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Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian game theorist. He is a Professor of
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at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation,
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. He did his schooling at the St. Columba's School, Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in
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from
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and B.Sc. (with honors in
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) from the
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. His research areas of interest are
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and
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. He has published, among others, in ''
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'', '' Games and Economic Behavior'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. He is a Fellow of '' The Econometric Society'',
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and a member of the council of the ''Game Theory Society''.


Academic positions

From 1975 until 1978, Dubey was an assistant professor in the School of Organization and Management and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. In 1978, he became an associate professor at Yale, a position he held until 1984. In 1979, Dubey was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the
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. Throughout 1982, he was a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. In 1984, Dubey became an economics professor at the
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and taught there for one year. In the following year, he taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Institute for Decision Sciences. In 1986, Dubey entered his current position as the leading professor and co-director for the Center for Game Theory in Economics at the university. Additionally, in 2005, he became a visiting professor at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale.


Selected publications

*"On the Uniqueness of the Shapley Value" (1975) ''International Journal of Game Theory'' Vol. 4, pp. 131–139. *"Trade and Prices in a Closed Economy with Exogenous Uncertainty and Different Levels of Information" (1977) (with M. Shubik) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 45, pp. 1657–1680. *"Some Properties of the Banzhaf Power Index" (1979) (with L.S. Shapley) ''Mathematics of Operations Research'' Vol. 4, pp. 99–131. *"Nash Equilibria of Market Games: Finiteness and Inefficiency" (1980) ''Journal of Economic Theory'' Vol. 22, pp. 363–376. *"Price-Quantity Strategic Market Games" (1982) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 50, pp. 111–126. *"Payoffs in Non-atomic Economies: an Axiomatic Approach" (1984) (with A. Neyman) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 52, pp. 1129–1150. *"Noncooperative General Exchange with a Continuum of Traders" (1994) (with L.S. Shapley) ''Journal of Mathematical Economics'' Vol. 23, pp. 253–293. *"Competitive Pooling: Rothschild-Stiglitz Reconsidered" (2002) (with J. Geanakoplos) ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' Vol. 117, pp. 1529–1570. *"From Nash to Walras via Shapley-Shubik" (2003) (with J. Geanakoplos) ''Journal of Mathematical Economics'' Vol. 39, pp. 391–400. *"Learning with Perfect Information" (2004) (with O. Haimanko) ''Games and Economic Behavior'' Vol. 46, pp. 304–324. *"Default and Punishment in General Equilibrium" (2005) (with J. Geanakoplos & M. Shubik) ''Econometrica'' Vol. 73, pp. 1–37.


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External links


Webpage from ''Stony Brook University''Personal Webpage
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