Department
of Econometrics and OR
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Dr Harold (H.E.D.)
Houba
Department
of Econometrics School
of Business and Economics De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel:
+31 20 598 6014, Fax:
+31 20 598 6020 Office:
9A-57 (ninth floor, main building) Visitors
cannot access my office directly. Instead, you first have to go to the
entrance of our department, near lecture room 9A-37, then call me to open the
door (a list including my number is available) My most
favourite proposition by Pythagoras: To multiply happiness, divide it
Who is Harold
Houba? Curriculum
Vitae
Books
and Monograms
Articles
Book
Reviews
Recent Working Papers
Popular Publications
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Who is
Harold Houba?
Personal information
Harold Houba is associate professor of
Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics and OR. He obtained his PhD
at Tilburg University in 1994. Since 1992 Harold has been affiliated with the
department of Econometrics and OR for most of the time with some exceptions.
Autumn 1992, he was an Exchange Visitor at the Economics Department of Harvard
University on the invitation of Prof.Dr. E.S. Maskin. And 2001 marked a four
year window when he was affiliated with the Centre for World Food Studies.
Harold is active as the coordinator of the SBE
honour programme.
Research
Harold Houba has a broad research interest
focused around economic applications of Game Theory. Sometimes, this requires addressing
deep methodological issues and making methodological contributions. Among his
major research themes are methods in Bargaining Theory, Market Power and
Economic Policy, International Environmental Agreements with applications to
cooperation and conflict in the Mekong River basin and the water economics of
international rivers. Within a one-year time window, he managed to publish book
chapters in a prestigious volume for practioners of Competition Policy and the
prestigious Handbook of Water Economics. In 2014, he co-organized the 9th
Tinbergen Institute Conference:
70
Years Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Teaching
Harold has very broad teaching experiences
on many topics in Economic Theory such as Auction Theory, Bargaining Theory,
Differential Games, Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, Microeconomics,
Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics and Behavioural
Game Theory. Students evaluate his courses well and often say to be inspired by
Harold’s enthusiasm. Courses taught are at the bachelor and master level, and
include courses for the Philosophy, Politics and Economics programme at the
Vrije Universiteit, the Tinbergen Institute and the former Netherlands Network
for Economics (NAKE).
Miscellaneous
Sommige
opiniestukken van rond de millennium wisseling zijn nog steeds actueel in
overspannen huizenmarkten, zie o.a. Veilen
van huizen is beste methode (Forum, Volkskrant, 9 maart 1999). Meer links zijn
te vinden aan het einde van deze pagina. Leer meer over de persoon achter deze
website: De docent vertelt
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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April 2020 – Present |
Associate Professor
of Economic Theory at the department of Economics, School of Business and
Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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August 2007 – April 2020 |
Associate Professor
of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics, School of Business and
Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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March 2005 – August 2007 |
Assistant Professor
of Economic Theory at the department of Econometrics, School of Business and
Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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July 2001 – February 2005 |
Senior Researcher
affiliated to the Centre for World Food Studies (SOW-VU) at the School of
Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Active 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, School of Business and
Economics, Vrije Universiteit 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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2006 – present |
Associate Editor of
E-conomics (The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal). |
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2000 - present |
Research fellow
Tinbergen Institute. Co-organizer of the
9th Tinbergen Institute Conference in 2014: |
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1997 - 2008 |
Fellow Netherlands
Network for Economics (NAKE) |
Books and Monograms
1.
Harold Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2002, Credible Threats in Negotiations -
A Game Theoretic Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
2.
Harold Houba, 1994, Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining, PhD
thesis, Tilburg University.
Articles
Recent publications
and working papers are open-access and free to download and can be found at publications
at PURE portal of the Vrije Universiteit, to access publications that are
unavailable contact one of the authors
1.
P. Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2021, Costless Delay in
Negotiations, Economic Theory, ??, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-021-01373-6
2.
Harold Houba, Duozhe Li and Quan Wen, 2022, Bargaining with Costly
Competition for the Proposing Right. Journal of Mathematical Economics 98,
102558, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102558
3.
Harold Houba, Yukihiko Funaki and Evgenia Motchenkova, 2020, Market
Power in Bilateral Oligopoly Markets with Nonexpandable Infrastructures. International
Journal of Game Theory 49, 525-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-019-00695-z
4.
Aaron Kamm and Harold Houba, 2019, A Bargaining Experiment with
Asymmetric Institutions and Preferences, Social
Choice and Welfare 52, 329-351.
5.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2018, Legal
Principles in Antitrust Enforcement, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 859-893.
6.
Harold Houba, Roland Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2017, Pareto
Efficiency in the Jungle, Review of Economic
Design 21, 153–161.
7.
P. Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2016, The
Condorcet Paradox Revisited, Social
Choice and Welfare 47, 141-186.
8.
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2016, Sustainable
Agreements on Stochastic River Flow, Resource and Energy Economics 44, 92-117.
9.
Harold Houba, Gerard van der Laan and Yuyu Zeng, 2015, International
Environmental Agreements for River Sharing Problems, Environmental and Resource Economics 62, 855-872.
10.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2015, The Effects of Leniency on Cartel Pricing, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
15, 351-390.
11.
Harold Houba, Gerard van der Laan and Yuyu Zeng, 2014, Asymmetric Nash
Solutions in the River Sharing Problem, Strategic
Behavior and the Environment 4,
321-360.
12.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2014, Backward induction and unacceptable offers, Journal of Mathematical Economics 54,
151-156.
13.
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,
93-103.
14.
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2012, Market power in water markets, Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management 64, p.237-252.
15.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2012, Competitive prices
as profit-maximizing cartel prices, Economics
Letters 114, p.39-42.
16.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2011, Extreme
equilibria in the negotiation model with different time preferences, Games and Economic Behavior 73, p.507–516.
17.
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.
18.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan
Wen, 2010, Antitrust enforcement with
price-dependent fines and detection probabilities, Economics Bulletin 30, p.2017-2027.
19.
Harold
Houba, 2008, Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in Bilateral River
Basin Management , International Game
Theory Review 10,
p.257-278.
20.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2008, On Striking for a Bargain between Two Completely
Informed Agents. Economic Theory 37,
p.509-519.
21.
Harold
Houba, 2008, On Continuous-Time Markov Processes in Bargaining. Economics Letters 100,
p.280-283.
22.
Harold
Houba, 2007, Alternating Offers in Economic Environments. Economics Letters 96,
p.316-324.
23.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Different Time Preferences and Non-Stationary
Contracts in Negotiations, Economics
Letters 91, p.273-279.
24.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely
Informed States. Economics Bulletin 3,
p.1-6.
25.
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.
26.
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.
27.
Xander
Tieman, Gerard van der Laan and Harold Houba, 2001, Bertrand Price Competition
in a Social Environment, De Economist
149, p.33-51.
28.
Harold
Houba and Gijsbert van Lomwel, 2001, Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model
of Wage Bargaining, Economic Theory 17,
p.81-99.
29.
Harold
Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2000, Holdouts, Backdating and Wage Negotiations, European Economic Review 44,
p.1783-1800.
30.
Harold
Houba, Koos Sneek and Felix Várdy, 2000, Can Negotiations Prevent Fish Wars? Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
24, p.1265-1280.
31.
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.
32.
Harold
Houba, Xander Tieman and Rene Brinksma, 1998, The Nash Bargaining Solution for
Decision Weight Utility Functions, Economics
Letters 60, p.41-48.
33.
Wilko
Bolt and Harold Houba, 1998, Strategic Bargaining in the Variable Threat Game, Economic Theory 11,
p. 57-77.
34.
Harold
Houba and Elaine Bennett, 1997, Odd Man Out: The Proposal Making Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28,
p.375-396.
35.
Harold
Houba, 1997, The Policy Bargaining Model, Journal
of Mathematical Economics 28,
p.1-27.
36.
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.
37.
Harold
Houba, 1993, An Alternative Proof of Uniqueness in Non-Cooperative Bargaining, Economics Letters 41,
p. 253-256.
38.
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.
Alan
Basist, Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, David Bachiochi, and Harold Houba,
2018, Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Crop Yield
Prediction and River Resource Planning, in: Lipper, L., McCarthy, N.,
Zilberman, D., Asfaw, S. and Branca, G. (Eds.), “Climate Smart
Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change”, Natural Resource
Management and Policy 52, Springer Verlag, p.77-104.
Open
access: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5
2.
Erik
Ansink and Harold Houba, 2015, The Economics of Transboundary River Management,
in: Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe (eds.) “The
Handbook of Water Economics”, Edgar Elgar Publishers, p.434-465.
3.
Harold
Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2014, The Role of Legal Principles in
the Economic Analysis of Competition Policy, in: Martin Peitz and Yossi Spiegel
(eds.) "Analysis of Competition
Policy and Sectoral Regulation", World Scientific, New
Jersey/London/Singapore, p.389-421.
4.
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, p.186-202.
5.
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.
Project reports
1.
Michiel
Keyzer, Ben Sonneveld, Bart van den Boom and Harold Houba, 2005, 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
Recent
working papers are free to download and can be found at publications
at PURE portal of the Vrije Universiteit.
Brian Blankespoor, Alan
Basist, Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Harold Houba and Neil Thomas, 2014,
Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on International
River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong Basins, TI Discussion Paper
14-005.
Harold
Houba, Kim Hang Pham Do and Xueqin Zhu, 2014, Capacity Choice
of Dams under Rivalry Use and Externalities, TI Discussion Paper 14-143.
Harold Houba, Roland
Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2013, Saving Private Pareto. TI Discussion Paper
13-053 (Revision of TI Discussion Paper
09-092).
Harold Houba and Hans
Kremers, 2009, Environmental Damage and Price Taking Behavior by Firms and
Consumers. TI Discussion Paper 09-029 and DIW discussion paper 878, DIW,
Berlin.
Popular
Publications
1.
Harold Houba, 2016, Spelen Topsporters Nash? StatOR
17, Juli 2016, 23-25.
StatOR is
een uitgave van de Vereniging voor Statistiek en Operationele Research, voor
meer informatie zie http://www.vvs-or.nl
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, 2001, Veilingtheorie als soap, Econometristen in Actie 4, 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.
Bijdragen aan:
-
Hogere
Besliskunde (Intro
+ vervolg),
Toni Mudde, Wetenschapsbijlage, Volkskrant, maart 2012.
-
Een
Veiling is ook een Spel, De verdieping, Trouw, August 2000
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