David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Pages
I am of the age where my friends are writing their memoirs, so I thought I would take a stab at mine. It�s just the story of my brief athletic career, it�s called %26lt;a href="/general/accidental.pdf"%26gt;The Accidental Runner.%26lt;/a%26gt; I will preface it by saying I had three goals in life, all now sadly out of reach: to dunk the basketball on a full height rim, to break the four minute…
In early August we lost a beautiful mind. What %26lt;a href="/general/bryan-mentor.pdf"%26gt; Bryan Ellickson %26lt;/a%26gt; meant to me.
Those of us who have analyzed experimental data or watched participants in the laboratory have noticed that while some people seem to be inattentive and unpredictable others seem to be striving to create incentives for good social outcomes. I developed a formal model of noise, ethical, and selfish players in a new paper %26lt;a…
%26lt;img src="/images/rich3.png" alt="rich" width="120" height="100" style="vertical-align:middle"%26gt;My %26lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzDQvQRNhk"%26gt;inaugural lecture%26lt;/a%26gt; at Royal Holloway. You can view the slides %26lt;a href="/papers/slides/skeptical.28.pdf"%26gt; here.%26lt;/a%26gt;
Lee Ohanian and I have a new paper arguing that appeasement is under-appreciated: %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/archive/refs411694000000000159.pdf"%26gt;When to Appease and When to Punish: Hitler, Putin, and Hamas%26lt;/a%26gt;
Some thoughts about the future of the conflict in Ukraine on the %26lt;a href="https://lafonte.eui.eu/2023/11/03/war-of-attrition-what-next-for-ukraine/"%26gt;EUI Blog%26lt;/a%26gt;.
In September I am excited to be moving to Royal Holloway University of London to take up a %26lt;a href="https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/leverhulme-international-professorship-awarded-to-royal-holloway/"%26gt;Leverhulme International Professorship.%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/sociology/book.htm"%26gt;Our new book available for download:%26lt;/a%26gt; Levine, Mattozzi and Modica study how special interests such as cartels and lobbyists together with political parties influence our well-being. Drawing on existing and ongoing theoretical, empirical, and experimental research by the authors and others, the book develops a…
An interview by %26lt;a href="https://niklasanzinger.substack.com/p/ep-22-david-k-levine?utm_medium=email%26utm_campaign=cta%26utm_source=substack"%26gt;Niklas Anzinger%26lt;/a%26gt; about regulation, innovation, and intellectual property
An appreciation of Axel as a man and an economist %26lt;a href="/general/axel.htm"%26gt;here%26lt;/a%26gt;. My friend Roger Farmer has an appreciation %26lt;a href="https://www.rogerfarmer.com/rogerfarmerblog/2022/5/7/axel-leijonhufvud-september-6th-1933-may-2nd-2022"%26gt; here%26lt;/a%26gt;.
See the %26lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASwdlln88Mw"%26gt;video%26lt;/a%26gt; or read the %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/archive/refs4786969000000001766.pdf"%26gt;paper%26lt;/a%26gt;.
Roughly speaking the answer should be "nobody." A %26lt;a href="https://www.economicsobservatory.com/should-patents-on-covid-19-vaccines-be-waived"%26gt; short article %26lt;/a%26gt; by Michele Boldrin, Flavio Toxvaerd and myself.
A %26lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPE1G7FOpyg"%26gt;video of a discussion%26lt;/a%26gt; of role and importance of social science data analysis in combating the pandemic at Bocconi.
%26lt;img src="/general/astra.jpg" height=80%26gt; Peter Hansen and I think not: we have written an %26lt;a href="/general/no-pauses.pdf"%26gt;essay%26lt;/a%26gt; explaining why not If you agree please share it.
It is all about voter turnout. %26lt;a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/research/voter-turnout-peer-punishment"%26gt;Here is what 538 does not understand.%26lt;/a%26gt;
The modern field of industrial organization seems to have spent decades chasing itself into smaller and smaller circles while the real and serious problems of monopoly go ignored. James A. Schmitz, Jr. is trying to remedy this with his monumental indictment of modern monopoly: read his book %26lt;a href="https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr601.pdf"%26gt;Monopolies Inflict Great Harm on…
A %26lt;a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220522041352/http://www.covid-19-research-conduit.org/"%26gt;group of economists and scientists%26lt;/a%26gt; planning how to get us out of this mess.
Added a command line switch -ico which uses text labels in buttons as a workaround for a broken java installation on chromebooks.
%26lt;a href="/general/climate.68.pdf"%26gt;An essay%26lt;/a%26gt; detailing my conclusions from reading the economic literature on climate change.
%26lt;a href="https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=32040"%26gt;With James Corbett of the corbettreport%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;img src="https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_large/public/2022-07/3017877956_f987c3f623_b.webp?itok=XTa_pZkf" height=80%26gt; %26lt;a href="https://cepr.org/voxeu/blogs-and-reviews/war-and-peace-and-military-intervention" target="_blank"%26gt; and peace?%26lt;/a%26gt;
An economist %26lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-620913586/truth-is-golden-ep-203-there-is-something-funny-about"%26gt;speaks%26lt;/a%26gt; (me) . A nice interview by %26lt;a href="http://www.rvltr.studio/"%26gt; Arnaud Marthouret:%26lt;/a%26gt;. Arnaud runs an architectural photography business. Yes I do know some real people!
An article %26lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2018/05/11/elon-musk-toyota-and-case-open-patent-system-907503.html"%26gt;Newsweek%26lt;/a%26gt; about the concept and benefits of open patents: "open patents could bring monetary gain sooner. 'Even though you only have a share of the market,' Levine says, 'you have a share of a growing market rather than a larger share of a not-growing market.'"
%26lt;a href="http://economics.ucla.edu/2017/10/01/david-k-levine/"%26gt;As told to some fellow UCLA alums%26lt;/a%26gt;
A new essay %26lt;a href="/general/bayes.08.pdf"%26gt;Confirmatory Bias, the Bayesian Detective and an Inconvenient Truth%26lt;/a?
We have a %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/sociology/index.htm"%26gt;new website%26lt;/a%26gt; about the perils of populism discussing our research on democracy, corruption, lobbying and the behavior of political groups and how it may help.
I do not expect polls or pundits to predict elections. %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/neumann.3.htm"%26gt;Here is why.%26lt;/a%26gt;
An %26lt;a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1927713-economia-de-la-impaciencia-millones-de-unas-mordidas"%26gt;interview%26lt;/a%26gt; with Federico Weinschelbaum about our paper %26lt;a href="/papers/impatience.pdf"%26gt;Levine, D. K., S. Modica, F. Weinschelbaum and F. Zurita [2015]: "Evolving to the Impatience Trap: The Example of the Farmer-Sheriff Game," AEJ: Microeconomics, 7:…
A longtime friend and a great economist. See %26lt;a href="/general/davebackus.htm"%26gt;the Backus webpage%26lt;/a%26gt; for more information.
The %26lt;a href="/general/lloyd.htm"%26gt;call for papers is out%26lt;/a%26gt;
For economists concerned about Elsevier taking over SSRN and wishing to archive their papers in a repository that is indexed by RePEc (and hence Google): you may not be aware that RePEc has an archiving service the %26lt;a href="https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/"%26gt;Munich Personal RePEc Archive%26lt;/a%26gt;.
%26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/reading-list.htm"%26gt;The list of books we have been reading in our reading group.%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/tirole.htm"%26gt;My remarks last year when Jean received the honorary doctorate from the EUI.%26lt;/a%26gt;
Pointed the documentation to the correct site and fixed a bug that made it impossible to choose your browser in the jarnalshell.conf file.
In rough chronological order, the delusionists: %26lt;a href="https://medium.com/bull-market/time-for-a-rant-why-oh-why-cannot-we-have-better-economists-29f039da58e3#.pybc1qga8"%26gt;Poor Brad %26lt;/a%26gt; - thieves believe everyone is a thief, those incapable of rational reasoning believe nobody can reason rationally. By contrast, %26lt;a…
%26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/illusion.5.htm"%26gt;Explained here %26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/07/09/329895088/episode-551-the-case-against-patents"%26gt;An NPR program%26lt;/a%26gt; on patents based on an interview with Michele and me.
If you are a fan of classroom experiments, you should take a look at Walter Yuan's %26lt;a href="http://www.moblab.com/"%26gt;%26lt;img src="http://www.dklevine.com/images/moblab_logo.png" width=60%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt; Walter wrote most of the software for SSEL and CASSEL and with a lot of input from top experimentalists has designed some really good classroom software.
Nicolas Gruyer has a %26lt;a href="http://economics-games.com/"%26gt;very nice site %26lt;/a%26gt; with games you can use for economics in your classroom. Take a look!
Updated jarnal.sh and jarnalannotate.sh in the install file to run from any starting directory properly accounting for symbolic links.
To use this version you need the command line switch --legacy. It fixes numerous errors that have crept in over the years - basically the program no longer worked. This is the first version of JeX that will be ready for real work - without the --legacy option it will work with the %26lt;a href="http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/"%26gt;texMaths%26lt;/a%26gt; engine developed by Roland Baudin to…
%26lt;a href="/general/aandrreview.pdf"%26gt;Can we explain the world%26lt;/a%26gt; by extractive and inclusive political institutions?
%26lt;a href="/general/behavioral/doomed.htm"%26gt; %26lt;img src="/general/images/behavioralcover-small.jpg"%26gt; %26lt;b%26gt;%26lt;font color=red%26gt;Now available everywhere%26lt;/font%26gt;%26lt;/b%26gt; From %26lt;a href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/77"%26gt;Openbook Publishers%26lt;/a%26gt; - a new open access book about traditional and behavioral economics.%26lt;/a%26gt;
When the file is saved all the text in the file is saved in a separate document alltext.txt within the zipfile. This makes it easier to index text in the file, for example by using zipgrep.
Add commands and command line switches for making presentations using the collaborative features. See the documentation on the wiki for details.
Major changes: tabbed interface (set tabs=true in jarnalshell.conf) and recent files list (set keepbookmarks=integer %26gt; 0 in jarnalshell.conf). New tool for toolbar "wrench" suppresses display of main menu, when you click on the wrench tool the main menu drops down. Documention added: complete documentation of all command line switches. Bug fixes: won't start under windows; flickering screen…
Replaces most of the large icons (in "netbook" mode) with something more decent looking.
%26lt;a href="/general/behavioral/doomed.htm"%26gt;%26lt;img src="/general/behavioral/cover-small.jpg"%26gt; %26lt;b%26gt;%26lt;font color=red%26gt;NEW: Chapter 8 and 9 posted.%26lt;/font%26gt;%26lt;/b%26gt; Chapters of a new open access book about traditional and behavioral economics.%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;a href="http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/all.cfm"%26gt;White papers by economists about the future of economics.%26lt;/a%26gt;
Implements touch scrolling. The area to the right of the page can be used to drag the page up and down as well as fling it (the usual behavior with touch screens such as iOS or Android). When in full page mode (so no scrolling) the dragging operation becomes page up and page down.