Directeur de Recherche
CNRS, Paris-Jourdan
Sciences Economiques,
e-mail: Olivier "dot" Gossner
"@" ens "another dot" fr
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Education
- 2004 :
Habilitation à diriger les recherches, Françoise Forges
coordinator,
"Une approche stratégique de l'économie de l'information"
(pdf)
- 1996 : Ph.D. Université
Paris
6 - Pierre et Marie Curie, Sylvain
Sorin supervisor. "Jeux répétés et
mécanismes de
communication", summa cum laude
- 1989-1993: Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris,
Mathematics
Positions
Visiting Positions
- 2005-2008: Invited Full Professor, MEDS,
Northwestern University
- 2004-2005: Fellow of the Institute of
Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
- April 2004: Centro de Modelamiento Matematico,
Universidad de Chile
- Winter 2002: Invited Associate
Professor, MEDS,
Northwestern University
- January 2000: Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
- 1997-1998: CORE Fellow.
Research fields
- Game theory
- Economics of information, bounded
rationality and complexity
Publications
Articles
- "When is the individually
rational payoff in a repeated game equal to the minmax payoff?",
with Johannes Hörner, to appear in Journal of Economic Theory (pdf)
- "Ability and knowledge", to appear in Games and Economic Behavior (pdf)
- "Information independence and common
knowledge", with Ehud Kalai and Robert Weber, Econometrica, 77: 1317–1328, 2009 (pdf)
- "Informationally optimal correlation",
with Rida Laraki and Tristan Tomala, to appear in Mathematical
Programming B. in Honor of Alfred Auslender (abstract
and pdf)
- "Entropy bounds on Bayesian learning",
with Tristan Tomala, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 44:
24-32, 2008 (abstract
and
pdf)
- "Secret correlation in repeated games
with imperfect monitoring", with Tristan Tomala, Mathematics of
Operations Research, 32: 413-424, 2007 (abstract
and
pdf)
- "Optimal use of communication
resources", with Penélope Hernàndez and Abraham Neyman, Econometrica, 74:
1603-1636, 2006 (abstract
and
pdf)
- "Empirical distributions of beliefs
under imperfect observation", with Tristan Tomala, Mathematics of
Operations Research, 31: 13-30, 2006 (abstract
and
pdf)
- "Coordination through De Bruijn
sequences", with Penélope Hernàndez, Operations
Research Letters, 34: 17-21 2006 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Informational cascades elicit private
information", with Nicolas Melissas, International Economic Review,
47: 297-325, 2006 (abstract
and pdf)
- "On the consequences of behavioural
adaptations in the cost-benefits analysis of road safety measures'',
with Pierre Picard, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 7:
577-599, 2005 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Dynamiques
de Communication", with Penélope Hernandez and Abraham Neyman, Revue
Économique, 55: 509-516, 2004 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Positive value of information in
games'', with Bruno Bassan, Marco Scarsini et Shmuel Zamir, International
Journal of Game Theory, 32: 17-31, 2003 (abstract
and pdf)
- "On the complexity of coordination",
with Penélope Hernàndez, Mathematics of Operations
Research,
2003, 28: 127-141 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Strategic learning in games with
symmetric information'', with Nicolas Vieille, Games and Economic
Behavior, 2003, 42: 25-47 (abstract
and pdf)
- "How to play with a biased coin?'',
with Nicolas Vieille, Games and Economic Behavior,
2002, 41: 206-226 (abstract and
pdf)
- "Repeated communication through the
`and' mechanism'', with Nicolas Vieille, International Journal of
Game Theory, 2001, 30 : 41-61 (abstract and pdf)
- "Comparison of information
structures'', Games and Economic Behavior, 2000, 30
: 44-63 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Secure protocols – or how
communication generates correlation", Journal of Economic Theory,
1998 83 : 69--89 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Protocoles
de communication robustes", Revue Économique, 1997 48
:
685-695 (abstract
and pdf)
- "Overlapping generations games with
mixed strategies", Mathematics of Operations Research, 1996 21
: 477-486 (abstract
and
pdf)
- "The folk theorem for finitely
repeated games with mixed strategies", International Journal of
Game Theory, 1995 24 : 95-107 (abstract
and pdf)
Book Chapters
- "Repeated Games", with Tristan Tomala,
in Meyers, Robert (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science,
Vol x, pp xx–xxx. Springer New York. (pdf)
Working papers
- "A reasoning
approach to knowledge, introspection, and unawareness", with Elias
Tsakas (pdf)
- ''Evolutionary
Foundations of Rational Choice'', with Christoph Kuzmics (pdf)
- “Testing
rationality on primitive knowledge”, with Elias Tsakas (pdf)
- "Repeated games played by
cryptographically sophisticated players'' (pdf)
- "Sharing a
long secret in a few public words'' (pdf)
- "Online matching pennies", with
Penélope Hernàndez and Abraham Neyman (pdf)
Research in
progress
- "Private monitoring without
conditional independence", with Kyna Fong, Johannes Hörner, and
Yuliy
Sannikov
- "The value of information in zero-sum
games'', with Jean-Francois Mertens (abstract in pdf)
- "Bounds on the value of information in
repeated decision problems", with Tristan Tomala
- "Measuring the value of information",
with Abraham Neyman and Penélope Hernandez
- "The controlled biased coin problem",
with Tristan Tomala (pdf)
- "An invitation to online information
transmission", with Penélope Hernàndez and Abraham Neyman
(pdf)
Editorship
- Associate editor, Theory and Decision,
2006-
- Associate editor, Mathematics of
Operations Research,
2008-