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Dr
Harold (H.E.D.) Houba
Department of Econometrics De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV
Amsterdam The Tel:
+31 20 598 6014, Fax:
+31 20 598 6020 Office:
1A-22 (first floor, main building) |
Harold Houba is associate professor of Economic
Theory with teaching experience on several topics in Economic Theory such
as Auction Theory, Bargaining Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomics, Industrial
Organization, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics and Behavioural Game Theory. His major
research interest is bargaining theory with applications to environmental
economics, labour economics and the theory of contracts.
Since January 1, 2012, Harold Houba is the
chairman of FEWEB’s
honour programme.
Learn more about who Harold Houba really
is: (in Dutch)
Curriculum Vitae
Books and Monograms
Articles
Book Reviews
Recent Working Papers
Popular Publications
Curriculum Vitae
PhD
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December 1994 |
PhD. Thesis
titled Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining, defended at the University of
Tilburg in 1994. Supervisors were Prof.Dr. Aart de Zeeuw and Prof.dr.ir.
Gerard van der Laan. Besides the
supervisors, the defence committee consisted of Prof.Dr. Eric van Damme, Prof.Dr.
Joseph Plasmans, Prof.Dr.
Stef Tijs and foreign guest member Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin (Nobel laureate in Economics 2007). |
Affiliations
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August 2007 - Present |
Associate
Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics of the Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam. |
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March 2005 – August 2007 |
Assistant
Professor of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics of the Faculty
of economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam. |
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July 2001 – February 2005 |
Senior Researcher
affiliated to the Centre for World Food Studies (SOW-VU) at the Faculty of
Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam. Acitve with conducting applied and multi-disciplinary
research projects for river basin management. |
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January 1992 - June 2001 |
Assistant
Professor of Economic Theory at the Department of Econometrics, Faculty of
Economics and Business Administration, VU University of Amsterdam. |
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Autumn 1992 |
Exchange Visitor
at the Economics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA, on the invitation of Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin. |
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May 1989 - December 1991 |
PhD
student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University
of Tilburg. |
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September 1987 - December 1988 |
Teaching
Assistant at the Department of Econometrics and OR, Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration, University of Tilburg. |
Memberships
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2012 |
Guest
editor of the special issue “Sixty years of
Strategic Bargaining”, Journal of Applied Mathematics |
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2006 – present |
Associate
Editor of E-conomics (The Open-Access,
Open-Assessment E-Journal). |
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2000 - present |
Research
fellow Tinbergen Institute. |
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1997 - 2008 |
Fellow
Netherlands Network for Economics (NAKE) |
Books and
Monograms
1.
Harold Houba
and
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Harold
Houba, 1994, Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining, Ph.D
thesis,
Articles
1. Harold Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do and Xueqin Zhu, 2013, Saving a river: a joint management approach to the Mekong River Basin, Environment and Development Economics 18 (1) forthcoming.
2. Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2012, Market power in water markets, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 64, p.237-252.
3. Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2012, Competitive Prices as Profit-Maximizing Cartel Prices, Economics Letters 114, p.39-42.
4. Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2011, Extreme equilibria in the negotiation model with different time
preferences, Games and Economic Behavior
73, p.507–516.
5.
Harold Houba, Dinard van der Laan and Dirk
Veldhuizen, 2011, Endogenous entry in lowest-unique sealed-bid auctions, Theory and Decision 71, p.269-295.
6.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, Antitrust enforcement with price-dependent fines
and detection probabilities, Economics
Bulletin 30,
p.2017-2027.
7.
Harold Houba, 2008, Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in
Bilateral River Basin Management , International
Game Theory Review 10, p.257-278.
8.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2008, On Striking for a Bargain between Two
Completely Informed Agents. Economic
Theory 37, p.509-519.
9.
Harold Houba, 2008, On Continuous-Time Markov Processes in Bargaining. Economics Letters 100, p.280-283.
10.
Harold Houba, 2007, Alternating Offers in Economic Environments. Economics Letters 96, p.316-324.
11.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Different Time Preferences and
Non-Stationary Contracts in Negotiations, Economics
Letters 91, p.273-279.
12.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict
with Completely Informed States. Economics
Bulletin 3, p.1-6.
13.
Peter Albersen, Harold Houba and Michiel Keyzer, 2003, Pricing a
Raindrop in a Process-Based Model: General Methodology and a Case Study of the
Upper-Zambezi, Physics and Chemistry of
the Earth 28, p.183-192.
14.
Harold Houba and Gerard van der Laan, 2002, One-Seller/Two-Buyer
Markets with Buyer Externalities and (Im)Perfect
Competition, International Game Theory
Review 4, p.141-164.
15.
Xander Tieman, Gerard van der
Laan and Harold Houba, 2001, Bertrand Price Competition in a Social
Environment, De Economist 149, p.33-51.
16.
Harold Houba and Gijsbert van Lomwel, 2001, Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model
of Wage Bargaining, Economic Theory 17, p.81-99.
17.
Harold Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2000, Holdouts,
Backdating and Wage Negotiations, European
Economic Review 44, p.1783-1800.
18.
Harold Houba, Koos Sneek and Felix Várdy, 2000, Can Negotiations Prevent Fish Wars? Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
24, p.1265-1280.
19.
Xander Tieman, Harold Houba and
Gerard van der Laan, 2000, Cooperation in a Multi-dimensional Local Interaction
Model, Journal of Economics 71, p.1-30.
20.
Harold Houba, Xander Tieman and Rene Brinksma, 1998, The Nash Bargaining Solution for Decision
Weight Utility Functions, Economics
Letters 60, p.41-48.
21.
Wilko Bolt and Harold Houba,
1998, Strategic Bargaining in the Variable Threat Game, Economic Theory 11, p. 57-77.
22.
Harold Houba and Elaine Bennett, 1997, Odd Man Out: The Proposal Making
Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p.375-396.
23.
Harold Houba, 1997, The Policy Bargaining Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28, p.1-27.
24.
Harold Houba and Aart de Zeeuw,
1995, Strategic Bargaining for the Control of a Dynamic System in State-Space
Form, Group Decision and Negotiations
4, p.71-97.
25.
Harold Houba, 1993, An Alternative Proof of Uniqueness in
Non-Cooperative Bargaining, Economics
Letters 41, p. 253-256.
26.
Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 1991, Correction of the Material Balance
Equation in Dynamic Input-Output Models, European
Economic Review 35, p.1103-1108.
Book chapters
1.
Harold Houba and Aart de Zeeuw,
1991, Strategic Bargaining and Difference Games, in: "Dynamic Games in Economic Analysis, Lecture Notes in Control and
Information Sciences 157", Springer Verlag,
New York/Berlin, p.68-77.
2.
Harold Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do and Xueqin Zhu, 2013, Efficient Use of
the Mekong River Basin: a Joint Management Approach, in: Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport (eds.), 2013,
" Analyzing Global Environmental
Issues Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications",
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental
Economics, Routledge, New York.
Project reports
1.
Michiel Keyzer,
Ben Sonneveld, Bart van den Boom and Harold Houba,
Modeling the water economy of the Jordan River Basin. Final report for the
project: ‘Regional Integration and Resource Use in the Middle East: Oil, Water
and the Need for Peace’, Marseille: Euro-Mediterranean
Forum of Economic Institutes.
Book Reviews
1.
Abhinay Muthoo, 2001,
Bargaining Theory and Applications, in: Journal
of Economic Literature 39,
p.128-130.
2.
Herbert Gintis, 2001, Game Theory Evolving: A Problem Centered Introduction to Modeling
Strategic Interaction, in: The Economic
Journals Book Note.
3.
Paul Klemperer (ed.),
2000, The Theory of Auctions: Volumes I and II, in: The Economic Journals Book Notes.
Recent
Working Papers
Harold Houba, Yukihiko Funaki and Evgenia
Motchenkova, 2012, Market Power in Bilateral Oligopoly Markets with Nonexpandable Infrastructures. (TI Discussion Paper 12-xxx,
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam).
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2012, Closed-Form Solutions for the
Extreme Equilibria in a Class of Negotiation Games.
(TI Discussion Paper 12-xxx, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam).
Harold Houba, Roland Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2011, Stone
Age Equilibrium. (Revision of TI Discussion Paper 09-092, Tinbergen Institute,
Amsterdam).
P. Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2010, The Condorcet
Paradox revisted, TI discussion paper 10-026.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and
Quan Wen, 2009, The Effects of Leniency on Maximal Cartel Pricing. TI
Discussion Paper 09-081, Tinbergen Institute,
Harold Houba and Hans Kremers, 2009, Environmental Damage and
price Taking behavior by Firms and Consumers. TI Discussion Paper 09-029/1,
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and DIW discussion paper 878, DIW, Berlin.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and
Quan Wen, 2008, Maximal Cartel Pricing and Leniency Programs. TI Discussion
Paper 08-120/1, Tinbergen Institute,
Popular Publications
1.
Harold Houba driemaal geciteerd in: Hogere Besliskunde, Tonie Mudde,
Wetenschapsbijlage Volkskrant 10 maart 2012.
2.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen,
2009, The Maximal Damage Paradigm in Antitrust Regulation:
Is it Something New?, AENORM
16, gemeenschappelijke uitgave econometriestudieverenigingen
Kraket/VSAE, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, p.37-41.
3.
Harold Houba, 2007, Veilingtheorie
als soap, Econometristen in Actie
4, nr. 2, uitgave Alumni Vereniging Econometrie, Vrije
Universiteit, p.3-9.
4.
Wilko Bolt en Harold Houba,
2000, Een lager loon met terugwerkende kracht, Economische Statistische Berichten 85, nr. 4266, p.622-623.
5.
Harold Houba, 2000, Het veilen van huizen, Medium Econometrische Toepassingen 8, nr. 3, uitgave Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, p.4-6.
6.
Harold Houba, 2000, Veilen UMTS-frequenties
imiteert markt het beste, Forum, Volkskrant,
24 mei 2000.
7. Harold Houba, 1999,
Veilen van huizen is beste methode, Forum,
Volkskrant, 9 maart 1999.
8. Harold Houba en Gerard
van der Laan, 1998, Spelen met kostenallocaties en politieke machtsindices, in:
Onzware ernst en droomrigheid, bundel bij het
vijftigjarig bestaan van de Faculteit der Economische en Bedrijfswetenschappen,
Lemma, Utrecht, pp.90-96.
9.
H.Houba, 1996, Kat en muis
spelletjes tijdens CAO-onderhandelingen, in:
"Econometrie in Actie" (redactie H. Houba en A. Ridder), Uitgave
afdeling Econometrie, Vrije Universiteit, p.55-60.
This update
October 26, 2012