007

 

Nash implementation and the bargaining problem  

Hannu Vartiainen

Social Choice and Welfare 29:2, 2007

 

Implementing a profit sharing rule

Hannu Vartiainen

Economics Letters 90:3, 2006 

 

 

Edited books:

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Behavioral economics and its applications

Edited by Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen

Princeton University Press, 2007

 

Finance and incentives of the health care system

Edited by Antti Suvanto and Hannu Vartiainen

Government Institute for Economic Research, 2007