Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein (born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979, in both mathematics and economics. He is currently (2006) a professor of economics with the School of Economics at Tel Aviv University and with the Department of Economics at New York University.

In 1982, he published "Perfect equilibrium in a bargaining model",cite journal
author = Rubinstein, Ariel
year = 1982
title = Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model
journal = Econometrica
volume = 50
issue = 1
pages = 97–109
doi = 10.2307/1912531
url = http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/papers/11.pdf] an important contribution to the theory of bargaining. It models two-person bargaining as an extensive game with perfect information in which the players alternate offers. A key assumption is that the players are impatient. The main result gives conditions under which the game has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium and characterizes this equilibrium.

He was elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (1995), a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Sciences (1994) and the American Economic Association (1995). In 1985 he was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society, [ [http://www.econometricsociety.org/fellows.asp Welcome to the website of The Econometric Society An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics ] ] and served as its president in 2004. [ [http://www.econometricsociety.org/pastpres.asp Welcome to the website of The Econometric Society An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics ] ] In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Tilburg University. [ [http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/university/achievements/doctorates/2002/rubinstein/ Tilburg University - Prof. Ariel Rubinstein ] ] He has received the Bruno Prize (2000), the Israel Prize (2002), the Nemmers Prize (2004), [ [http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/awards/nemmers/ Nemmers Prizes, Awards, Office of the Provost, Northwestern University ] ] [ [http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/awards/nemmers/nemprecon.html#rubinstein The presentation of Ariel Rubinstein for the 2004 Nemmers Prize in Economics.] ] and the Emet Prize (2006). [http://www.emetprize.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=159&CategoryID=123&Page=1]

Books

* [http://ww2.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/bm/ Bargaining and Markets] , with Martin J. Osborne, Academic Press 1990
* A Course in Game Theory, with Martin J. Osborne, MIT Press, 1994.
* [http://gametheory.tau.ac.il/el/getPDF.asp?Pfile=br.pdf Modeling Bounded Rationality] , MIT Press, 1998.
* [http://gametheory.tau.ac.il/el/E.pdf Economics and Language] , Cambridge University Press, 2000
* [http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/Rubinstein2005.pdf Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent] , Princeton University Press, 2006

References

External links

* [http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/ Personal Web site]
* [http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/nash-lecture/nash-lecture.html Nash lecture]