HANNU VARTIAINEN

Personal

Married with three children, Finnish citizen

Education

D.Soc.Sc, University of Helsinki (2000), Lic.Soc.Sc, University of Helsinki (1998), M.Sc, Helsinki School of Economics (1995)

Employment

Professor, Director of Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER) and Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics (FDPE), University of Helsinki 2010 – present

Professor of Economics, Turku School of Economics/University of Turku 2008 (on leave since 2010)

Acting Professor of Economics, Turku School of Economics 2007 – 2008

Scientific Director, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation 2001 – 2010 (part-time 2007 – 2010)

Post doc fellow, Academy of Finland 2000 – 2001

Post doc, University of Helsinki, RUESG 1999 – 2000

Visits

MIT, Economics Department, 2004 – 2005

University of Munich, Economics Department and Center of Economics, Feb - Apr 2002, Dec 2010 – Jan 2011

Northwestern University, Economics Department, 1997 – 1998

Teaching

Microeconomic theory, game theory, mechanism design, social choice and decision theory, information economics, market failures, general equilibrium, auctions

Awards

CESifo Fellow 2002

Doctor Primus, promotion 1996-2000, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

Econometric Society Winter Meeting 2000

ASLA-Fulbright Scholarship 1997-98

Professional service

Referee for American Economic Review, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Theoretical Economics, Cambridge University Press, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Economics Bulletin, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Finnish Economic Papers, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer Theory Library, Theory and Decision, Austrian Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Mathematical Reviews

Member of the program committee, ESEM 2008, ESEM 2011

Chair of the program committee, SMYE 2002 (250 presentations, 900 submissions), member SMYE 2001

Member of the Nomination Committee, European Economic Association 2003

Editor-in-Chief, Finnish Economic Journal (Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja) 2002 – 2005

Other

Vice director, Public Choice Research Center (Center of Excellence of the Academy of Finland), University of Turku/Turku School of Economics 2009 – 2010

Head of Economics Department, Turku School of Economics/University of Turku 2010

Member of the board, Turku School of Economics 2009 - 2010

Docent (domain: Game theory and decision theory), University of Turku 2007

Docent (domain: Economics of market institutions), Helsinki School of Economics 2006

Vice-chair of the board, Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics, 2010, member 2001 – 2010

Member of the board, Finnish Economic Association (Kansantaloustieteellinen/taloustieteellinen yhdistys) 2008 -

Chairman of the board, Finnish Society of Economic Research (Taloustieteellinen seura) 2002 – 2003, member 2001 – 2002

PUBLICATIONS

Edited books

Behavioral economics and its applications (edited, with Peter Diamond), 2007, Princeton University Press

Incentives and finance of health care (edited, with Antti Suvanto), 2007, VATT Publications A 45

Journal articles

Auction design without commitment, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming

Dynamic coalitional equilibrium, 2011, Journal of Economic Theory 146: 2, pp. 672-98

Logrolling in n-player bargaining, 2011, Homo Oeconomicus, Special Issue in Honor of Hannu Nurmi II, 28:1, pp. 187-202

(with Hannu Salonen) On the existence of undominated elements in acyclic relations, 2010, Mathematical Social Sciences 60:3, pp. 217-21

(with Klaus Kultti) Multilateral non-cooperative bargaining in a general utility domain, 2010, International Journal of Game Theory 29:4, pp.677-90

Simple model of secure public communication, 2009, Theory and Decision 67:1, pp. 101-22

Comparing all-pay auctions under complete information, Review of Economic Design, accepted

(with Klaus Kultti) Bargaining with many players: a limit result, 2009, Economics Letters 101:3, pp. 249-52

(with Hannu Salonen) Valuating payoff streams under unequal time preferences, 2008, Economics Letters 99:3, pp. 595-99

Repeated implementation and complexity considerations, 2008, Review of Economic Design 11:4, pp. 271-93

(with Klaus Kultti) Von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set, discounting, and Nash bargaining, 2007, Journal of Economic Theory 137:1, pp. 721-28

(with Klaus Kultti) Von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set bridges time-preferences to the Nash solution, 2007, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions) 7:1, Article 41

Subgame perfect implementation: a full characterization, 2007, Journal of Economic Theory 133:1, pp.111-26

Nash implementation and the bargaining problem, 2007, Social Choice and Welfare 29:2, pp. 333-51

Subgame perfect implementation of voting rules via randomized mechanisms, 2007, Social Choice and Welfare 29:3, pp. 353-67

Collective choice with endogenous reference outcome, 2007, Games and Economic Behavior 58:1, pp.162-70

Implementing a profit sharing rule, 2006, Economics Letters 90:3, pp.108-15

Working papers

One-deviation principle and endigenous political choice

Cognitive equilibrium

(with Klaus Kultti and Hannu Salonen) Asymptotic number of Nash equilibria in n-person games

One-deviation principle in coalition formation, ACE working paper 35, 2008

A conflict-free arbitration scheme in a large population, ACE working paper 34, 2008

Dynamic stable set, ACE working paper 32, 2007

Bargaining under no-commitment, University of Helsinki working paper 576, Sep 2003

Implementation with fixed preferences: partially informed planner, 2001

Two player subgame perfect implementation, a full characterization and application to bargaining, University of Helsinki working paper 2001 (revised 2006)

In Finnish

(with Kari Alho and Richard Baldwin) Professori Mika Widgrén in memoriam, 2009, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 104: pp. 356-60

Onko taloustiede ihmistiede? 2008, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 103: pp. 382-88

Nobel-palkinto mekanismin suunnittelun teorian kehittäjille, 2007, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 102: pp. 498-504

Terve ja epäterve kilpailu, 2004, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 100:4, pp. 343-47

Kansallista keskustelua taloudesta, 2004, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 100:1, pp. 343-47

Julkisen talouden tehtävät, 2003, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 99:4, pp. 357-60

Sen lauluja laulat, 2002, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 98:3, pp. 263-66

Nobel-palkinto asymmetrisen informaation tutkijoille, 2002, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 98:1, pp. 533-48

Mekanismin suunnittelun periaatteet, 2000, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 96:1, pp. 119-23