Department
of Econometrics and OR
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Dr
Harold (H.E.D.) Houba
Department of Econometrics 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
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Harold Houba is associate professor of Economic
Theory at the department of Econometrics and OR. He obtained his PhD at
Tilburg University in 1994. Harold has very broad teaching experiences on many
topics in Economic Theory such as Auction Theory, Bargaining Theory, Game
Theory, Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Behavioural Economics,
Neuro-economics and Behavioural Game Theory. Among his major research themes
are market power, bargaining theory and the water economics of international
rivers.
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.
In 2014, he co-organized the 9th
Tinbergen Institute Conference:
70
Years Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Since January 1, 2012, Harold Houba
coordinates the SBE
honour programme.
Learn more about the person who Harold
Houba really is: De docent vertelt
(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. 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, 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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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
are open-access and free to download, to access older publications contact one
of the authors
1.
Aaron Kamm and Harold Houba, 2019, A
Bargaining Experiment with Asymmetric Institutions and Preferences, forthcoming
Social Choice and Welfare.
2.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2018, Legal
Principles in Antitrust Enforcement, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 859-893.
3.
Harold Houba, Roland Luttens and Hans-Peter Weikard, 2017, Pareto Efficiency
in the Jungle, Review of Economic
Design 21, 153–161.
4.
P. Jean-Jacques Herings and Harold Houba, 2016, The
Condorcet Paradox Revisited, Social
Choice and Welfare 47, 141-186.
5.
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2016, Sustainable
Agreements on Stochastic River Flow, Resource and Energy Economics 44, 92-117.
6.
Harold Houba, Gerard van der Laan and Yuyu Zeng, 2015, International
Environmental Agreements for River Sharing Problems, Environmental and Resource Economics 62, 855-872.
7.
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.
8.
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.
9.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2014, Backward induction and unacceptable offers, Journal of Mathematical Economics 54,
151-156.
10.
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.
11.
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba, 2012, Market power in water markets, Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management 64, p.237-252.
12.
Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2012, Competitive prices as profit-maximizing
cartel prices, Economics Letters 114, p.39-42.
13.
Harold Houba and Quan Wen, 2011, Extreme
equilibria in the negotiation model with different time preferences, Games and Economic Behavior 73, p.507–516.
14.
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.
15.
Harold Houba, Evgenia
Motchenkova and Quan Wen, 2010, Antitrust enforcement with price-dependent
fines and detection probabilities, Economics
Bulletin 30,
p.2017-2027.
16.
Harold
Houba, 2008, Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in Bilateral River
Basin Management , International Game
Theory Review 10,
p.257-278.
17.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2008, On Striking for a Bargain between Two Completely
Informed Agents. Economic Theory 37,
p.509-519.
18.
Harold
Houba, 2008, On Continuous-Time Markov Processes in Bargaining. Economics Letters 100,
p.280-283.
19.
Harold
Houba, 2007, Alternating Offers in Economic Environments. Economics Letters 96,
p.316-324.
20.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, Different Time Preferences and Non-Stationary
Contracts in Negotiations, Economics
Letters 91, p.273-279.
21.
Harold
Houba and Quan Wen, 2006, On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely
Informed States. Economics Bulletin 3,
p.1-6.
22.
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.
23.
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.
24.
Xander Tieman, Gerard van der Laan and Harold Houba, 2001,
Bertrand Price Competition in a Social Environment, De Economist 149,
p.33-51.
25.
Harold
Houba and Gijsbert van Lomwel,
2001, Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model of Wage Bargaining, Economic Theory 17,
p.81-99.
26.
Harold
Houba and Wilko Bolt, 2000, Holdouts, Backdating and Wage Negotiations, European Economic Review 44,
p.1783-1800.
27.
Harold
Houba, Koos Sneek and Felix Várdy,
2000, Can Negotiations Prevent Fish Wars? Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control 24,
p.1265-1280.
28.
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.
29.
Harold
Houba, Xander Tieman and
Rene Brinksma, 1998, The Nash Bargaining Solution for
Decision Weight Utility Functions, Economics
Letters 60, p.41-48.
30.
Wilko
Bolt and Harold Houba, 1998, Strategic Bargaining in the Variable Threat Game, Economic Theory 11,
p. 57-77.
31.
Harold
Houba and Elaine Bennett, 1997, Odd Man Out: The Proposal Making Model, Journal of Mathematical Economics 28,
p.375-396.
32.
Harold
Houba, 1997, The Policy Bargaining Model, Journal
of Mathematical Economics 28,
p.1-27.
33.
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.
34.
Harold
Houba, 1993, An Alternative Proof of Uniqueness in Non-Cooperative Bargaining, Economics Letters 41,
p. 253-256.
35.
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, 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
P. Jean-Jacques
Herings and Harold Houba, 2015, Costless Delay in Negotiations, TI Discussion
Paper 15-010.
Harold Houba and Quan
Wen, 2016/7, Closed-Form Solutions for the Extreme Equilibria in a Class of
Negotiation Games. TI Discussion Paper xx-xxx.
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,
Yukihiko Funaki and Evgenia Motchenkova, 2012, Market
Power in Bilateral Oligopoly Markets with Nonexpandable
Infrastructures. TI
Discussion Paper 12-139.
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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