Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques,

UMR  CNRS - EHESS - ENPC - ENS

e-mail: Olivier "dot" Gossner "@" ens "another dot" fr

 

 

 

 

• Vitae in pdf format as of 07/09
  

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• Profile
• Research

Profile

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

• 2006- : Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Paris School of Economics
• 2008- : Professor, London School of Economics
  
• 1998-2006: Chargé de Recherche CNRS
• 1997-2002: CORE fellow, Université Catholique de Louvain
• 1995-1996: Human Capital Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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

Research fields

• Game theory
• Economics of information, bounded rationality and complexity

Publications 

Articles

1. "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)
2. "Ability and knowledge", to appear in Games and Economic Behavior (pdf)
3. "Information independence and common knowledge", with Ehud Kalai and Robert Weber, Econometrica, 77: 1317–1328, 2009 (pdf)
   
4. "Informationally optimal correlation", with Rida Laraki and Tristan Tomala, to appear in Mathematical Programming B. in Honor of Alfred Auslender (abstract and pdf)
5. "Entropy bounds on Bayesian learning", with Tristan Tomala, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 44: 24-32, 2008 (abstract and pdf)
6. "Secret correlation in repeated games with imperfect monitoring", with Tristan Tomala, Mathematics of Operations Research, 32: 413-424, 2007 (abstract and pdf)
7. "Optimal use of communication resources", with Penélope Hernàndez and Abraham Neyman, Econometrica, 74: 1603-1636, 2006 (abstract and pdf)
8. "Empirical distributions of beliefs under imperfect observation", with Tristan Tomala, Mathematics of Operations Research, 31: 13-30,  2006  (abstract and pdf)
9. "Coordination through De Bruijn sequences", with Penélope Hernàndez, Operations Research Letters, 34: 17-21 2006 (abstract and pdf)
10. "Informational cascades elicit private information", with Nicolas Melissas, International Economic Review, 47: 297-325, 2006  (abstract and pdf)
11. "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)
12. "Dynamiques de Communication", with Penélope Hernandez and Abraham Neyman, Revue Économique,  55: 509-516, 2004  (abstract and pdf)
13. "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)
14. "On the complexity of coordination", with Penélope Hernàndez, Mathematics of Operations Research, 2003, 28: 127-141 (abstract and pdf)
15. "Strategic learning in games with symmetric information'', with Nicolas Vieille, Games and Economic Behavior,  2003, 42: 25-47 (abstract and pdf)
16. "How to play with a biased coin?'', with Nicolas Vieille, Games and Economic Behavior, 2002, 41: 206-226 (abstract and pdf)
17. "Repeated communication through the `and' mechanism'', with Nicolas Vieille, International Journal of Game Theory, 2001,  30 : 41-61 (abstract and pdf)
18. "Comparison of information structures'',  Games and Economic Behavior, 2000, 30 : 44-63 (abstract and pdf)
19. "Secure protocols – or how communication generates correlation", Journal of Economic Theory, 1998 83 : 69--89 (abstract and pdf)
20. "Protocoles de communication robustes", Revue Économique, 1997 48 : 685-695 (abstract and pdf)
21. "Overlapping generations games with mixed strategies", Mathematics of Operations Research, 1996 21 : 477-486 (abstract and pdf)
22. "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-