Yuval Heller – CV (December 2017) PERSONAL INFORMATION Born: 02.02.1979.
Nationalities: Israel, Romania.
Marital status: Married to Renana, father to Yaara, Lior and Gali. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/yuval26/ Email:
[email protected],
[email protected]. Phone: Office: +972-(0)3-531-8931, Mobile/Whatsapp: +972-(0)52-5282-182, Skype: yuval-heller-work,
Fax: +972-3-738-4034,
Office: 226 (Building 504).
Address: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat Gan 5290002 Israel.
FIELDS OF INTEREST: Game theory, behavioral economics, evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.
APPOINTMENTS 2016 -
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University.
2015 -
Associate member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
PAST APPOINTMENTS 2014 - 2016
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oxford. Official Fellow in Economics, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
2011 – 2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Economics and Nuffield College, Oxford.
EDUCATION 2007-2011:
Ph.D., Mathematics, Tel Aviv University (supervised by Eilon Solan).
2001-2005:
M.Sc., Mathematics (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv University (supervised by Ehud Lehrer).
1997-2000:
B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics (magna cum laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as part of the “Talpiyot” distinguished academic program.
GRANTS European Research Council: Starting Grant, “Evolutionary Stability, Observability, and Efficiency,” grant number 677057, 2016-21 (Sole PI).
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PUBLICATIONS 1. Observations on cooperation (with Erik Mohlin), Review of Economic Studies,
forthcoming. 2. The endowment effect as a blessing (with Roee Teper and Sivan Frenkel),
International Economic Review, forthcoming. 3. Instability of belief-free equilibria, Journal of Economic Theory, 168, 261-286, 2017. 4. Rule rationality (with Eyal Winter), International Economic Review, 57(3), 2016. 5. Three steps ahead, Theoretical Economics, 10, 203-241, 2015. 6. Language, meaning, and games: A model of communication, coordination, and evolution:
Comment, American Economic Review, 104(6), 1857-63, 2014. 7. Overconfidence and diversification, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(1),
134-153, 2014. 8. Stability and trembles in extensive-form games, Games & Econ. Behav., 84, 132-136, 2014. 9. Justifiable choice, Games and Economic Behavior, 76(2), 375-390, 2012. 10. Communication, correlation and cheap talk in games with public information (with Eilon
Solan and Tristan Tomala), Games and Economic Behavior, 74(1), 222-234, 2012. 11. Sequential correlated equilibria in stopping games, Operations Research, 60, 209-224, 2012. 12. All-stage strong correlated equilibrium, Games and Econ. Behavior, 69(1), 184-188, 2010. 13. Minority-proof cheap-talk protocol, Games and Economic Behavior, 69(2), 394-400, 2010.
WORKING PAPERS (available at https://sites.google.com/site/yuval26/) 1. Social Learning and the Shadow of the Past (with Erik Mohlin).
Revision requested by the Journal of Economic Theory. 2. Coevolution of deception and preferences: Darwin & Nash meet Machiavelli (w. Erik Mohlin). 3. Commitments and partnerships (with David Sturrock). 4. Biased-belief equilibrium (with Eyal Winter).
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2016 – present Chair of STSM committee of COST Action GAMENET (CA16228). 2014 - present Editorial Board Member, Oxford Economic Papers. 2016
Scientific Committee of the 2016 European Meeting of the Econometric Society.
Selected refereeing activities: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Dynamic Games and Applications, Econometrica, Economica, Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, International Review of Economics and Finance , Israel Science Foundation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Population Economics, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Methods of -2-
Operations Research, Political Behavior, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics, Theory and Decision.
SELECTED DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES: 2017-present Organizer of the departmental seminar. 2016-present Coordinator of the departmental recruitment committee. 2015-2016
Organizer of the economic theory Seminar.
2014-2016
Member of the governing body of The Queen’s College.
2012-2013
Organizer of the discussion group on learning, networks and games.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016-present Lectures of Introduction to Microeconomics (Bar Ilan University). 2014 - 2016
Lectures of a graduate course in Microeconomics, and an elective undergraduate course in Game Theory. Tutorials of undergraduate courses in Microeconomics (Oxford).
2011-2014
Tutorials of graduate level Microeconomics (University of Oxford).
2007-2011
Tutorials of Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Tel Aviv University).
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2002-2007: Section Head in IAF operations-research branch (retired with rank of major). 2000-2002: Operations-research officer in the Israeli Air Force.
SELECTED AWARDS 2013: Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing – J. of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2010: Departmental award for excellence in teaching (Tel Aviv University). 2009: Departmental award for excellence in Ph.D. research (Tel Aviv University). 2005 & 2002: Israel Air Force commander’s excellence award for officers. 2000: "Talpiyot" program's excellent cadet award. 1998: Dean's list (undergraduate achievements, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 1997: First place in Israel National Youth Mathematics Olympics.
SUPERVISED RESEARCH STUDENTS 2015-2016 David Sturrock (M. Phil.; placement: researcher in IFS & Ph.D. student in UCL). 2017-
Kfir Tsuva (Ph.D.)
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SELECTED INVITED SEMINARS 2017: Technion (IIT). 2016: CERGE-EI, Lund University, Bar-Ilan University, IDC Herzliya. 2015: Bielefeld University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, University of Leicester, University of Bamberg, University of Cambridge, Tel Aviv University. 2014: Stockholm School of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California Los Angeles, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol. 2013: Paris Game Theory Seminar, University of Edinburgh, Royal Holloway, University of Essex, London School of Economics, University of Warwick, University of Manchester, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University. 2012: London School of Economics, University College London, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Birmingham. 2011: École Polytechnique, Southampton University, University of Oxford, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Technion (IIT). 2010: Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University, Haifa University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2009: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion.
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS 2017: workshop on Repeated Games: Theory and Experiments (Konstanz), Workshop on Partial Representation in Games (Gothenburg), Israeli Game Theory Conference (Technion), 6th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory (Erice), ORSIS annual conference (Bar Ilan), International Conference on Game theory (stony Brook). 2016: Congress of Game Theory Society (Maastricht). 2015: Biological Basis of Preference and Strategic Behavior Conference (Vancouver), Conference in honor of Abraham Neyman (Jerusalem). 2014: NSF/NBER/CEME GE Conference (Wisconsin-Madison), Transatlantic Theory Workshop (Paris), Risk Uncertainty and Decision Workshop (Warwick), CESS/Duke Conference on Reason and Decision Making (Oxford). 2012: Congress of Game Theory Society (Istanbul), Econometric Society European Meeting (Malaga), Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (Cambridge), Transatlantic Theory Workshop (Northwestern University). 2010: International Conference on Game Theory (Stony Brook). 2009: Risk Uncertainty and Decision Workshop (Duke University). 2008: Congress of Game Theory Society (Northwestern University), Israeli Game Theory Conference (Open Univ. of Israel). 2007: Israeli Game Theory Conference - plenary speaker (Open University of Israel), ORSIS Conference (Jerusalem).
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